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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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
Inside the Biotech Company Hoping to Solve Medical Mysteries
What If We Could Stop Lung Cancer Before It Starts?
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Source: BU Today In this microscopic image of precancerous lung tissue, the hot pink cells are dividing faster than in normal lung tissue. Credit: Beane, et al., Nature Communications Genomic differences related to the immune system may play a key role in the early development of lung cancer. That... More
Researchers Develop Combined Data Model to Better Evaluate for Mild Cognitive Impairment
Thursday, October 4, 2018 Source: BUSM A new study has shown that by combining imaging and neuropsychological testing, one can more accurately assess the cognitive status of individuals. Cognitive decline is one of the most concerning behavioral symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The ability to efficiently distinguish individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)... More
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... More