WCVI News & Announcements
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
AUC Appointment
Please join us in congratulating our Interim Director, Naomi Hamburg, MD, on her election to the Association of University Cardiologists.
Vascular Biology Publication
Congratulations to our Vascular Biology section and Dr. Francesca Seta on the recent manuscript has publication in Circulation Research. CIRCRESAHA.120.316666
Whitaker Cardiovascular Pilot Grant Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Pilot Grant! Beatriz Ferran Perez, PhD Jena Goodman, PhD Kiyoung Kim, Phd Albin Oh, MD Kerstin Seidel, PhD Eugene Saw, PhD Yuko Tsukahara, PhD
DOM/Evans Days 2020 Award Winners
CONGRATULATIONS to the following award recipients: Citizenship Award Mike Kirber, PhD – Research Implementation Research Mentoring Award Katya Ravid, DSc – Cardiovascular Medicine Evans Center IBR Research Collaborator of the Year Award Jessica Fetterman, PhD – Vascular Biology Vijaya Kolachalama, PhD – Computational Biomedicine
Employment Opportunity
Postdoctoral Associate Position: The Boston University School of Medicine seeks recent Ph.D. graduates with a metabolic or immunologic research background to join the Pharmacology and Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute as Post-doctoral Research Associates. The interests of the research group are focused on understanding the metabolic regulation of hematopoiesis, systemic inflammation related to obesity, fatty... More
Whitaker Cardiovascular Pilot Grant Announcement
To: WCVI member FROM: Naomi Hamburg, MD RE: CALL FOR PROPOSALS: WCVI pilot grant announcement for post docs. Please see the attached document for details. WCVI pilot grant announcement