Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that certain T cells require input from monocytes in order to maintain their pro-inflammatory response in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The study also showed, for the first time, how a loss in homeostasis in this group of T cells most likely promotes chronic […]
Researchers from BUSM have been awarded a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Early Detection Research Network (EDRN), as well as a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the Department of Defense (DOD). These grants will allow the scientists to develop novel and complementary procedures for early detection of lung cancer in […]
BUSM Professor Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, is the recipient of the 2010 Van Slyke Award from the American Academy for Clinical Chemistry New York Metro Section. The award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the science of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. Holick, an internationally renowned expert in vitamin D and skin research, was chosen to […]
Ewa Kuligowska-Noble, MD, FACR, professor of radiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM ) and a radiologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), is the recipient of the 2010 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award from the American Association for Women Radiologists. The award, which is presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to […]
Armed with a five-year, $2.8 million federal grant, School of Medicine researchers are hoping to stem HIV infection and transmission among mentally ill people engaged in risky behaviors such as needle sharing and unprotected sex.
Applying a technique called motivational interviewing (MI), the BU team, from the Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine Program (MHCBM), will recruit and counsel severely mentally ill adults who want to protect themselves from HIV or who are already infected but don’t want to pass the disease to others. Sometimes homeless, these people lack the confidence, self-control, and communication skills to change their behavior. By tailoring sessions to the individual, MI counselors give people unsparing information about the potential price of their risky behavior and help them build skills to change that behavior, says Stephen Brady, a MED associate professor of psychiatry and graduate medical sciences and MHCBM director. The study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, will include 308 volunteers and will compare brief MI-based prevention treatment with what clinicians call “care as usual.”
The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today “Irish” Micky Ward has pledged to donate his brain after his death to the CSTE Brain Donation Registry and will participate in CSTE longitudinal research. Ward’s amazing life story is told in the biopic “The Fighter,” opening […]
Kitt Shaffer, MD, PhD, professor of radiology and vice chairman for Education in Radiology at BUSM, received this year’s Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Outstanding Educator Award during the society’s 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago Nov. 28-Dec. 3, 2010. This award recognizes distinguished academics that have devoted 15 years or more […]
Many of National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) top grantees studying the link between substance abuse and HIV/AIDS were interviewed at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna, Austria in July 2010. Hear Dr. Jeffrey Samet discuss his research into the role of the primary care clinician.
BUSM researchers have demonstrated that commensal species of the genus Neisseriae are low inducers of human airway epithelial cell responses as compared to the pathogenic species. Specifically, the study indicates that a Neisserial outer membrane component appears to play a differential role in the host inflammatory responses via interaction with a receptor on the surface […]
Senior Living Residences (SLR) and its Compass Memory Support Assisted Living communities donated $7500 to the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center (BUADC). The BUADC is one of thirty centers funded by the National Institute on Aging to make research advances that will improve the care and treatment for people with Alzheimer’s disease, as well as […]