Reducing the number of Afghan child brides will require policy changes, legal initiatives and a far-reaching public awareness campaign, according to a research team led by a BU School of Public Health professor. Although the overthrow of Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2002 led to a number of human rights reforms, at least half of […]
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, cardiovascular scientist, clinician and teacher, presented the first annual Howard D. Kirshenbaum, MD, Lecture to the medical campus community including members of Dr. Kirshenbaum’s family on Wednesday, April 6. Loscalzo is the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; […]
Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD, a Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Biochemistry and Director, Pulmonary Center at BUSM, was recently awarded a five-year grant valued at $410,194 per year from the National Institutes of Health for his project titled Cytokine-stimulated systemic defenses during pneumococcal pneumonia. Dr. Mizgerd and colleagues will be testing the hypotheses that macrophages […]
Research Associate Professor Dr. Sok-Ja Janket is back from the 6th International Symposium on Diabetes and Pregnancy in Salzburg, Austria. She was one of just two dentists in attendance (most attendees were OB-GYNs) and her poster was honored as one of the most innovative by the section chair and other dignitaries. Her project, “Salivary Immunoglobulin […]
After a dozen years probing for work-related sickness among nuclear weapons workers, Lewis Pepper can say he’s made a difference. Prodded in part by his work, Congress a decade ago compensated more than 28,000 workers for a variety of illnesses. Now Pepper, a School of Public Health assistant professor of environmental health, is pushing to […]
In an era of earthquakes, tsunamis, oil spills, mine explosions and wars, public health professionals and journalists often find themselves drawn to the same scene, grappling with the same issues – sometimes collaborating and other times colliding. These complex interactions are the focus of a unique, one-day conference at BU, “When Disaster Strikes: Reporting and […]
The 2011 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) General Session took place in San Diego, California from March 12-16. At the Session the ADEA Gies Foundation honored Assistant Dean for Community Partnerships & Extramural Affairs Dr. Michelle Henshaw with the 2011 William J. Gies Award for Innovation in the Dental Educator category. Dr. Henshaw was selected […]
Darrell Kotton, Gustavo Mostoslavsky, and George Murphy roll up their sleeves and proudly display small oval marks on their forearms. Biopsies from which the medical researchers harvested their own skin cells to create—well, actually the sky may be the limit. “Pretty much all the biology books are wrong now,” says Murphy, a School of Medicine […]
Nadia Krasner, a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Medical Nutrition Sciences, has been selected to receive a $5,000 fellowship through the American Society of Nutrition. The award recognizes Ms. Krasner’s excellence in her proposed project Does GLP-1 Mediated Activation of AMPK have an Anti-Inflammatory Effect in Vascular Endothelium. The grant, sponsored by Pfizer, […]
Nominated by their department chairs 25 junior faculty members from the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) participated in the Emerging Leaders Forum. The two-day event, organized by the BUMC Faculty Affairs Office under the leadership of Mya Mangawang, PhD, assistant provost for Faculty Affairs, focused on exploring and developing the characteristics of highly effective leaders. The faculty participants were nominated by their Chairs based on their record of effectiveness, innovation, reliability and capacity to energize and motivate others.