WCVI News & Announcements
VIJAYA B KOLACHALAMA, PhD
Congratulations Dr. Kolachalama Grant Number 1RO1HL159620 Project Title: Mechanisms of drug- coated balloon therapy Project Period: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2025
Katya Ravid, DSc New Grant
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ravid on her new grant! Grant Number RO1HL158670 Project Title Megakaryocyte Mechanosensing Toward Platelet Biogenesis Project Period September 1, 2021 - 7/31/2025
Vasan Ramachandran, MD 2021 recipient of Louis and Artur Lucian Award
Congratulations to Vasan Ramachandran, MD, FACC, the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine, who has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Louis and Artur Lucian Award! This honor is bestowed annually to one researcher from around the world who has made outstanding contributions to the field of... More
Congratulations Dr. Katya Ravid on AHA Grant
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Katya Ravid on her latest grant from the American Heart Association. To read the full news release please visit the AHA's website. Cancer-Associated Thromboembolism as Affected by Health Disparities (CAT-HD) at Boston University School of Medicine Center – led by Katya Ravid, D.Sc., a... More
2021 Integrated Pilot Grant Awardees
Congratulations to Drs. Vipul Chitalia and Vijaya Kolachalama on their recent Pilot Grant Awards. Vipul C. Chitalia, MD, PhD Modeling the Anemia Elicited by Chronic Kidney Disease in Zebrafish The goal of this research is to uncover how the interplay between microRNAs and uremic solutes orchestrate the responsiveness to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) in... More
Katya Ravid Named Inaugural Incumbent, Barbara E. Corkey Professor of Medicine
Katya Ravid, DSc, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, has been selected as the inaugural incumbent of the Barbara E. Corkey Professor of Medicine. Dr. Ravid is nationally and internationally recognized for seminal discoveries in the field of megakaryocyte and platelet biology. Early in her career, she discovered a unique transcriptional signature... More
Congratulations to Dr. Emelia Benjamin
March 31, 2021: Emelia Benjamin Promoted to Associate Provost, BUMC Faculty Development Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at BUSM and BUSPH, and a clinical cardiologist at BMC, has been promoted from Assistant to Associate Provost, BUMC Faculty Development. Dr. Benjamin is deeply engaged in the... More
Dr. Jingyan Han publication
Congratulations to Dr. Jingyan Han on her publication in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, section Cardiovascular Metabolism. Alcohol binge drinking selectively stimulates protein S- glutathionylation in aorta and liver of ApoE −/− mice, by Kerstin Seidel, Xueping Wan, Mo Zhang, Yuxiang Zhou, Mengwei Zang, Jingyan Han. Article Link
2021 Toffler Scholar Grant Recipient
Congratulations to Dr. Kolachalama! Vijaya B. Kolachalama, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Computational Biomedicine) and Computer Science and four students from his lab are the 2021 Toffler Scholars in Neuroscience grant recipients for their project “Alzheimer’s Disease Classification Using Deep Learning.” The Toffler Scholar Program was established by the Karen Toffler Charitable... More
National Academy of Inventors Election
Congratulations to Joyce Wong, PhD on her election the National Academy of Inventors. BU Today Article Link