BUSM researchers have been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) phase 1 award to develop and test a newly designed fluorescent lamp that is capable of producing vitamin D in the skin. Dr. Michael Holick, a professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at BUSM and director of the General Clinical Research Unit, the Bone […]
BUSM Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs John Wiecha, MD, MPH, in the Department of Family Medicine, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Challenge grant from the National Library of Medicine. The grant, valued at more than $950,000 will fund a study to provide health education to African-American […]
The National Cancer Institute’s Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer has tapped a multidisciplinary research team, comprising members of the Charles River and Medical Campuses, to launch a training center to help grow the next generation of nanomedicine researchers in cancer. The announcement comes with a five-year, $2 million grant.
This seminar introduces new users including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and all interested others, to the available instruments and services available at the Flow Cytometry Core Facility. The course will also provide some training in basic techniques. An important educational goal of the seminar is to increase the comfort level of potential users of flow […]
In April, University of Pennsylvania offensive lineman Owen Thomas complained to his parents that he was feeling stressed. He said he was worried that he would fail some of his college courses. The next day, Thomas, who had just been named captain of Penn’s football team, was found dead in his apartment, where he had […]
Join Dirkje S. Postma, MD, PhD, Professor of Pulmonary Diseases in the Department of Pulmonology at the University Hospital Groningen in Groningen, The Netherlands on Tuesday, Sept. 14th, 2010 in BUSM R-309 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. as she discusses “A link between epidemiology, animal and in vitro studies and genetics: asthma and COPD. Dr. Postma leads […]
Two first year Boston University Medical School students spent this summer as Betty Lea Stone-American Cancer Society Research Fellows. Derek Yecies studied a potential cancer treatment drug at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Matthew Cohen studied how cancer resists drugs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The cancer treatment drug Yecies researched targets a protein called […]
Two former NFL players died after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease; New findings suggest they had a new disease associated with repetitive brain trauma The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that they have provided the first […]
To understand patterns of alcohol consumption and baseline factors associated with favorable drinking patterns among HIV-infected patients (with current or past alcohol problems), researchers from BUSM studied their drinking patterns and found that many HIV-infected adults with alcohol problems have favorable drinking patterns over time, but alcohol consumption patterns are not necessarily constant. Based on […]
Research on the quality of US resident physician performance levels has often been limited by lack of a comparison group or strict focus on specific diseases and geographical areas. In order to gain insight on differences in quality of care provided by resident physicians and staff physicians, Boston Medical Center (BMC) researchers investigated performance of […]