For nearly 40 years, Catherine E. Costello has advanced the application of mass spectrometry to biomolecules, especially carbohydrates and glycoproteins. Costello is a professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics at BUSM and founding director of both the school’s mass spectrometry resource and its cardiovascular proteomics center. “Early on, the scientific world pooh-poohed MS for structural […]
BUSM researchers have found that when attempting to pass tanning bed legislation, successful advocates collaborate with local and national organizations and lobbyists and have direct contact with the sponsoring legislator to aid in the passage of the bill. These findings, which appear on-line in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, also identify strong […]
Kelsey Derricks, a Boston University ENGMEDIC student, was awarded a highly competitive American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Seed Grant to conduct research in Dr. Matthew Nugent’s laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at BUSM. Kelsey, a 2009 graduate from Boston University’s Biomedical Engineering program, will expand on her senior research project, Engineering a 3D Lung […]
Educational leaders from BUSM believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues. The findings, which currently appear on-line in BioMedCentral Medical Education, represent a national model for addressing this issue for internal medicine residents. Unhealthy substance use can be […]
Adam Rose MD, MSc, FACP, an assistant professor of medicine at BUSM and a core investigator at the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research at the Bedford VA Medical Center, has been named a 2009 Pier M. Mannucci Young Investigator prizewinner. Rose received this award for his article titled “Warfarin dose management affects […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new syndrome affecting potentially thousands of hospital inpatients. Coined SHAKE (Supplement-associated Hyperammonemia After C(K)achetic Episode), the condition, which results in altered mental status and difficulty walking, can be prevented by excluding high protein dietary supplements in a patients’ diet if they have experienced poor […]
Join Anna Studwell, IVIS Core Technician/Manager on March 10 as she presents an introduction to In Vivo Imaging. This presentation covers the basic science behind bioluminescent and fluorescent imaging, a description of the imaging hardware, and an overview of analysis techniques using Living Image software. Researchers interested in tracking cancer cell metastasis and tumor growth, […]
BUSM researchers have found that sociodemographic characteristics are related to a patients’ willingness to participate in cancer screenings. They found this was more important than both attitudinal barriers and medical facilitors. This study appears in the March issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association.
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Slone Epidemiology Center and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have found that pre-pregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain are associated with an increased risk of preterm birth in African American participants from the Black Women’s Health Study. This study appears in the March issue of […]
The Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Chapter at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in collaboration with the National Chapter of PHR, will host a first-of-its-kind conference to focus solely on integrating health and human rights into the health education. Participants will be a part of a national movement to change the health profession to […]