At BUSM 140 students anxiously awaited the results of Match Day. The annual event marks the moment in which students around the country learn which residency programs they will be attending and where they will spend the next three to five years of their lives following graduation. Within seconds of the noon deadline, the future […]
For nearly 40 years, Catherine E. Costello has advanced the application of mass spectrometry to biomolecules, especially carbohydrates and glycoproteins. Costello is a professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics at BUSM and founding director of both the school’s mass spectrometry resource and its cardiovascular proteomics center. “Early on, the scientific world pooh-poohed MS for structural […]
Several Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) students showcased their research at the AADR Annual Meeting held March 3 to 6 in Washington, D.C. Sheede Khalil DMD 12, who worked with Professor and Director of the Predoctoral Research Program Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska, was the winner of an AADR/Johnson & Johnson Healthcare […]
Sixteen months after a panel of experts issued a landmark report affirming that exposure to toxic chemicals may have affected thousands of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to re-examine the disability claims of veterans suffering from ailments they blame on their war service. “This is really […]
The New England Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) has awarded Boston University School of Public Health student Grace Yang with a scholarship to attend its annual conference. Yang, who is concentrating in maternal and child health in the Community Health Sciences Department, will receive $1,500 to help pay for registration and travel […]
On Saturday, March 6, students, residents, and faculty from the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Department of Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials partnered with Division of Community Health Programs (CHP) Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri to provide dental outreach at a Cancer Awareness Health Fair. The fair was held at the Iglesia Cristiana Nueve Vida Church in East Boston and was sponsored by UMass Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Latino Health Insurance Program, and the host church.
Adam Rose MD, MSc, FACP, an assistant professor of medicine at BUSM and a core investigator at the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research at the Bedford VA Medical Center, has been named a 2009 Pier M. Mannucci Young Investigator prizewinner. Rose received this award for his article titled “Warfarin dose management affects […]
In the spirit of Lemuel Murlin, the BU president who in the early 1900s envisioned a university “in the heart of the city, in the service of the city,” the BU Alumni Association is sponsoring its first Global Day of Service, giving alumni and others the chance to reach out to their communities, in unison, […]
Professor and Director of the Predoctoral Research Program Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska and her research team have made an important advance in the understanding of how epithelial tissues achieve functional maturity. Formation of mature tissues involves the establishment of stable cell-cell contacts between adjacent cells through the organization of different adhesion complexes. These include E-cadherin-containing adherens […]
Showcase your research and meet other investigators who, like you, are pursuing innovative studies that will one day bring basic science to the bedside and beyond. Thursday, April 1 from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm 595 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, Mass. The Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute is offering a one-day research […]