Researchers at the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (BU CSTE), a collaboration with the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI) and the Bedford (MA) Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center, announced today that National Hockey League (NHL) player Derek Boogaard had evidence of early stages of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated brain trauma, when he died May 13, 2011, at the age of 28.
For the second consecutive year, anesthesiologists from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have received the prestigious Ellison C. Pierce Award for the Best Scientific Exhibit in Patient Safety from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF). The award, which was presented during the 2011 American Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting […]
Sixty-seven BUSM faculty who also serve as BMC clinicians were named to the 2011 “Top Docs” issue by Boston Magazine. Addiction Psychiatry Domenic Ciraulo, MD Allergy and Immunology Helen Hollingsworth, MD Cardiac Electro-Physiology Kevin Monahan, MD, FACC Cardiovascular Disease Eric Awtry, MD Gary Balady, MD Sheilah Bernard, MD Wilson Colucci, MD Dermatology Barbara Gilchrest, MD […]
Research conducted by a pair of physicians at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) has led to the development of a test that can help diagnose membranous nephropathy in its early stages. The test, which is currently only offered in the research setting and is awaiting commercial development, could have […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have, for the first time, identified an intracellular signaling enzyme that regulates the wake-sleep cycle, which could help lead to the development of more effective sleep aid medications. Subimal Datta, PhD, director and principle investigator at the Laboratory of Sleep and Cognitive Neuroscience at BUSM, led the […]
Senior Living Residences (SLR) Compass Memory Support team presented Robert Stern, PhD, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical & Research Program and ADC Clinical Core with a check supporting BU’s clinical research. “We are delighted that the Compass communities are continuing to fundraise on our behalf. This provides tremendous support for our research and is […]
In what is believed to be the first study of its kind to examine the relationship between pre-existing depression (with and without anxiety) and the amount of time to diagnostically resolve an abnormal mammogram and/or Pap test, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found suffering from depression was not associated with a […]
Two BU School of Medicine faculty members will be named to professorships: Barbara E. Corkey, PhD as the Zoltan Kohn Professor in Medicine and Avrum Spira, MD, MSc as the Alexander Graham Bell Professor in Health Care Entrepreneurship. The installation will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 3:30 p.m. in the 670 Albany Street, […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that Klotho, an anti-aging and anti-cancer protein, is reduced in the aged brain. The study, led by Carmela Abraham, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry at BUSM, identified compounds that increase Klotho expression in cultured cells. To do so, they conducted a high throughput screen of 150,000 […]
BUSM Clinical Research Nurse in Neurology, Raymond James, BS, RN was a presenter and discussion facilitator during the recent Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) intensive training session for 27 new Research Associates. At the three-day session, which was held in New Jersey during October, the newest Research Advocates took part in rigorous sessions on the science […]