The Evans Memorial Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine will celebrate its 100th anniversary on October 5-6. All former and current residents, fellows, staff, faculty, alumni and their guests are invited to attend a special symposium dedicated to reflecting on the department’s past century and peering into the future of healthcare and […]
Richard D. Wainford, PhD, assistant professor in the departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and a member of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute at BUSM, has been nominated as a Fellow of the American Heart Association affiliated with the Council for High Blood Pressure Research for his professional accomplishments and […]
Max Wallack, a research intern in the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics in the Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry and Aging at Boston University School of Medicine, has been awarded the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes . According to their website: “Max founded Puzzles to Remember, a non-profit organization that has distributed over 14,600 […]
The Boston University Police Department offers the “Rape Aggression Defense” program (RAD) specifically for women desiring to physically protect themselves against rape and other forms of violence. The course is taught by RAD-certified BUPD instructors over a 20-hour course. The RAD system is a realistic self-defense program of defensive tactics, techniques and education. It is […]
Boston University School of Medicine is receiving a $250,000 grant from the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its innovative work in career flexibility for academic physicians. Six other medical schools also received awards, which ACE launched after investigating the structural and cultural constraints for faculty career flexibility in […]
Take a video tour of 815 Albany Street, Boston University’s first on-campus residence for medical students. Last year Simone Ellis’ commute on the BU Shuttle from her Charles River Campus dorm to the School of Medicine could take anywhere from 20 minutes on a good day to more than an hour during a Red Sox […]
BUSM students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the dedication ceremony on Friday, Sept. 21, at 2:30 p.m. at 815 Albany St. Looking down Albany Street it’s hard to miss the brick and limestone façade of the newly constructed, nine-story student residence. Fully occupied by 208 BUSM medical and graduate medical sciences students, most […]
Results of a study led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System indicate that the proposed changes to the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will not substantially affect the number of people who meet criteria for the disorder. Mark W. Miller, PhD, associate professor […]
A study led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has shown that a compound used in some skin creams may halt the progression of emphysema and reverse some of the damage caused by the disease. When the compound Gly-His-Lys (GHK) was applied to lung cells from patients with emphysema, normal gene activity […]
A study conducted by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected a high prevalence of abnormalities associated with knee osteoarthritis in middle-aged and elderly patients that had no evidence of knee osteoarthritis in X-ray images. Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, professor of radiology at BUSM and chief of […]