News
- Students enjoyed attending the The 2019 Program Retreat, particularly they keynote address from alumnus Dr. Hao Ngyuen, MD PhD
- Aditya Mithal (G3) was awarded a travel award and abstract trainee merit award for his poster at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
- Omar Mohtar’s (M3) recent JCB publication has been highlighted as an editor’s choice in Science Signaling. Check it out here.
- Shen Ning (G3) has been featured in a Journal of NeuroPhysiology Podcast discussing her work investigating how sleep-wake cycles affect tau accumulation. This podcast can be found here.
- Congratulations to our six graduates in the Class of 2019!
- Nisma Mujahid (Class of 2019) was featured in a PBS Nova Article discussing sun protection, something that she investigated in her graduate studies. This article can be found here.
- Marc Vittoria, G4, NIH F30
- Nisma Mujahid, ’19, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Foreign Study Award, Gold Humanism Honor Society
- Jacob Kantrowitz, ’19, Gold Humanism Honor Society
- Leon Sun, G4, NIH F30
- Alissa Frame, M3, NIH F31, Best Poster Award at American Heart Meeting on Hypertension
- Terry Hsieh, ’18, Alpha Omega Alpha, Travel Award from the Shock Society,Gold Humanism Honor Society
- Anjali Jacob, ’19, NIH F31, Jo Rae Wright Young Investigator of the Year, FASEB meeting – best trainee oral presentation, First Author Paper in Cell Stem Cell, Alpha Omega Alpha
- YoonJoo Lee, G4, NIH F30, Travel Award from American Society for Cell Biology
- Will Li, G4, Autism Science Foundation – Predoctoral Fellowship
- Sanghee Lim, M3, Medical Student Grants Targeting Melanoma and Skin Cancer Research,Melanoma Research Foundation Medical Student Research Grant
- Melody Lun, ’18, Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award
- Ryan Quinton, G4, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Foreign Study Award, Jean McPhail Award
- Stephanie Pavlovich’s M4 new Cell Paper can be found here
Congratulations to our rising M3s on defending!
We are so proud of our students who are beginning their transition back into their clinical training. Below are our students and the titles of their thesis.
- Shen Ning (GPN, PI: Shelley Russek)- “Developing Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Antibody Delivery in Alzheimer’s Disease”
- Margaret Minnig (GPN, PI: Valentina Sabino)- “The Role of Corticostriatal Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) in Excessive Alcohol Drinking”
- Anthony Yeung (MTM, PI: George Murphy)- “Hematopoiesis in the Lung: From Development to Adulthood”
Congrats to our 2022 graduates!
Congratulations to our 2022 MD/PhD graduates Batbold Boldbaatar, Eric Brownhill, Chinaemere (Chino) Igwebuike, Ryan Quinton, and Yuliang (Leon) Sun! We wish you the best in your upcoming endeavors!
Congratulations to Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD/PhD ‘84 !
Join us in congratulating Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD/PhD ‘84 for being selected by the NIH All of Us Research Program to serve as next chief medical and scientific officer! We're excited to follow all of your exciting new work
MD/PhD graduation/defense celebration
Thank you everyone for coming to our MDPhD graduation and defense celebration! It was great to see everyone together and we wish you the best in your transition to M3/residency!
Grand Rounds – Dr. David Holtzman
This month's Grand Rounds featured Dr. David Holtzman, Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Distinguished Professor of Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis. For the past 27 years, professor Holtzman has been leading research into understanding Alzheimer's disease pathology and potential treatment options. Professor Holtzman has recently been investigating the role of sleep-wake cycle on amyloid-beta accumulation and subsequent Alzheimer's disease progression. While discussing the very interesting research topic, Dr. Holtzman provided examples in which insights in pathology learned through basic science research can be applied to potential clinical therapy developments. We are thankful to Dr. Holtzman for showing a potential pathway for physician-scientists who wish to combine basic science and clinical translation.
Grand Rounds – Dr. George Murphy
This month's Grand Rounds was led by Dr. George Murphy, an associate professor and co-director of Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at BUSM. As one of the leading researchers at CReM, professor Murphy has been developing stem cell based platforms to study various hematopoietic diseases and potential clinical treatments. In this Grand Rounds talk, professor Murphy shared many insights on the clinical need for stem cell based sickle cell therapies and the current state of the field. Besides the scientific knowledge, professor Murphy also shared his views on the role of medical ethics in upcoming genetic modification therapies and the unique role physician-scientists will play in development of these therapies. We are thankful to have Dr. Murphy for our Grand Rounds this month and we hope to invite him for further discussion when opportunity arises.
Please click here to learn more about his lab and its recent achievements.
Career Development Event – Step 1
Thank you very much to the M1/M2s as well as the upper years for coming to this career development event (CDE) for Step 1 preparation. We appreciate the upperclassmen who have come today to share their insights in studying for Step 1, including useful resources and common pitfalls. We wish the best for the M1/M2s who hopefully found today's talk helpful for planning their study strategies.
Grand Rounds – Laura Lewis
For this month's Grand Rounds we have Dr. Laura Lewis, an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She has made recent headlines in neuroscience research community by imaging the cerebrospinal fluid washing in and out of the brain during deep sleep. Today, professor Lewis provided more insights on the collaboration that took place between her lab and the clinicians that lead to many meaningful research findings. Thank you Dr. Lewis for coming to our Grand Rounds and sharing your experiences.
APSA NE Physician Scientist Regional Meeting
This year, we will be hosting the Northeast Physician Scientist Student Symposium. This is a multi-institutional effort co-organized by BU, Tufts, Harvard/MIT, and UMass, to bring together students, trainees and faculty from the Northeast region medical schools to discuss career development and science as physician scientists. This event is a great opportunity to network and meet other MD/PhD’s in the area!
For more info, including registration and abstract submission links, head here.
We are very excited to welcome 6 new entering M1s to BUSM and to our program!
Sam Calderazzo (Boston University)
Kenny Kim (Wash U)
Minyi Lee (MIT)
Carly Merritt (Colorado College)
Linzheng Shi (Vanderbilt)
Benjamin Snyder (UC Berkeley)