Educating the Next Generation of Medical Professionals with Machine Learning is Essential
Thursday, September 27, 2018 Source: BUSM Artificial intelligence (AI) driven by machine learning (ML) algorithms is a branch in the field of computer science that is rapidly gaining popularity within the healthcare sector. However, graduate medical education and other teaching programs within academic teaching hospitals across the U.S. and around the world have not yet come […]
Legislators get update on battle against breast cancer
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Written by: Colin A. Young | Source: Lowell Sun STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON — Researchers trying to fight cancer by identifying what causes the disease in the first place briefed lawmakers and staffers Tuesday on their work to learn more about the environmental causes of breast cancer. “We’re aiming for actually preventing cancer […]
New AI Technology Significantly Improves Human Kidney Analysis
Thursday, January 11, 2018 Source: BUSM The ability to quantify the extent of kidney damage and predict the life remaining in the kidney, using an image obtained at the time when a patient visits the hospital for a kidney biopsy, now is possible using a computer model based on artificial intelligence (AI). The findings, which appear in […]
Avrum Spira Leads “Stand Up to Cancer” Dream Team
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Written by: Sara Rimer | Source: BUToday Armed with $12 million, researchers aim for early detection of lung cancer Can lung cancer, rarely diagnosed until it’s in an advanced and deadly stage, be nipped in the bud? Avrum Spira and his team intend to find out. Spira (ENG’02), Alexander Graham Bell Professor in Health […]
Boston researchers to head $16.6 million effort to ‘intercept’ cancer
Thursday, October 26, 2017 Written by: Sophia Eppolito | Source: Boston Globe The nonprofit Stand Up To Cancer is launching a $16.6 million program to investigate new ways of halting lung and pancreatic cancers in the early stages, and Boston scientists will head up three of the four research teams. The group, which is announcing the program Thursday, said […]
William Johnson Receives U01 Grant
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Source: BUSM Office of the Dean Recognition for Large Q1 Grants BUSM has received more than $39 million in grant funding during the first quarter of FY18. New awards and renewals with more than $1 million in total anticipated costs over the life of the award include: (*=award not yet included […]
Vijaya Kolachalama Receives AHA Grant to Improve Cardiovascular Treatments
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Source: BUResearch Vijaya B. Kolachalama, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at BUSM, has received a Scientist Development grant from the American Heart Association (AHA). The $231,000 award will fund his three-year study, “Mechanisms of drug-coated balloon therapy.” This project will focus on developing models for smarter artery care including improving drug […]
BU Paves Way for MED Prof’s $10M Plus Partnership with Industry
Monday, April 3, 2017 Written by: Sara Rimer | Source: BUToday As a pulmonary physician scientist, Avi Spira is driven to get his breakthroughs in molecular biomarkers for the early diagnosis of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) into clinical care. “I’m a doctor, I want to help people,” says Spira (ENG’02), a School of […]
Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Written by: Barbara Moran | Source: BUToday Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer in the United States—and in the world. According to the National Cancer Institute, it accounts for more than a quarter of cancer deaths in this country, killing about 158,000 people in 2016. Because lung cancer is so […]
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 […]