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 […]
A phase II Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) trial showed that combining chemotherapy with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is just as effective after two years in treating anal cancer as chemotherapy and conventionally delivered radiation therapy, but with fewer significant side effects. Radiation therapy with concurrent 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin-C chemotherapy is the standard of care […]
Join the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) on Tuesday, February 15 as it hosts Dr. Helen M. Blau, the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmocology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Blau is also Director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology in the Department […]