Bequest will establish funds, professorships
Joseph Frederick Hoffman, the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale School of Medicine, has left a $9 million bequest to the school. His gift will establish several funds, including the Elena Citkowitz Professorship of Internal Medicine for a lipidology expert, the Joseph F. Hoffman Professorship of Physiological Sciences, the Peter N. Herbert Professorship of Medicine, the Joseph F. Hoffman Fellowship Fund to provide financial aid for graduate students in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, the Joseph F. Hoffman Ophthalmology Fund, and the Joseph F. Hoffman Endowed Fund for Medicine. Hoffman’s bequest also includes support for the Medical Historical Library.
“We are grateful for Dr. Joseph Hoffman’s extraordinary bequest,” said Nancy J. Brown ’81, the Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Yale School of Medicine. “His contributions to the field of physiology and passionate support for Yale School of Medicine will continue to impact future generations of students, researchers, and patients.”
Grant will support interdisciplinary autism research
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) was awarded a $27.7 million grant from Aligning Research to Impact Autism to develop noninvasive functional communication methods through large-scale brain modeling in autism spectrum disorder. Led by Murat Günel ’94Grd, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, Sterling Professor of Neurosurgery, and professor of genetics and of neuroscience at YSM, the interdisciplinary research project aims to leverage state-of-the-art technologies and cross-departmental expertise to develop large brain models that will serve as the basis for personalized, circuit-based therapies. The project brings together more than 30 individuals from many Yale departments, schools, and centers to ensure that each aspect of autism—from neural circuitry to behavioral manifestations to ethics—is examined through multiple lenses.
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