Save the date, May 17! Join Howard C. Bauchner, MD, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications as he speaks on “My First Year at JAMA.” Dr. Bauchner was named Editor-in Chief on July 1, 2011, after serving as a faculty member of pediatrics and community health sciences on the Medical Campus for 25 years. He also served as the vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at BMC/BUSM and assistant dean, alumni affairs and continuing medical education at BUSM.
Beginning in September, BU students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in a year of creative discussion and action on the theme of RESILIENCE as part of the College of Fine Arts Keyword Initiative. Each year a new keyword is selected and this is the second year of the project. Resilience is elasticity, buoyancy, […]
Boston University was well represented at the Emory Global Health Case Competition on March 31. The team of six included a medical student, an MD/MBA student, three MBA/MPH students and a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, placed second out of a roster of 23. This was the first year that BU has participated. The team […]
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, it will kill about 160,000 people in 2012, more than the next four cancers combined. Avrum Spira wants to lower these numbers by diagnosing it earlier and preventing its development. For the last decade, Spira, a School of Medicine […]
Join The Mental Blocks, a band composed of Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine faculty and students on Saturday, April 28, at a concert to benefit the Boston Medicine Center (BMC) Food Pantry and Demonstration Kitchen. BMC is the only hospital in Boston with a Food Demonstration Kitchen, which promotes nutrition and healthy eating. […]
Chair of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Associate Dean for Hospital Affairs Dr. Pushkar Mehra was inducted as an active member of the American Society of Temporomandibular Joint Surgeons (ASTMJS) at the 2012 annual meeting, held in Naples, Florida in March. Membership in this highly selective organization is by invite-only and is restricted to only […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have derived a population of pure lung and thyroid progenitor cells in vitro that successfully mimic the developmental milestones of lung and thyroid tissue formation. The research, which will be published in the April 6 edition of the journal Cell Stem Cell, […]
The last of the 2012 Spring Thematic Seminar Series lectures “Mitochondria: Engines of Life, Drivers of Disease” will be held on Tuesday, April 10. Featured speaker, Richard J. Youle, PhD, Senior Investigator, Chief, Biochemistry Section, NIH, NINDS in Bethesda, Md., will be speaking on “Mitochondrial Quality Control and Parkinson’s Disease”. Dr. Youle’s lab is exploring […]
The Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is holding the Third Annual Translational Research Symposium on Thursday, April 26, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. The event will be held at the Boston University Metcalf Trustees Center, located inside the John and Kathryn Silber Administrative Center, One Silber Way, 9th Floor on the Charles River Campus.
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered the regulation and functional significance of the acute phase response during a lung infection. The findings, which will be published in the May edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, demonstrate that the liver responds in order to increase defenses in the blood that prevent […]