Access to effective antibiotics is critical to public health, but antibiotic resistance threatens to undermine many of the health gains from the past 60 years. Life in a post-antibiotic era would be rife with infectious diseases and many modern surgical procedures would be impossible. With that risk in mind, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) […]
Collaboration Will Accelerate Groundbreaking Research on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) announced today that it will collaborate with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) to support the Center’s efforts to advance the study of the effects of repetitive brain trauma […]
Robert Saper, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, will give a lecture open to the entire BU Medical Campus Community entitled “The Healer’s Art: Exploring the Human Dimension of Medicine” on Monday January 11, 2010 from 11:00 am to 12 noon in the Medical School Building, Room L-112. Dr. Saper’s lecture will touch upon […]
Boston University Academy sophomore Max Wallack, 13, of Natick, Mass., a recently named 2009 Build-A-Bear Huggable Hero, donated his $2,500 award to the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Established in 1996, the Alzheimer’s Disease Center conducts cutting-edge research and strives to enhance clinical care for Alzheimer’s disease patients and their families. Wallack is the founder […]
Boston University will be hosting the eighth international conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) from June 28-30. This is the first time COMET will be held in the US. Dr. Barbara Bokhour, associate professor in the Health Policy and Management department at the School of Public Health and research health psychologist at the Center […]
Fourth-year DMD student Komail Abbas presented the second grand rounds of the 2009-2010 school year, based on a treatment plan he developed for a patient he treated during his externship rotation at Dorchester House from July 27 to October 2. Abbas’ externship preceptor was Dr. Thomas Ricci. Abbas’ patient was a 37-year old Cape Verdean […]
Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other flow cytometry users on the BUMCare invited to attend a free introductory seminar on how to analyze flow cytometry experiments. The BUMC Flow Cytometry Core Facility is offering this seminar to help train new users in FlowJo software, which is a very valuable tool for handling multiparameter flow data. […]
For more than 20 years, researchers from BUSM, under the direction of Mary Jo Murnane, have been working to identify and characterize markers that can either diagnose cancer at an early stage or better predict cancer outcomes. Such tumor markers may also prove useful in the design of new cancer therapies. The International Journal of […]
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Student Research Group (SRG) met with student research groups from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine on Friday, November 13 at Harvard. Two students from each school presented their research during the event. From GSDM Sheede Khalil DMD 12 […]
BU’s Center for Global Health and Development, based at the School of Public Health, has won an $8.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project that will test simple, low-cost methods that could save many of the 4 million newborns who die each year in the world’s poorest countries. The […]