Two New ARCs Established to Promote Team Science

The Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research has established two new Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs), effective July 1.

ARCs consist of faculty and trainees from different disciplines across both BU campuses and are organized around foci of common research interests. The development of the ARCs create opportunities for new interdisciplinary approaches to research and training in biomedical research.

The newly added ARCs include:

Connecting Tissues and Investigators (Fibrosis in Pathology)
Co-Directors: Irving Bigio, PhD; Maria Trojanowska, PhD; and Xaralabos (Bob) Varelas, PhD

This ARC will bring together basic researchers, clinicians, and bioengineers across both campuses to test the hypothesis that there are shared and tissue-specific factors in organ fibrosis. These factors can be utilized to develop improved and more quantitative diagnostics to identify both global and/or tissue-specific biomarkers and therapeutic targets. The team will focus on molecular phenotyping of profibrotic cells, metabolomics and imaging of fibrosis.
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Tobacco Regulatory Science
Director: Jessica Fetterman, PhD
Co-Directors: Stine Grodal, PhD; Naomi Hamburg, MD; and Andrew Stokes, PhD

The Tobacco Regulatory Science ARC seeks to tackle questions related to the safety, perceptions, marketing, and use patterns of new and emerging tobacco products and to evaluate the effectiveness of associated regulatory measures. Research is needed to inform policy makers of the health, perceptions, economic and behavioral effects of new and emerging tobacco products in order to develop the appropriate policies to protect human health.
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