Novel respiratory cell changes identified from cigarette smoke exposure
Source: Medical Press Cigarette smoking changes the types of cells that are present in the respiratory track and some biological processes necessary for detoxification of cigarette smoke are restricted to specific types of cells. “Our study describes novel respiratory cell changes that result from cigarette smoke exposure that may be associated with the development of pre-cancerous tissue,” […]
New candidate cancer genes identified using math models
Source: EurekAlert (Boston)–Computational modeling is the use of computers to simulate and study the behavior of complex systems. Computational approaches are widely adopted in the bioimedical sciences and can be used to sift through large volumes of complex data to extract recurrent patterns that may point to a disease’s causes and effects. Researchers from Boston […]
Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association
Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor of Medicine has been elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) conferred by the Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD). Fellowship recognizes and awards premium professional members for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the areas of scholarship, practice and/or education, and volunteer service within the AHA/ASA. Click […]
Dr. Honghuang Lin elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association
Dr. Honghuang Lin, Associate Professor of Medicine has been elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) conferred by the Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine (GPM). This fellowship recognizes and awards premium professional members for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the areas of scholarship, practice and/or education, and volunteer service within the […]
Denise Fine recognized with 2019 BUMC Research Professional Network All Star Award
September 16th, 2019 The 2019 BUMC Research Professional Network All Star Award will be awarded to Denise Fine, Clinical Research Coordinator. The All Star Award recognizes a clinical research professional who, during their career at BMC/BU Medical Campus, has made consistently superior contributions of outstanding significance to the field of clinical research at the institution. […]
Moorman-Simon Fellowship 2019-2020
Moorman-Simon Fellowships in Computational Biomedicine The Moorman-Simon Fellowship in Computational Biomedicine was established in the summer of 2019 to provide fellowships, one year in duration to current Ph.D. students in Computational Biomedicine who are working in the field of cancer research. This fund was established through a generous gift by Trustee Ruth A. Moorman (CAS’88, […]
2019-2020 Dahod Awards Announced
July 8, 2019 Source: Office of the Dean, Boston University School of Medicine Congratulations to Joshua D. Campbell, PhD, and William Evan Johnson, PhD, recipients of the 2019-2020 Dahod Pilot Grant Program Fund. In August 2008, Shamim Dahod (CGS’76, CAS’78, MED’87) and her husband Ashraf gave $10.5M to BUSM to establish the Shamim and Ashraf Dahod […]
New Method for Evaluating Cancer Risk of Chemicals is Quick, Precise, Inexpensive
Dr. Stefano Monti explains his research methodology on fingerprinting carcinogens in our environment Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Source: EurekAlert! (Boston)–Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health have developed and evaluated a fast, accurate and cost-effective approach to assessing the carcinogenicity of chemicals–that is, whether exposure to a chemical increases a person’s long-term […]
New Publication: Scruff: an R/Bioconductor package for preprocessing single-cell RNA-sequencing data
Thursday, May 2, 2019 Source: BMC Bioinformatics Background Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the high-throughput quantification of transcriptional profiles in single cells. In contrast to bulk RNA-seq, additional preprocessing steps such as cell barcode identification or unique molecular identifier (UMI) deconvolution are necessary for preprocessing of data from single cell protocols. R packages that […]
New Publication: Tobacco-Related Alterations in Airway Gene Expression are Rapidly Reversed Within Weeks Following Smoking-Cessation
Kahkeshan Hijazi, Bozena Malyszko, Katrina Steiling, Xiaohui Xiao, Gang Liu, Yuriy O. Alekseyev, Yves-Martine Dumas, Louise Hertsgaard, Joni Jensen, Dorothy Hatsukami, Daniel R. Brooks, George O’Connor, Jennifer Beane, Marc E. Lenburg & Avrum Spira Monday, May 6, 2019 Source: Nature The physiologic response to tobacco smoke can be measured by gene-expression profiling of the airway […]