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      ECIBR Newsletter Fall2024

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      Upcoming ARC Directors Luncheon Meetings:
      12-1:30p | W502 
      2025 meetings tba

      April 29, 2025
      ARC Applications to be submitted by 11:59p
      For information and to download an application please visit Joining an ARC and Incentives

      ARCs funded for
      2024-2025


      New B4D ARC welcomes collaborators.

      Contact: Dr. Weining Lu


      Pre-ARCs
      are actively seeking new collaborations:

      attn: interest areas include (1) addiction science, 2) reproductive biology, and 3) sex-based differences
      Women’s Health (led by Emelia Benjamin, Elisha Wachman & Joyce Wong)

      attn: Dept of Medicine
      Food Access, Justice and Sovereignty (FAJS) Task Force (led by Olivia Thomas & Megan Sandel)

      attn: Computer & Data Sciences
      BRIDGE-Substance Disorder (SUD) (led by Venetia Zachariou, Alexander Walley & clinical consultant Kathleen Kantak)


      BIT-ARC
       
      Welcomes Collaborators:
      contact Dr. Weining Lu for more information


      Joining an ARC: Information, expectations and application form

      Thurs, Dec 12 | 1:30pm | Women’s Health Pre-ARC | Dec Meeting | Agenda & RSVP | L109 AB & Zoom

      Wed, Dec 18 | 8:30am |  MHet ARC Trainee Presentations (hybrid) | Sargent College, Rm 236 | Comm Ave | Zoom

       Thurs, Dec 19 | 9:30am | DoM Researchers Forum | X715 (zoom available | All DoM Faculty – any stage – are welcome and encouraged to attend!


      SAVE the DATE: DoM Researchers Retreat | Fri
      day, March 28, 2025 | 9:30a- 4p | 17th floor,  Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering | 
      665 Comm Ave

      Tech Talks! | 2025 Schedule | Mondays @ noon on Zoom

        Active ARCs

        The Center provides opportunities for collaborations within Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs) organized around foci of common research interests. The ARCs create opportunities for new interdisciplinary approaches to both research and training in biomedical research.

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        Mission Statement

        Faculty affiliated with the Evans Center hold academic appointments with different departments. The Center provides opportunities for collaborations within Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs) organized around foci of common research interests. The extraordinary strength in biomedical and physical sciences at Boston University, and the support and development of the ARCs create opportunities for new interdisciplinary approaches to both research and training in biomedical research. Basic science discovery promoted by ARCs are also available to the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and to other centers for collaborative translational applications.

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        News and Spotlights

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        Katya Ravid, Fellow of the American Heart Association

        Katya Ravid has been elected Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) conferred by the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS). This Fellowship welcomes Dr. Ravid "into one of the world’s most eminent organizations of cardiovascular and stroke professionals". It is recognition "for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the areas of scholarship, practice and/or education, and […]

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        Drs. Katya Ravid and Vipul Chitalia lead a Center focused on Cancer-Associated Thromboembolism as Affected by Health Disparities (CAT-HD)

        Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine part of the American Heart Association’s new focused research network devoted to addressing disparities that intersect heart disease & cancer. Drs. Katya Ravid and Vipul Chitalia, co-directors of Thrombosis and Hemostasis ARC were awarded by the AHA, along with BUSM/BMC/VA colleagues, to lead a Center focused on […]

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