https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-rss/?orgId=110332&title=Latest+News A selection of the latest research, academic, and other newsworthy developments at Aksoy Lab en-us Copyright 2026 Yale School of Medicine Thu, 14 May 2026 19:06:10 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/experts-discuss-global-health-strategies-at-second-annual-symposium/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/experts-discuss-global-health-strategies-at-second-annual-symposium/ The Yale Institute for Global Health hosted its Second Annual Global Health Symposium on April 11, 2025, at the Yale School of Public Health. Topics included the important role academic institutions play in advocating for global health amidst the current policy environment, and how multidisciplinary academic and research partnerships at Yale support global health. Wed, 07 May 2025 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/yigh-faculty-networks-host-third-annual-vector-borne-and-zoonotic-diseases-symposium/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/yigh-faculty-networks-host-third-annual-vector-borne-and-zoonotic-diseases-symposium/ Faculty Network Spotlight: 3rd Annual Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Symposium  On Friday, February 21st, two YIGH Faculty Networks – the Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases and MalarYale – hosted the third annual Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Symposium. The initiative, led by Brian Weiss, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology and Lecturer (Microbial Diseases), Chantal Vogels, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), and Serap Aksoy, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), included 22 presentations across four sessions and featured three keynote speakers: Dr. Photini Sinnis, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Albert Ko, MD, Yale School of Public Health, and Jeff Powell, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine. Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/new-initiative-explores-innovative-financing-solutions-for-improving-ecosystems-and-public-health-in-africa/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/new-initiative-explores-innovative-financing-solutions-for-improving-ecosystems-and-public-health-in-africa/ A groundbreaking new pan-African initiative supported in part by a Yale Planetary Solutions grant will explore innovative financing solutions for the co-management of ecosystems and public health in Africa. Wed, 14 Aug 2024 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/spring-2024-spark-award-recipients-announced/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/spring-2024-spark-award-recipients-announced/ The Yale Institute for Global Health has selected Nadir Ijaz, MD, MHS; Bernardo Lombo, MD; and Brian Weiss, PhD to receive the Spring 2024 Global Health Spark Award. Each recipient will receive an award of up to $10,000. The Global Health Spark Award aims to provide initial funding to support global health research initiatives and partnerships among YIGH-affiliated faculty. Fri, 19 Jul 2024 04:00:00 Z https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/parasites-and-plagues/108670?xid=nl_secondopinion_2024-02-13&eun=g2209192d0r https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/parasites-and-plagues/108670?xid=nl_secondopinion_2024-02-13&eun=g2209192d0r An infinitely easier oral treatment for East African trypanosomiasis, commonly called sleeping sickness, is now available. But YSPH Professor Serap Askoy, an international expert on the disease, is concerned that rising temperatures due to climate change may increase the risk of transmission of the disease. Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/national-academy-of-sciences-elects-new-members-from-yale/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/national-academy-of-sciences-elects-new-members-from-yale/ School of Medicine Professor Lieping Chen and School of Public Health Professor Serap Aksoy are among four Yale faculty in NAS's class of 2021 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/a-tsetse-flys-bite-can-be-fatal-new-ysph-research-takes-a-step-toward-ending-that/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/a-tsetse-flys-bite-can-be-fatal-new-ysph-research-takes-a-step-toward-ending-that/ YSPH researchers have identified a new family of proteins that could become promising vaccine candidates for curbing the threat posed by the bite of the tsetse fly. Thu, 30 Jan 2020 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/gut-bacteria-neutralizes-disease-carrying-tsetse-flies/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/gut-bacteria-neutralizes-disease-carrying-tsetse-flies/ Yale School of Public Health Research Scientist Brian Weiss, Ph.D., has identified a bacterium that can colonize the gut of tsetse flies and help stop the spread of African trypanosomes, the parasites responsible for causing human sleeping sickness, a potentially fatal disease that threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/benson-wachira-joins-the-aksoy-lab/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/benson-wachira-joins-the-aksoy-lab/ Benson Wachira joins the Aksoy lab as a postgraduate student from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Benson will be working on the transcriptomic analysis of tsetse fly olfactory responses. Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/introducing-daniela-schneider-1/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/introducing-daniela-schneider-1/ Daniela Schneider joins the Aksoy Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Fri, 17 Nov 2017 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/erick-returns-to-kenya/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/erick-returns-to-kenya/ Erick Awuoche returns to Kenya! Mon, 14 Aug 2017 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/introducing-mehmet-karakus/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/introducing-mehmet-karakus/ Mehmet Karakus  joins the Askoy Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Fri, 11 Aug 2017 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/introducing-maria-onyango/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/introducing-maria-onyango/ Maria Onyango joins the Aksoy Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Tue, 08 Aug 2017 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/xiao-li-being/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/xiao-li-being/ Aksoy lab wishes good luck to Xiao-Li Being who has recently joined the Buchon laboratory at Cornell University. Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/aksoy-lab-receives-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-grand-challenges-award-to-develop-metacyclic-vaccines-for-trypanosomiasis-control/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/aksoy-lab-receives-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-grand-challenges-award-to-develop-metacyclic-vaccines-for-trypanosomiasis-control/ Our proposal addresses Human and Animal African Trypanosomosis (HAT and AAT, respectively), which are neglected diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/aksoy-named-editor-of-journal-on-tropical-medicine/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/aksoy-named-editor-of-journal-on-tropical-medicine/ Serap Aksoy, an authority on vector biology and the pathogen that causes sleeping sickness, has been named the lead editor of a scientific journal dedicated to neglected tropical diseases. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/how-do-you-stop-the-tsetse-fly-from-transmitting-sleeping-sickness-a-host-protein-may-provide-the-answer/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/how-do-you-stop-the-tsetse-fly-from-transmitting-sleeping-sickness-a-host-protein-may-provide-the-answer/ Human African Trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is one of the deadlier diseases in sub–Saharan Africa. It is caused by the African trypanosome parasite and is transmitted to humans through the bite of a tsetse fly. Few methods currently exist to combat this tropical disease that afflicts tens of thousands of people annually and also attacks livestock, preventing many rural poor from achieving even subsistence–level farming. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/insights-into-insect-symbiosis-could-have-implications-for-humans/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/aksoy/news-article/insights-into-insect-symbiosis-could-have-implications-for-humans/ The gut of just about any organism is surely an unpleasant place, often teeming with a battery of hostile enzymes. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:00:00 Z