New Collaboration: Boston University & Chosun University

On February 20th, 2024, Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Chosun University, Korea signed a memorandum of understanding. Their agreement recorded their intention to promote an academic and research collaboration. The two universities are aiming to collaborate more closely and explore additional ways to mutually benefit from sharing their resources and networks […]

Can We Find a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease?

BU researchers are taking on this daunting question through a variety of approaches—and studying how to care for a growing population of people with the disease. Perhaps it starts with a quick memory lapse—a blank space where a loved one’s name should be, or a mysteriously empty key hook right before heading out. These are […]

BU Study Finds Ashkenazi Jews are More Likely to Suffer from Alzheimer’s

June 1, 2023 – Study author Dr. Lindsay Farrer, and other researchers including Dr. Donghe Li and Dr. John Farrell, had their article, Novel loci for Alzheimer’s disease identified by a genome-wide association study in Ashkenazi Jews, published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Farrer and his colleagues conducted a genome-wide association study for AD in […]