Helpful Links / Remote Conferencing
BU Information Services & Technology offers many services at their TechWeb site.
BUMC SharePoint: Online collaboration tool for groups
Microsoft SharePoint services enable groups to collaborate by sharing document libraries, calendars, task lists, discussion boards, meeting resources, etc. SharePoint sites come with standard BU branding, which you can customize. Simple templates are available to help you get started quickly.
Zoom for virtual meetings, seminars and events
Zoom meetings can be hosted for up to 300 people. TechWeb provides complete information about features, requirements and cost for expanding meetings up to 1000 attendees.
Digital media content
Adobe Creative Cloud key features and information to request a license are available from BU IS&T.
Video Conferencing: a helpful starting place as an introduction to services offered by BU IS&T
Information is available for Meet-Me Conference Calls.
Microsoft Teams (replacing Skype for Business) allows hosting for up to 1000 participants. Visit TechWeb for details.
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Find a Collaborator: Tools for Finding Internal Collaborators at BU (BU Profiles, Centers and Institutes, SciVal, Dimensions, BU Experts)
Research Resources website (http://www.bu.edu/orc/)Funding Resources (timely updated) (https://pivot.proquest.com/session/login)
Graduate Studies (http://www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/)
Diversity and Inclusion Office (http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/about/diversity/)
Boston University
Research at BU (http://www.bu.edu/research/)
CTSI BU Profiles (http://www.bu.edu/ctsi/support-for-research/networking/bu-profiles/)
Biology seminars (http://www.bu.edu/biology/)
BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center (BUnano) (http://www.bu.edu/nano-bu/)
Research Links
NHLBI Program Trains Scientists to Bring More Science Out of the Lab and into the Patient Care Marketplace (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/directorscorner/messages/new-nhlbi-program-trains-scientists-bring-more-science-out-lab-and)
SMARTT: Speeding the Translation of Discoveries to the Clinic (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/spotlight/fact-sheet/smartt-speeding-translation-discoveries-clinic)
GeneFisher Interactive Primer Design (http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/genefisher2/)
Transcriptional Regulatory Element Database (http://rulai.cshl.edu/cgi-bin/TRED/tred.cgi?process=homehttp://rulai.cshl.edu/cgi-bin/TRED/tred.cgi?process=home)
Jackson Laboratory (http://www.jax.org/)
PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez)
College and University Directory (https://www.migrantclinician.org/toolsource/resource/braintrack-college-and-university-directory.html)
Biology weekly Seminars at MIT (http://www.wi.mit.edu/programs/biologyweek/biologyweek.html)
Transportation
MBTA Public Transportation (http://www.mbta.com/)
BUMC Transportation (http://www.bu.edu/maps)
Expertise Search Portal:
Expertise search portal allows for the identification of faculty expertise, core facilities and instrumentation.
Please visit Expertise Finder (https://ExpertiseFinder.com/)
Internal Funding:
ARC grant applications via the Evans Center
Pilot grants via the DOM to allow generation of pilot data for new ideas and grants
Translational Research Grants via the Clinical and Translational Science Institute
BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center Pilot Grants-Call for Applications
Biomedical Bridge BUilders Initiative is designed to accelerate the commercialization of clinician-inspired medical device innovations by partnering with graduate engineering biodesign and product development student teams.
External Funding:
Finding Funds via OSP at BUSM: using COS (previously known as Community of Science) funding database – in the search box, type any search term(s) you want and sortable results will appear immediately
Grants.gov
Science, AAAS – Where to Search for Funding
NIH Funding
NSF Funding
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund
Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cooley’s Anemia Foundation
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships
Human Frontier Science Program Fellowships
Immune Deficiency Foundation Novartis Fellowship
Cancer Research Institute – Postdoctoral Fellowships
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship
Lupus Foundation of America Fellowship
NATO Science and Engineering Fellowships
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Research Fellowships
National Multiple Sclerosis Society Postdoctoral Fellowships
Global Health
NOTE:
NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (replaced the CRISP system)
RePORT Expenditures and Results: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm