Karin Schon, PhD, joined BUSM’s department of anatomy & neurobiology in 2013, where she is the Director of the Brain Plasticity and Neuroimaging Laboratory.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Steven Borkan, MD, Assistant Professor Daniel Cifuentes, PhD, and Associate Professor Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD.
The five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse will help fund his latest research on the various aspects of drug addiction, including genetics.
The hope is that it will ultimately lead to medicines and treatments targeted to specific patients that may help fight diseases like lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis.
Megan Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE, and Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD, have been awarded a two-year $550,000 grant funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through the COVID-19 Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists Collaborative. BUSM is among 22 medical schools receiving funding to help researchers with caregiving responsibilities continue their important contributions to scientific discovery.