The Nancy L. R. Bucher, MD Assistant Professorship in Pathology

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Dr. Nancy L. R. Bucher

The Department is extraordinarily pleased to announce the
Nancy L.R. Bucher, MD Assistant Professorship Fund.

The professorship is named for Dr. Bucher, a long time faculty member in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine who has made significant scientific contributions to the understanding of liver regeneration.  She has published dozens of articles in leading journals, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the American Liver Foundation.  Funds from the Bucher Assistant Professorship will be used to recruit a junior faculty member and provide salary support during the initial phase of his or her career.

 

Dr. Nancy L.R. Bucher, MD was a distinguished Professor Emerita of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Bucher reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 in the department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School she sought out another location to pursue her research and was given a lab at the Shriners Burn Institute where she worked until their retirement age of 70.  At that point she still had two NIH grants and a staff of several people.  She was then offered laboratory space with the Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at BUSM where she worked for close to 30 years.  At BU, Dr. Bucher delightedly collaborated with many colleagues including Drs Steve Farmer and Peter Burke. Dr. Farmer introduced her to the wondrous new world of molecular biology, where answers to her previously unanswerable questions could be realistically addressed. Dr. Bucher was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The AAAS was chartered in 1780 and is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning and is a nationwide honor society.  Nancy’s most prestigious appointment as a fellow in the AAAS (and up until recent years, a rare woman fellow) is shared with Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and a long list of Nobel Laureates.  Dr. Bucher also received the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the American Liver Foundation. Dr. Bucher closed her lab at BU in 2011.

In recognition of her pioneering work in the field of cell biology, metabolism and liver regeneration the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine established the Nancy Bucher Seminar in 2006. This seminar has recruited internationally acclaimed scientists and will be celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2017. Through a generous donation from an anonymous benefactor, the Department also established the Nancy L.R. Bucher Assistant Professorship in Pathology. Daniel Remick, M.D., Chair of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine states, “The Bucher Assistant Professorship appropriately recognizes the pioneering work done by Dr. Bucher. The Department is grateful to the donor for the gift, and also grateful to Dr. Bucher for her outstanding contributions to science. Dr. Bucher could always be counted on for ground breaking scientific work and an engaging discussion”. Susan Winandy, Nancy Bucher Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine stated, “Dr. Bucher is a great inspiration to me.  She not only had a passion for science, but a dedication to making a difference in people’s lives with her research.”

Publication dedicated to Dr. Nancy Bucher, MD:

The Aging Human Liver: The Weal and Woe of Evolutionary Legacy