For decades, Richard Goldstein has been trying to unlock a genetic puzzle that holds the secret to a more effective vaccine for a pneumonia strain that kills more than a million children a year worldwide. For his work, the BU School of Medicine professor of pediatrics was recently awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant from the […]
US News & World Report named Boston University School of Medicine as the 34th research medical school in the US. Up from its rank of 35th last year, BUSM is tied with USC’s Keck Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School. See the rankings here. U.S. News uses several standards to assess the schools. School reputation […]
BUSM offers grant proposal training to assist principal investigators in preparing individual research grants for submission to various federal agencies and private foundations. The one-day training is offered semi-annually and is open to all BUSM faculty members who are preparing first-time, amended, or competitive renewal applications. Training emphasizes style, substance, and organization of individual sections […]
Join BUSM Associate Professor Michele David, MD, MBA, MPH, FACP as she delivers the keynote address at The 2010 William A. Hinton Lecture “Massachusetts Health Care Reform in Communities of Color: Lessons Learned”. Dr. David will speak on Health Disparities: A Physician’s Journey from Haiti to Advocacy. She will address the following: Why she began […]
Robert M. Cole and David S. Young have been named 2010 Massachusetts Medical Society Scholars. They are among eight scholars – two from each of the state’s four medical schools – who will be honored at the Society’s Annual Meeting on May 14 at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston. The Society’s […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with investigators at the University of Utah, have discovered a new approach for identifying smokers at the highest risk for developing lung cancer. The findings, which appear in the April 7 issue of Science Translational Medicine, will allow the researchers to use a genomic approach […]
BUSM Associate Dean and Professor of Surgery Barry Manuel, M.D. has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with its 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, given each year to a member of the Society who has made a lasting contribution to the practice of medicine over a lifetime and who has made significant contributions to the goals of the Society.
Two BUSM students, Busayo Obayan and Thea Textor, have been selected as 2010-11 Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Over the next year, Obayan and Textor will join approximately 200 other 2010-11 Schweitzer Fellows across the country in conceptualizing and carrying out service projects that address the unmet health-related needs of underserved individuals and communities: Busayo Obayan plans […]
What do obesity, heart disease, depression, diabetes, and fibromyalgia have in common? The answer is vitamin D deficiency. Over 200 million Americans lack this essential vitamin and as a result suffer from a host of daily annoyances, chronic conditions, and even life-threatening illnesses. In The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most […]
At BUSM 140 students anxiously awaited the results of Match Day. The annual event marks the moment in which students around the country learn which residency programs they will be attending and where they will spend the next three to five years of their lives following graduation.