Research
Students at GMS participate in a vast array of cutting-edge research on Boston University’s medical campus. Our campus boasts continually expanding state-of-the-art facilities that provide the highest quality services to investigators through our expert, multidisciplinary faculty and the most up-to-date instruments and equipment. PhD students gain valuable research skills including the opportunity to publish their work.
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BU School of Medicine Research Centers
- Alzheimer’s Disease Center
- Amyloid Treatment & Research Center
- Arthritis Center
- Biomedical Genetics
- Cancer Center
- Cardiovascular Proteomics Center
- Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- Data Coordinating Center, SPH
- Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
- Framingham Heart Study
- Genome Science Institute
- Global Health & Development Center
- Hearing Research Center
- Immunobiology Center
- Military and Post Deployment Health Center
- National Emerging Infectious Diseases
Laboratories Institute - New England & Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center
- Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center
- Pulmonary Center
- Sexual Medicine Center
- Sickle Cell Disease Center for Excellence
- Slone Epidemiology Center
- Spivack Center for Clinical & Translational Neuroscience
- Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute
- Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center
BU also has Advanced Core Laboratory Services including:
- Mass Spectrometry
- DNA/Protein Core
- Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Facility
- NMR Spectroscopy Core
- Cryo-Electron Microscope Facility
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope
- Transgenic Facility
- Cardiovascular Imaging Suite
- Laboratory Animal Science Center.
The hospital has also recently opened the BU-BMC Cancer Center and the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory. The latter is funded in part by a $124 million grant from NIH, which is the largest single grant ever given by NIH to a medical center.
Charles River Campus Centers
MD/PhD students can join the Department of Biomedical Engineering or one of the many laboratories throughout the campus that is run by a faculty with a joint appointment at the medical center. Opportunities include:
- Research in nanotechnology or chemical drug screening through the Chemical Methods Library Design (CMLD) center, a NIH roadmap facility that couples combinatorial chemistry and pharmaceutical research.
- Opportunities in application of photonics research to biomedicine at the Photonics Center, such as work using lasers to detect incipient Alzheimer’s disease.
Faculty Research Interests
Our faculty and students are involved in a wide variety of research projects. In addition to our core facilities, centers and institutes, browse our departmental research focuses and our faculty research interests to find fields that match your own.