Author: Lisa Brown

Dental School Unveils New Albany Street Entrance

It was a momentous return from Intersession for the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM), which officially opened its new Patient and Visitor entrance located at 635 Albany St. as of 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2. The new entrance now is the school’s official address. The opening of the patient and visitor entrance […]

Interdisciplinary BUMC Team Investigates Dialysis Access Malfunction

Patients with chronic kidney disease frequently develop stenosis of their intrathoracic large veins (i.e., central venous stenosis), which jeopardizes their prospects of having a functional dialysis access, while the current modality to diagnose this complication is fraught with inaccuracies. An interdisciplinary team of clinicians, biomedical engineers and scientists, including members of the Evans Center IBR […]

NEIDL Researchers Create Tool to Study New Virus

Could help determine if Ebola-like LLOV can cause disease in humans In recent years, traces of new zoonotic viruses—pathogens that live in animals and could potentially cause infectious diseases in humans—have been discovered in bats, fish, and other species around the world. But scientists have been stumped in their search for the complete genome for […]

100 BUMC Students Attend Diversity Mixer

On Wednesday, Aug. 8, approximately 100 students participated in a Medical Campus student diversity mixer. The event allowed underrepresented minority students from the three schools on the medical campus, Medicine, Public Health and Dental Medicine, to come together to mingle, share ideas and build relationships. BUSM Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion Dr. Rafael Ortega, […]

Ebola Research Begins at NEIDL

After years of review, lab receives first BSL-4 pathogen Eight months after receiving final approval from the Boston Public Health Commission to conduct research at Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4), Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) has begun work with its first Level-4 pathogen, the Ebola virus. “This is clearly an important step for the NEIDL,” […]

BUMC Honors Tom Moore, MD

On Monday, April 23, faculty, staff, students, family and friends gathered to honor Tom Moore, MD, for his 17 years of service to Boston University. Dr. Moore will be stepping down from his roles as BUMC Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Office of Human Research on July 1, but will continue to work […]

SPH Hosts Climate Change Symposium

Policymakers, journalists discuss cities, the media, and climate solutions The signs are grim, and grimly familiar: 2016 was the hottest year on record since 1880, future warming is inevitable, and by the end of the century, Boston may see entire summers with daytime temperatures over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Extreme rainfall is forcing migration worldwide. West […]