Shoes and bras. Those were the two tangibles that Mary Jane England recalled about her time spent treating patients in state psychiatric institutions – long before she would go on to chair an Institute of Medicine committee charged with exploring ways that mental health and substance-use care could be improved. The men’s shoes: Ordered in […]
Boston University’s Center for Global Health and Development, and the Department of International Health are co-sponsoring the screening “Foul Water and Fiery Serpent” a new documentary following community health workers in Ghana and Sudan through the eradication of the disabling Guinea worm parasite.
BUSM will present the 10th annual Sue Kim Hanson Lecture in Immunology at noon, Friday, Sept.16, in the School of Medicine’s Keefer Auditorium. The annual lecture honors Sue Kim Hanson, MA, and PhD ’02, a former researcher in BUSM’s Pulmonary Center. Hanson, her husband and their daughter were passengers on one of the airplanes that […]
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Office of Technology Development (OTD) invite you to learn about a new translational medicine collaboration opportunity with BU and other leading institutions, sponsored by Pfizer Centers for Therapeutic Innovation. A Town Hall meeting with Pfizer representatives will be held on Wednesday Sept. 28, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., […]
Pesticide science has been given the important task of providing human society the food, fiber and public health that it requires in an environmental sound, sustainable and affordable manner. One of the main challenges that we face in obtaining these goals is pesticide resistance. Join J. Marshall Clark, PhD, Professor and Director, Massachusetts Pesticide Analysis […]
Researchers from both the Medical and Charles River campuses are invited to the Annual Research Day sponsored by the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research on Sept. 20. There will be presentations of innovative research and discussion topics such as the promotion of inter- and multi- disciplinary research at BU, new tools and approaches to […]
The 2011 Massachusetts Operation Stand Down was held on August 26 and 27, at the IBEW 103 in Dorchester. GSDM, under the leadership of CHP Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri, has volunteered at this event for several years running, but this year they collaborated with Dr. Al Filzer and Healthcare for the Homeless to provide the best services possible to the homeless veterans in attendance. The group screened 143 veterans over the course of the two-day event and provided denture cleaning and referrals for oral health issues when needed.
BUSM Professor Aubrey Milunsky, MD, DSc, has penned a book focused on new DNA tests that have dramatically expanded the ability to avoid, prevent, diagnose, predict and treat many genetic disorders. He recounts the lessons learned from many families who benefitted from new advances in genetics, or could have, if they had only known. The […]
The Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) established the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) in January 2011. OPAs main objective is to coordinate non-research related training for postdocs and to provide opportunities to develop areas of professional development. The office strives to assist postdocs in their careers and to help improve their job satisfaction.
Deborah Anderson, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and microbiology at BUSM is co-leading a new study funded by a five-year $13.3 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Anderson will investigate the vaginal use of human monoclonal antibodies manufactured transiently in tobacco plants (called “plantibodies”) to prevent sexually transmitted […]