Click below to read about Adrienne’s selection as the most recent recipient of the Janet L. Norwood award. http://sph.bu.edu/insider/index.php/Recent-News/busphs-adrienne-cupples-honored-for-achievement-in-statistical-sciences.html?piwik_campaign=insideremail
GSI members along with other faculty at Boston University have collaborated to identify genes that can predict longevity. “The scientists, lead by Paola Sebastiani at the School of Public Health and Thomas Perls at the School of Medicine, have found 150 genetic markers that predict with 77 percent accuracy whether people will live extremely long […]
Held last Tuesday, June 15th, in the Evans Biomedical Research Center, the GSI Faculty Meeting was quite a success. For those of you who were unable to attend and share your thoughts on the future evolution of genetics and genomics at BU with us, you can find the slides from the presentation here. Any comments […]
GSI Member, Robert Green will be a guest speaker at two prominent events this June: The World Science Festival in New York and the Consumer Genetics Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Below is the description of Dr. Green’s discussion at the World Science Festival. Our Genome Ourselves – World Science Festival Thursday, […]
Led by GSI member Avi Spira, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with investigators at the University of Utah, have discovered a new approach for identifying smokers at the highest risk for developing lung cancer. The findings, which appear in the April 7th issue of Science Translational Medicine, will allow the […]
BU Today: For decades, Richard Goldstein has been trying to unlock a genetic puzzle that holds the secret to a more effective vaccine for a pneumonia strain that kills more than a million children a year worldwide. For his work, the BU School of Medicine professor of pediatrics was recently awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant […]
GSI faculty member, Sam Thiagalingam and GPGG alumni, Panos Papageorgis, from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have determined how the TGFβ-Smad signaling pathway, is responsible for the “epigenetic memory” that maintains unique patterns of regulatory DNA hypermethylation, causing silencing of critical genes that facilitate breast cancer progression. The findings, which appear online in Cancer […]
Josee Dupuis, GSI faculty, BUSPH biostatistician and an international consortium (MAGIC) has identified new genetic variants that influence blood glucose regulation, insulin resistance, and the function of insulin-secreting beta cells in populations of European descent. Five of the 13 newly discovered variants increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form of […]
GSI faculty member, Robert Green, MD, MPH, BUSM, professor of neurology, genetics and epidemiology participated in a panel discussion following the Boston premiere of “I Remember Better When I Paint,” an Alzheimer’s disease documentary on January 12th. Click here for more information. http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=1994
GSI faculty member Miklos Sahin-Toth and colleague (Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, GSDM) have demonstrated that misfolding of mutant digestive enzymes also kills acinar cells —those that make and give out digestive enzymes. Click here for details. Szmola R, Sahin-Toth M. Pancreatitis-associated chymotrypsinogen C (CTRC) mutant elicits endoplasmic reticulum stress in pancreatic acinar cells. […]