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Yale Cancer Center faculty and trainees joined over 22,000 cancer researchers from around the world to share the latest advances in cancer science and medicine earlier this week in San Diego for the 117th American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting.

Irina Esterlis, PhD, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professors of psychiatry at YSM, have been awarded a $4.2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate how menopause affects brain function, mood, and cognition.

The paper “Effects of Sweeteners and Cinnamon Flavor on Oral Nicotine Choice Behaviors,” published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, has been selected as the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Best Paper published in the Basic Science category in 2025. The paper’s first author is Deniz Bagdas, DVM, PhD, research scientist in psychiatry. Nii Addy, PhD, Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, is senior author.

Find Yale Pediatrics at the 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting in Boston, MA!

A fashion trend no one asked for is playing out across magazine covers, music videos and social media — where cigarettes are being styled as edgy, not alarming. Grace Kong, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, discusses the trend in Yahoo! Life.

The FDA’s guidance doesn’t mention the potential toxicity of additional flavors, but that was a concern raised by both Sven-Eric Jordt, PhD, associate professor adjunct of psychiatry, and Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, who together co-authored a 2023 paper on the subject.

Yale School of Medicine's E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS, tested an adaptive, team-based strategy to better integrate tobacco treatment into HIV clinics.

Grace Kong, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, discusses the assertion by some that smoking has "become cool again" in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Gabriel P.A. Costa, MD, left, and Joao P. De Aquino, MD, right, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a systematic review and meta-analysis in Molecular Psychiatry of 63 preclinical and human studies evaluating endocannabinoid system modulators for alcohol use disorder.