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Two hands in medical gloves form a heartWinter Spring 2026Boston University Medicine

Author: Lisa Brown

Researchers Create Structural Model that Explains How Charged Biopolymers Enhance Protein Clustering in Amyloid Diseases

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Study improves understanding of how heparan sulfate and related biopolymers such as heparin, can promote amyloid deposition in various organs.

BUSM Faculty Promotions to Professor Announced

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Congratulations to Drs. Medzon, Powsner and Reardon!

MD Student, Faculty Among the Winners of COPE Medical Student Curriculum Challenge

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Congratulations to fourth-year medical student Nivetha Saravanan and faculty mentors Sarah O’Connor, MD, Erica Holland, MD, and Kelley Saia, MD!

Racism and Segregation Associated with Advanced Stage Lung Cancer, Decreased Likelihood of Receiving Surgery Among Blacks

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Study highlights the impact that structural racism and residential segregation has on non-small cell lung cancer outcomes.

BUSM Faculty Promotions to Associate Professor Announced

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Twenty BUSM faculty have been promoted to associate professor. Congratulations!

Researchers Identify Gene Responsible for Increased Risk of Infantile Fragility

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Finding may have implications for the diagnosis of child abuse, non-accidental trauma.

Second-Year Students Plant MSR Garden

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Second-year students Sara Khattab and Sean Wang Pong Chan planted an assortment of greens and vegetables in nine raised beds.

Study Reveals Factors that Shape Haitian Creole-Speaking Women’s Birth Plans after C-Sections

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The information was used to develop a group counseling curriculum to enhance shared decision making between the women and their care provider.

Survival is More Important than a Chronic Medical Condition in Prioritizing Medical Care when Resources are Limited

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Findings support excluding chronic heart failure, cirrhosis, chronic lung disease from a list of conditions which should be triaged as lower priority for ventilators if there is a shortage.

Researchers Create Novel Curriculum Assessment Tool to Improve Medical Education About LGBTQI Populations

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The tool identified strengths in the pre-clerkship and clerkship curricula, but also revealed that some SGM topics are underrepresented.

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