For more than 20 years, researchers from BUSM, under the direction of Mary Jo Murnane, have been working to identify and characterize markers that can either diagnose cancer at an early stage or better predict cancer outcomes. Such tumor markers may also prove useful in the design of new cancer therapies. The International Journal of […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products have a reduced incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids). This report, based on the Black Women’s Health Study, appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Uterine fibroids are benign tumors […]
BUSM students Katie Spina, Andrea Girnius, John Cuaron and Joanna Ng are featured in the December 2009 Boston Magazine Best Doctors issue. The story is titled The Doctors Are In (progress). Click on the BUSM student names above to see them and read each story.
Osamu Shimomura stood quietly in front of a Medical Campus audience yesterday, slender shoulders slouched forward, eyes gazing down.
Androgen deprivation therapy reduces prostate cancer (PCa) tumor growth; however, disease relapse often ensues independently of androgen stimulation, producing androgen refractory tumors with increased invasion, proliferation, and malignancy. Androgens down-regulate epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in normal prostate but not in PCa. Thus, loss of EGFR regulation and altered signaling may, in part, explain the […]
Rhoda M. Alani, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Dermatology, Herbert Mescon Chair and professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and chief of the Department of Dermatology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She will assume these positions in January 2010. Prior to these appointments, Alani was a faculty […]
Avrum Spira, MD, MSc has been appointed as chief of the section of computational biomedicine in the department of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). This newly established division will develop and apply computational approaches to the analysis of high-throughput molecular datasets in order to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of complex […]
Jerrold J. Ellner, MD, has been appointed chief of the section of infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine in the department of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Ellner previously had served as chair of the department of medicine at the New Jersey Medical School of the University of Medicine […]
Anil K. Nair, MD, assistant professor of Neurology at BUSM presented a talk on “Doctor Can I Drive? Driving Issues in the Elderly” at the Massachusetts Neurologists Association Annual Fall Meeting on Wednesday, November 4, at the Massachusetts Medical Society in Waltham, Mass. More than 70 neurologists from all over Massachusetts attended his presentation. Nair’s […]
Osamu Shimomura, PhD, BUSM Professor Emeritus and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will address the BU Medical Campus community on Tuesday, November 17. He will speak on “Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP: My Nobel Prize Lecture.”