Adam Rose MD, MSc, FACP, an assistant professor of medicine at BUSM and a core investigator at the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research at the Bedford VA Medical Center, has been named a 2009 Pier M. Mannucci Young Investigator prizewinner. Rose received this award for his article titled “Warfarin dose management affects […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new syndrome affecting potentially thousands of hospital inpatients. Coined SHAKE (Supplement-associated Hyperammonemia After C(K)achetic Episode), the condition, which results in altered mental status and difficulty walking, can be prevented by excluding high protein dietary supplements in a patients’ diet if they have experienced poor […]
Join Anna Studwell, IVIS Core Technician/Manager on March 10 as she presents an introduction to In Vivo Imaging. This presentation covers the basic science behind bioluminescent and fluorescent imaging, a description of the imaging hardware, and an overview of analysis techniques using Living Image software. Researchers interested in tracking cancer cell metastasis and tumor growth, […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Slone Epidemiology Center and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have found that pre-pregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain are associated with an increased risk of preterm birth in African American participants from the Black Women’s Health Study. This study appears in the March issue of […]
The Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Chapter at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in collaboration with the National Chapter of PHR, will host a first-of-its-kind conference to focus solely on integrating health and human rights into the health education. Participants will be a part of a national movement to change the health profession to […]
Robert C. Green, MD, MPH, co-director, Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical & Research Program and professor of Neurology, Genetics and Epidemiology and Ron Killiany, PhD, director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and associate professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology will be awarded an Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) grant. This GO grant is funded by the National […]
John Mackey, Hunter Hillenmeyer, Mike Haynes, Zach Thomas, Kyle Turley to Donate The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that one active and 18 retired National Football League (NFL) players have pledged to join the rapidly growing CSTE Brain Donation Registry. The newest donors […]
A bone marrow drive was recently held in honor of Lorraine Witzburg, wife of BUSM Associate Dean of Admissions Bob Witzburg, MD. Two hundred forty-six potential donors registered and hundreds of dollars were donated to the cause. “This was an incredible experience and I felt honored to be there and to feel the sense of […]
Boston resident Michele David, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, an immigrant from Haiti, has received the 2010 William A. Hinton Award. David was selected by Public Health Commissioner Dr. John Auerbach to receive this award in recognition of her many years of activism, commitment to public health and tireless work to educate others in order that they may better understand, promote and support efforts to eliminate health inequities. David is an assistant professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, director of community health programs at Boston University Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and co-director of the Boston Medical Center Haitian Health Institute.
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have determined how the TGFβ-Smad signaling pathway, which is over activated in late-stage cancers, is responsible for the “epigenetic memory” that maintains unique patterns of regulatory DNA hypermethylation causing silencing of critical genes that facilitate breast cancer progression. The findings, which appear online in Cancer Research, […]