Robert M. Cole and David S. Young have been named 2010 Massachusetts Medical Society Scholars. They are among eight scholars – two from each of the state’s four medical schools – who will be honored at the Society’s Annual Meeting on May 14 at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston. The Society’s […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with investigators at the University of Utah, have discovered a new approach for identifying smokers at the highest risk for developing lung cancer. The findings, which appear in the April 7 issue of Science Translational Medicine, will allow the researchers to use a genomic approach […]
BUSM Associate Dean and Professor of Surgery Barry Manuel, M.D. has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with its 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, given each year to a member of the Society who has made a lasting contribution to the practice of medicine over a lifetime and who has made significant contributions to the goals of the Society.
Two BUSM students, Busayo Obayan and Thea Textor, have been selected as 2010-11 Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Over the next year, Obayan and Textor will join approximately 200 other 2010-11 Schweitzer Fellows across the country in conceptualizing and carrying out service projects that address the unmet health-related needs of underserved individuals and communities: Busayo Obayan plans […]
What do obesity, heart disease, depression, diabetes, and fibromyalgia have in common? The answer is vitamin D deficiency. Over 200 million Americans lack this essential vitamin and as a result suffer from a host of daily annoyances, chronic conditions, and even life-threatening illnesses. In The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most […]
At BUSM 140 students anxiously awaited the results of Match Day. The annual event marks the moment in which students around the country learn which residency programs they will be attending and where they will spend the next three to five years of their lives following graduation.
For nearly 40 years, Catherine E. Costello has advanced the application of mass spectrometry to biomolecules, especially carbohydrates and glycoproteins. Costello is a professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics at BUSM and founding director of both the school’s mass spectrometry resource and its cardiovascular proteomics center. “Early on, the scientific world pooh-poohed MS for structural […]
BUSM researchers have found that when attempting to pass tanning bed legislation, successful advocates collaborate with local and national organizations and lobbyists and have direct contact with the sponsoring legislator to aid in the passage of the bill. These findings, which appear on-line in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, also identify strong […]
Kelsey Derricks, a Boston University ENGMEDIC student, was awarded a highly competitive American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Seed Grant to conduct research in Dr. Matthew Nugent’s laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at BUSM. Kelsey, a 2009 graduate from Boston University’s Biomedical Engineering program, will expand on her senior research project, Engineering a 3D Lung […]
Educational leaders from BUSM believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues. The findings, which currently appear on-line in BioMedCentral Medical Education, represent a national model for addressing this issue for internal medicine residents. Unhealthy substance use can be […]