After three days of intense assessment and review by the LCME accreditation site visit team, a celebration was held on March 2 in the Hiebert Lounge to acknowledge the hard work of everyone involved in the LCME self-study and site visit. Hosted by Dean Antman, approximately 70 team members attended. While the final report of […]
The BUSM Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP) offers first-year Boston University medical students scholarships to complete eight-week research projects with a BUMC faculty member. This past summer 23 students participated in the program. These participants showcased their research results at the annual medical student summer research symposium on Feb. 10, 2011 in Hiebert Lounge. […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) is one of five institutions receiving funding from the Aetna Foundation to support research designed to deepen understanding of the root causes of the nation’s well-documented obesity epidemic and drive viable solutions to the core problems. More than $1 million in funding will be granted in support of separate […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that patients with node negative T3 and T4 non-small lung cancer who underwent chemotherapy before surgery had more than three times the survival rate than patients who only underwent surgery. These findings currently appear on-line in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The study […]
BUSM researchers Carmela R. Abraham, PhD and Tiffany Mellott, PhD have been awarded grants from the Alzheimer’s Association. Dr. Abraham received $200,000 to support her current research on drug therapy for Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Mellott, was granted $80,000 to support her current research on a naturally-occurring brain chemical which may have Alzheimer-preventing properties. The study, […]
BU Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) are hosting the 2011 Research Networking Workshop on Friday, March 4, One Silber Way, 9th floor, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. This workshop is open to all BU faculty. The event promotes research collaborations and peer mentoring. The workshop begins with very brief presentations of research interests by faculty members […]
On Tuesday, Feb. 15 at noon (EST) BUSM Professor Ben Wolozin MD, PhD, BUSM professor, department of Pharmacology, will participate in a webinar on stress granules and their relevance to neurodegeneration. He will be joined by his colleagues and will share some of their latest research. This webinar is sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Research Forum. […]
Maria Trojanowska, PhD, BUSM professor of medicine, has been awarded a research grant by the Scleroderma Foundation’s Peer Review Committee for her work in “The Role of ER Stress in SSc-PAH.” She is one of six investigators to receive awards this year. Dr. Trojanowska was presented with the Walter A. Coyle Memorial Research Grant Award, […]
Two BUSM faculty, Pietro Cottone, PhD, an assistant professor of pharmacology and psychiatry and Michael Silverstein, MD, an associate professor of pediatrics, were each awarded the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientisits (BRAINS) grant with ten other investigators from around the country. The BRAINS award called for […]
The launch of the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP) – a collaboration formed to discover and map the genes that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – was announced today by a multi-national group of researchers including Drs. Lindsay Farrer and Sudha Seshadri at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). The collaborative effort, spanning universities from […]