Author: Lisa Brown

Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Pharmaceuticals Found in Wastewater

Pharmaceuticals are an emerging contaminant for aquatic ecosystems due to discharge of treated wastewater effluent. Using zebrafish as a model organism, Dr. Joanna Wilson has been testing the developmental, reproductive and transcriptional impacts of four common, environmentally relevant pharmaceuticals. Several of these pharmaceuticals are known to have reproductive side effects in humans. Acetaminophen (pain reliever), […]

GSDM Student Saves Life on Transatlantic Flight

Mohammed Nadershah OMFS 11 was recently a passenger on a Lufthansa Boston to Frankfurt, Germany transatlantic flight when disaster struck. An announcement came through the cabin asking for any doctors on board to help with a medical emergency. Armed with the experience he had gained as a resident in the Boston University Henry M. Goldman […]

Oct. 1 Bicknell Lecture, "Controlling Health Care Costs: Your Money or Your Life?"

What will happen to the cost of health care under the Obama Administration’s new national health care law? Hear leading experts discuss this topic and others regarding controlling health care costs as part of the 2010 William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health “Controlling Health Care Costs: Your Money or Your Life?” at Boston University School of Public Health.

The event will be held on Friday, Oct. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon, on the first floor auditorium of 670 Albany St., on the Boston University Medical Campus. A continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Establishment of Office of Post-doctoral Affairs (OPA)

This message was sent to all faculty, students and staff on BUMC on Friday, September 24, 2010 Today is National Post-Doc Appreciation day and I am delighted to announce that we are launching an office on the medical campus that will be focused on support of this critical constituency of Boston University. The Office of […]

BU Poised to Impact Cancer Research: Cross-campus collaboration nets $2 million NIH nanomedicine grant

The National Cancer Institute’s Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer has tapped a multidisciplinary research team, comprising members of the Charles River and Medical Campuses, to launch a training center to help grow the next generation of nanomedicine researchers in cancer. The announcement comes with a five-year, $2 million grant. An offshoot of nanotechnology, nanomedicine is […]

Evans Center Research Retreat Day: Collaborative Research and Future Growth, Sept. 20

The Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research is holding “Retreat Day: Collaborative Research and Future Growth” on Monday, Sept. 20. Evans Center Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARC) Directors will present summaries of ARC research achievements and plans from this first year. ARCs include investigators from the medical campus and across campuses who share common interests in […]

BUSM Lecture Honors Victim of 9/11 Tragedy

  The ninth annual Sue Kim Hanson Lecture in Immunology will be held at noon on Friday, Sept. 17, in BUSM’s Keefer Auditorium. The annual lecture honors Sue Kim Hanson, MA, PhD ’02, a former researcher in BUSM’s Pulmonary Center. Hanson, her husband and their daughter were passengers on one of the airplanes that struck […]