Six Junior Faculty Receive Career Development Awards
Written by: Amy Laskowski | Source: Bostonia Jerry Chen received quite a present just three months after arriving at BU. Chen, a College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of biology, is the winner of this year’s Stuart and Elizabeth Pratt Career Development Professorship, which highlights excellence within CAS. A neuroscientist who uses the sensory input from […]
New Consortium to Study Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer
Written by: Rich Barlow | Source: BU Research Cancer researcher David Sherr is gunning for a disease that has upended his life. His wife died from multiple myeloma 15 years ago. So when the Art beCAUSE Breast Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit supporting research into the environmental causes of breast cancer, approached him for ideas to accelerate progress, Sherr, […]
Johnson & Johnson expands project that aims to predict, prevent diseases
March 22, 2016 | Written By: Tribune news services | Source: ChicagoTribune Johnson & Johnson has ramped up its ambitious project to learn how to predict who will develop particular diseases and find therapies to prevent or stop the disease early, when it’s most treatable. Since the health care giant announced its groundbreaking project in […]
Stopping Lung Cancer Before It Gets Going
March 7, 2016 | Written By: Upal Basu Roy, MPH, PhD | Source: LUNGevity “The LUNGevity award provided me the resources to study premalignant lung cells—a stage in which normal lung cells have changed, but not yet completely into cancer cells. This is an extremely important area of cancer research for lung cancer as well […]
How RNA Editing May Promote Tumor Growth
Thursday, March 17 2016 | Source: BUSM A new study provides insight on the potential role played by RNA (ribonucleic acid) editing in cancer. The findings, which appear online in the journal Scientific Reports, may further our understanding of an emerging mechanism implicated in tumor initiation and progression, and may thus lead to the development of […]