As you look down Albany Street at the student residence you’ll notice that the entrance canopy and the first floor storefront windows have been installed. The curtain walls, the decorative glass façades, on south and west sides are complete. The curbing for the adjacent park and the driveway entry to the building is also underway. […]
Paul Tornetta III, MD, professor and vice chairman of orthopaedic surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) recently received the 2011 Bovill Award for his paper, “Posterolateral Antiglide Versus Lateral Plating for SE Pattern Ankle Fractures: A Multicenter Randomized Control Trial,” from the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA). The award was presented at the 2012 […]
Over 1 million cases of colon cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year resulting in approximately 600,000 deaths annually. Disease-causing mutations in the KRAS gene are found in over half of these cases. In the United States, colon cancer patients are routinely genotyped for KRAS gene mutations and those with mutations are excluded from receiving novel […]
The title of a congressional report last month said it all: “False and Misleading Health Information Provided to Teens by the Indoor Tanning Industry.” With students already heading to tanning salons before next month’s spring break, Barbara Gilchrest, a School of Medicine professor of dermatology, is echoing the report’s warnings against bronzing on a tanning […]
Work on both the interior and the exterior of the student residence continues. Most noticeable is the absence of the exterior material lift on the outside of the building! Work on the park adjacent to the building has begun, with the first step of grading the soil. Installation of curbing on Pike Street has been […]
Lewis Weintraub, MD, a Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and a BMC Hematologist/Oncologist and, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence. The Jerome Klein Award was established in 2010 to commemorate Dr. Klein’s 50 years of service to BMC/BUSM and is presented annually […]
At age 78, Charles Swanigan could jog three miles at a stretch. One year later, with the prostate cancer he had battled for a decade spread throughout his body, he could hardly move. Just getting out of bed, he tells his doctor and two BU School of Medicine students paying him an autumn house call, […]
Two BUSM researchers, Thomas Ruenger, MD, PhD and Barbara Smith PhD, have received grants from the Scleroderma Foundation. Ruenger, professor of Dermatology, was awarded a research grant for his work in Intracellular Degradation of Collagen in Scleroderma. Smith, professor of Biochemistry, was awarded a grant for her work in Collagen Regulation in Systemic Sclerosis. The […]
The latest news on AIDS is sobering. In 2009, 2.6 million people became infected with HIV, according to data released in November by UNAIDS. That’s down from 3.1 million in 1999, but still amounts to 7,000 new infections and nearly 5,000 deaths every day. Deborah Anderson is working to reverse this trend. Armed with a […]
While much of the work on the student residence is focused on the infrastructure and the interior, two visually significant changes are imminent. The exterior lift used by tradespeople will be dismantled in two weeks and canopy construction will begin shortly. Because the interior freight elevator is operational and the passenger elevator should be functional […]