GMS Students “Boo” It Themselves During Halloween Week Painting Events
GMS students channeled their inner creativity this Halloween week at two different painting events on campus. The first, “Boo-It-Yourself,” was sponsored by GMS Student Affairs and the Community Catalyst Center and invited students to decorate a Halloween- or fall-themed wooden sign. Students chose from a variety of stencils available or free-handed their own work. The […]
GMS Students & Postdocs Attend 2025 STEMPeers Conference in Boston
Four PhD students and two postdoctoral candidates from Graduate Medical Sciences attended the 2025 STEMPeers Conference, hosted October 4 at the Boston University Metcalf Trustees Center. STEMPeers is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and mentoring STEM PhDs throughout their career exploration and transition efforts. The conference was sponsored in part by GMS and the […]
Congratulations to Our GMS Distinguished Alumni Award Winner, Dr. Vladimir Kefalov (GMS ’99)!
Vladimir Kefalov, PhD (GMS ’99), currently serves as a professor of ophthalmology, and of physiology & biophysics, at the University of California Irvine, holding the Allergan Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology and serving as Vice Chair for Research in Ophthalmology. He is recognized worldwide as one of the top electrophysiologists in vision research and has received […]
GMS Celebrates Fourth-Annual Gear-Up Week
The Community Catalyst Center’s fourth-annual Gear-Up Week brought students together for a week of connection, academic skill-building, creativity and more. Gear-Up Week, hosted this year from Sept. 8 to 12, offered four different activities and events throughout the week. The week began with Community & Belonging Office Hours, hosted by Dr. Karin Schon in the C3 […]
The Fall 2025 Semester Has Begun at Graduate Medical Sciences!
Welcome to Fall 2025 at Graduate Medical Sciences! This semester, we welcomed 486 students to GMS, including 459 master’s students, five MD/PhD students and 22 PhD students. Our incoming students are joining us from 22 different countries and 39 states, attending a collective 220 undergraduate institutions. Most of our new students arrived on campus on […]
Physician Assistant Class of 2028 Celebrates White Coat Ceremony
The new students will join first-year medical students for 18 months of team-based learning The Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Class of 2028 celebrated their White Coat Ceremony with family, friends, faculty and staff in Hiebert Lounge on Friday, Aug. 8, officially marking their entry into the study and professional practice […]
BU’s Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) Core Facility: Understanding the structures of life at a near-atomic scale
Studying the biological structures of viruses, proteins and other tiny macromolecules is key to understanding how life systems function and what happens when disease or injury cause these systems to break down. These macromolecules are so small that traditional microscopes can’t see them very well. Instead, it takes a special kind of microscope to view […]
GMS MS in Oral Health Sciences (OHS) Welcomes 50 New Students – Its Largest Cohort in Program History
The Master of Science in Oral Health Sciences (OHS) program welcomed 50 students to its Class of 2026, comprising the program’s largest cohort since it was founded in 2005. This year’s new students attended an Orientation event on Thursday, July 31. The incoming Fall 2025 cohort is represented by students from 14 different states and […]
Living Longer and Living Healthier: The intersection of regenerative medicine and healthful aging
What’s the key to healthful aging? Ask George Murphy, PhD, associate professor of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. The Murphy Lab applies stem cell-based models and regenerative medicine to develop and advance techniques in the advancing fields of geroscience and aging biology. Rather than studying disease itself, the Murphy Lab […]
Vickery Trinkaus-Randall, PhD, and Steven Borkan, MD, Receive $1.6M Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Award to Train MD/PhD Students
Read full article Congratulations to Vickery Trinkaus-Randall, PhD, professor of biochemistry & cell biology, and ophthalmology, and Steven Borkan, MD, associate professor of medicine, who have received a multi-PI Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $1.6 million award is the first received by BU for the MD/PhD program. […]