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
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)
Alissa Frame (M3) received an F31 from the NIDDK for her project entitled: Renal and Neural Mechanisms of Age-Related Hypertension. She also received an award for the best poster presentation at the American Heart Meeting on Hypertension.
Marc Vittoria (G4) was awarded an F30 from the NCI for his proposal entitled: Defining Novel Mechanisms of Genome Instability in BRAF-Mutant Melanoma
Leon Sun (G4) was recently awarded an F30 from NHLBI for his proposal to investigate rare forms of childhood interstitial lung disease using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells.
Sanghee Lim (M3) received Medical Student Grants Targeting Melanoma and Skin Cancer Research from the Melanoma Research Foundation. His dissertation from the Ganem Lab was recently published in Nature Communications (Paper)
Ryan Quinton (G4) recently received two awards: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Foreign Study Award and the Jean McPhail Award
Stephanie Pavlovich’s M4 new Cell Paper detailing her dissertation work can be found here!
Anjali Jacob (Class of 2019) was recently inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. She was also awarded an NIH F31, the Jo Rae Wright Young Investigator of the Year, the best trainee oral presentation at the FASEB annual meeting, and published her dissertation work in Cell Stem Cell (Paper).