Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Pulmonary Center has received a two-year $1.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to derive stem cells and lung progenitors from patients with lung disease. Darrell Kotton, MD, associate professor of medicine and pathology, and Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, are the […]
BUSM researchers have shown that one type of immune system cell, the B cell, is fundamentally different in healthy people as compared to people with inflammatory diseases, including periodontal disease and type 2 diabetes. These differences indicate that B cells promote inflammation in inflammatory diseases not previous linked to this cell type. These findings appear […]
Robert Cantu, MD, clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine and co-director of BU’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), has been named the 2009 United States Sports Academy Ernst Jokl Sports Medicine Award winner. Dr. Cantu is known for his work on catastrophic head and neck injuries, concussions and […]
For more than 20 years, researchers from BUSM, under the direction of Mary Jo Murnane, have been working to identify and characterize markers that can either diagnose cancer at an early stage or better predict cancer outcomes. Such tumor markers may also prove useful in the design of new cancer therapies. The International Journal of […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products have a reduced incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids). This report, based on the Black Women’s Health Study, appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Uterine fibroids are benign tumors […]
Osamu Shimomura stood quietly in front of a Medical Campus audience yesterday, slender shoulders slouched forward, eyes gazing down.
Androgen deprivation therapy reduces prostate cancer (PCa) tumor growth; however, disease relapse often ensues independently of androgen stimulation, producing androgen refractory tumors with increased invasion, proliferation, and malignancy. Androgens down-regulate epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in normal prostate but not in PCa. Thus, loss of EGFR regulation and altered signaling may, in part, explain the […]
Rhoda M. Alani, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Dermatology, Herbert Mescon Chair and professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and chief of the Department of Dermatology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She will assume these positions in January 2010. Prior to these appointments, Alani was a faculty […]
Avrum Spira, MD, MSc has been appointed as chief of the section of computational biomedicine in the department of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). This newly established division will develop and apply computational approaches to the analysis of high-throughput molecular datasets in order to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of complex […]
Jerrold J. Ellner, MD, has been appointed chief of the section of infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine in the department of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Ellner previously had served as chair of the department of medicine at the New Jersey Medical School of the University of Medicine […]