Boston University was well represented at the Emory Global Health Case Competition on March 31. The team of six included a medical student, an MD/MBA student, three MBA/MPH students and a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, placed second out of a roster of 23. This was the first year that BU has participated. The team […]
BUSM researchers were part of an international team of investigators to discover a remarkably simple organizational structure in the brains of humans and non-human primates. The researchers found that the brains of higher animals are built from parallel and perpendicular fibers that cross each other in an orderly fashion. According to the researchers this kind […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a gene that plays a key role in regulating inflammatory response and homeostasis. These findings could help lead to the development of innovative methods to reduce the inflammation associated with cancer, type 2 diabetes and other diseases. The study, which was led by Valentina Perissi, […]
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, it will kill about 160,000 people in 2012, more than the next four cancers combined. Avrum Spira wants to lower these numbers by diagnosing it earlier and preventing its development. For the last decade, Spira, a School of Medicine […]
There may be fewer paths to medical school if the significance of physician empathy takes on more importance. If empathy forms the foundation for positive relationships between physicians and patients, and ultimately better clinical results, then medical school applicants interested in primary care and possessing this trait could have an advantage in the admissions process […]
Two Boston University School of Medicine staff members have been recognized with one of Boston University’s highest honors for service to the University. Registrar Ellen DiFiore and Celeste Rich, Laboratory Manager, Department of Biochemistry, have been named recipients of the John S. Perkins Distinguished Service Award. The Perkins Award is presented to three people each […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have derived a population of pure lung and thyroid progenitor cells in vitro that successfully mimic the developmental milestones of lung and thyroid tissue formation. The research, which will be published in the April 6 edition of the journal Cell Stem Cell, […]
Anurag Singh, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at BUSM, along with Dr. Avrum Spira, associate professor of medicine, pathology and laboratory medicine, recently presented their work at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Chicago. Singh’s seminar, on targeted therapeutics for colon cancer was featured in the […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered the regulation and functional significance of the acute phase response during a lung infection. The findings, which will be published in the May edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, demonstrate that the liver responds in order to increase defenses in the blood that prevent […]
A recent study led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers has found that many circulating biomarkers from different biological pathways have been independently implicated in causing stroke and cerebrovascular disease. However, their relative contribution to the prediction of stroke risk was unclear. The study also investigated whether the biomarkers contribute over and above […]