BUSM Winners of the 2015 Graduate Research Symposium

The Boston University Graduate Research Symposium was held on March 31, 2015. Over the past two decades, this event honors and celebrates the research accomplishments of our graduate students and we are proud to announce that the School of Medicine winners of the 2015 Graduate Research Symposium are:

grad symposium winnersPhilip Montenigro for his abstract entitled Beta-amyloid in chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Alzheimer’s disease, and normal aging: evidence for non-overlapping etiologies”.  Philip’s advisor is Dr. Thor Stein.

Alexander Hua for his abstract entitled “Control of Pancreatic Cancer through PPAR-alpha”.  Alexander’s advisor is Dr. Simon Levy.

We want to extend our congratulations to the winners as well as to their advisors!  We also want to congratulate each and every participant, ALL of whom received high scores for their presentations.  It was a great day for BUSM!

We also want to offer a very special thank you to all of the judges who took time out of their busy schedules to participate.