Student Residence, What You Can’t See from the Outside

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 Receives 2012 Bovill Award

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 […]

Identifying an “Achilles’ Heel” in Colon Cancer

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 […]

Work on Student Residence Park Begins

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 […]

Teaching Doctors How to Close Life’s Last Door

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 Receive Funding from Scleroderma Foundation

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 […]