Profs from MED, CAS, and SMG honored for passion, scholarly work Hui Feng spends a lot of time staring through zebra fish. Through because these vertebrates, which have a great deal of genetics in common with humans, are transparent. In fact, one particular breed, called Casper—after the Friendly Ghost—is so phantasmal that Feng says that […]
Boston University School of Medicine fourth-year student Esther Han was awarded the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation’s Physicians of Tomorrow Award and received a $10,000 tuition-assistance scholarship. Han worked as a Senior Health Care Analyst at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in Washington D.C., focusing on promoting culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services, health care quality […]
Centers bracing for cuts, layoffs as NIH budget slashed No one knows the ultimate toll that federal sequestration will take on the Boston University Medical Campus. But its research centers have already seen cuts of up to 100 percent for fiscal 2013, necessitating layoffs and a renewed, urgent push to secure nongovernment funding sources. Research […]
World renowned Vitamin D expert and BUSM professor Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, recently returned from a trip to Brazil at the invitation of one of the country’s parliament members. During his visit, Holick spoke at a seminar where several Brazilian Parliament members and the public attended and met with the country’s Minister of Health […]
Karen H. Antman, MD, Dean, BUSM; David McAneny, MD, AOA Councilor, BUSM and Robert Lowe, MD, AOA Secretary-Treasurer, BUSM, have announced that the following students from the BUSM class of 2014 have been elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national honor medical society organized exclusively for educational purposes. Joshua August Kirsten Lyman […]
David McAneny, MD, associate professor of surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and associate chair for clinical quality and safety at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named vice chair of the department of surgery at BUSM and BMC. In this role, he will serve as division chief of general surgery and section […]
Rachel L. Flynn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and a member of The Cancer Center, was awarded a $50,000 grant for the coming year from the FOSTER (Fighting Osteosarcoma Through Everyday Research) Foundation. Dr. Flynn was recruited to BU from the […]
The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) honored Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu, Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology, last week for his continued efforts in Alzheimer’s disease research. AAQI is a national grassroots charity that raises awareness and funds research through the donation and sale of small art quilts. Marge Farquharson and Dawn Forde, AAQI representatives, visited the […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among obese people who had lost considerable weight, those with high insulin levels–a marker of insulin resistance in the body–were the most likely to experience better blood vessel function following the weight loss. These findings appear online in the […]
With soaring obesity rates in the U.S., the American Medical Association has classified obesity as a disease. This major shift in healthcare policy brings much needed medical attention to obese patients. However, this definition of obesity focuses on a single criterion of Body Mass Index (BMI), which includes a large group of persons with high […]