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.
Recently three fourth-year DMD students from GSDM, Ali Mahin Arastu, Gulia Muca, and Maria Honorado, traveled to Rio San Juan, Nicaragua with the San Juan Rio Relief Organization to bring oral health outreach to the poverty-stricken region. Learn what their experience was like from this collection of videos that they filmed during the trip: Clinic […]
Black toddlers are five times less likely than their white counterparts to receive early-intervention services for developmental delays — a disparity that should be addressed by clinicians working proactively with families, according to a study led by a BU School of Public Health researcher. In a study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral […]