The Pulmonary Center is proud to present an “Airway Development and Disease Symposium” honoring Jerome S. Brody, MD, for his 23 years of leadership as Pulmonary Center Director, in Bakst Auditorium (L101) on Wednesday morning, Dec. 1, beginning at 9 a.m. Three distinguished visitors with concentrations in stem cells and development, genomics and cancer, and […]
Join Deborah Blacker, MD, ScD, as she presents the talk “Defining the Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotype” at the BUSPH Public Health Forum on Wednesday, Dec. 8 at noon in L-112. Blacker is the director of the Gerontology Research Unit at MGH and is an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. Her primary […]
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Division of Community Health Programs (CHP) Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri and a team of student volunteers provided outreach to adult learners at the Notre Dame Educational Center (NDEC) in South Boston on November 16. The outreach efforts involved health promotion, education, screenings, and […]
For cancer researcher David Sherr, the fight against the disease isn’t just professional. It’s personal. Sherr’s wife died from multiple myeloma a dozen years ago. Now the School of Public Health environmental health professor, Sherr, who is also a professor of pathology and laboratory science at BU School of Medicine, has received a BU Ignition Award to seek a breakthrough in treating and preventing breast cancer, one of his fields of research.
Herbert Schilder Professor in Endodontics and Director of the Postdoctoral Program in Endodontics Dr. George Huang hosted a reception to welcome the new and returning residents of the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Postdoctoral Program in Endodontics on Friday, November 5, at The Castle. Dr. Huang addressed the crowd, thanking […]
Join Sherry Pagoto as she presents the talk “Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program in Clinical and Community Settings: Triumphs and Challenges” at the BUSPH Public Health Forum on Wednesday, November 17 at noon. The Diabetes Prevention Program was a major multicenter clinical research study completed in 2002 that found weight loss through dietary changes and […]
The collaborative Boston University Medical Campus research team of Louis Gerstenfeld, PhD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Jennifer Schlezinger, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, and Gerald Denis, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology successfully competed for one of several Ellison Foundation Awards that are made to investigators at Tufts, Harvard, and Boston University each […]
Julie Keysor is a swing-dancing 44-year-old who also likes to hike, bike, snowshoe, sail, and fish. None of which would seem remarkable were it not for the fact that Keysor has arthritis, diagnosed when she was just 25. That circumstance, and the fact that Keysor’s five-year-old daughter also suffers from a form of the disease, […]
Join the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) on Tuesday, Dec. 7 as it hosts Dr. J. Keith Joung, Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Chief of Pathology for Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Joung also serves as the Director of the Molecular Pathology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Joung’s […]
The Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, the branch of the school of medicine engaged in graduate education is hosting an open house and graduate fair to showcase 12 Masters degree programs. At this event prospective students will have an opportunity to meet program directors and other prospective students; find out admissions criteria, learn about research […]