On a beautiful fall day approximately 130 postdocs and those who support them wound their way around tables filled with ice cream and toppings, enjoying the jazz music provided by the band assembled by Dr. Rafael Ortega. This celebration, held on Monday, September 19 on Talbot Green, marked National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The ice cream […]
While conventional wisdom holds that early diagnosis is good, Dartmouth Professor H. Gilbert Welch views it as a major problem for modern medicine, with myriad social, medical and economic implications. In his new book, “Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health,” Welch and co-authors Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin write about the hazards of looking too hard for illnesses in healthy people, including additional procedures that carry no benefit but may cause harm, higher health-care costs and psychological detriments.
Have you wondered how to develop creative ideas into marketable products? Have you wondered whether the molecules you are working on in the lab might be turned into drugs to effectively treat disease? The Boston University CTSI is pleased to announce the first in a series of seminars that explore Drug and Device Development. The […]
A team of researchers from Boston University’s School of Medicine (BUSM) and College of Engineering (COE) have been awarded a five-year, $4.8 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop a low-cost, multiplexed virus detection platform. Based on technologies developed with seed funding from Boston University’s Photonics Center, the resulting diagnostic platform should be […]
Six student representatives from GSDM attended the ASDA Eastern Regional Meeting in Buffalo, New York, September 23-25. The group took part in lectures, seminars, and advocacy training alongside students from thirteen other dental schools. The conference focused on leadership development, advocacy training, and involvement in organized dentistry. Featured speakers included ADA President-elect Dr. William Calnon, […]
The BUMC Flow Cytometry Core Facility is holding the annual autumn training seminar to introduce new users to flow cytometry. This seminar, “How to run flow cytometry experiments” will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the BUSM Instructional Building in room R103 from 1 – 2 p.m. It will be presented by Flow Cytometry Core […]
In 2006, Massachusetts enacted a pioneering health care reform law that promised universal health insurance coverage. State policymakers jettisoned a piece of this landmark commitment in 2009 when they barred more than 30,000 low-income legal immigrants from part of the health care reform program that subsidizes health insurance premiums for those with very limited means. […]
BU researchers have developed a way to test treatments for sickle cell disease—a genetic disorder of the red blood cells—by working with stem cells grown from a small vial of patients’ blood. “It’s a clinical trial in a test tube,” says molecular biologist George J. Murphy, a School of Medicine assistant professor of medicine and a codirector of BU’s Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM).
The Annual Infectious Diseases Symposium, “Inflammation in Disease Pathogenesis” will be held Saturday, Oct. 1. This symposium brings together researchers from regional institutions with an interest in inflammation and disease. Four outstanding speakers will present their work with sufficient time for discussion and informal interactions among participants. The goal is to facilitate collaborations within the […]
Myron Nevins PERIO 67 presented a lecture titled, “A Paradigm Shift from Autogenous Bone to Tissue Engineering,” on September 13. The lecture was attended by residents and faculty of the Department of Periodontology & Oral Biology, as well as GSDM alums and other faculty members. The lecture was part of the Department’s endowed annual lectureship, […]