Congratulations to Anthony Spinella on a successful defense!
Congratulations to Anthony Spinella on successfully defending his PhD dissertation entitled Age-Associated Alterations in Head and Neck Cancer! Anthony is a member of the Varelas Lab in BU’s Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. In 2024, he was selected to present a research talk at the FASEB Hippo Pathway in Biology and Diseases Conference in […]
Congrats to our 2024 graduates!
Congratulations to our 2024 MD-PhD graduates Margaret Minnig, Anthony Yeung, Shen Ning, and David Swain! Margaret will begin residency in psychology and research at The University of Washington Anthony will begin residency in pediatrics as part of the Molecular Medicine Program at The University of California San Francisco Shen will begin residency in Diagnostic and […]
Congratulations to our MD-PhD Class of 2025 AOA Inductees!
We are proud and honored to announce the following AOA inductees from our MD-PhD Class of 2025.
Annual MD-PhD Program Retreat Brings Students of All Years Together for a Day Full of Science, Medicine, Mentorship, and Fun!
The annual retreat is a student-planned initiative attended by all members of the MD/PhD training program. Students interact and learn from their colleagues in all years during this event. The retreat includes a keynote speaker (usually an alum of the program), several student scientific and clinical presentations, and a poster session where M2s and […]
Congratulations to Daniel Kirsch on a successful defense!
Congratulations to Daniel Kirsch on successfully defending his PhD dissertation on the pathological contributions to clinical symptoms of CTE!
MD PhD Students Shine at Medical Student Research Symposium!
MD PhD students presented this past Monday at the Medical Student Research Symposium. Rose Zhao was selected as an oral presenter for her research on “Characterization of Whole-genome Double Sequencing Events Across Tissues in vivo.” Martin Ma and Kristen Segars both won awards for their poster presentations. A huge congratulations to our students!
Congratulations to Shen Ning on her AOA Induction!
Shen Ning has been elected to have membership to the medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). Induction into AOA is awarded to medical students who exemplify scholarship, character and have contributed significantly to the medical sciences and practice. On behalf of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine’s MD/PhD program, we would like […]
Congrats to our 2023 graduates!
Congratulations to our 2023 MD/PhD graduates Kristy Abo, Katelyn Batterman, Alissa Frame, Xu Ke, Yoonjoo Lee, Will Li, Jane Lock, Aditya Mithal, and Marc Vittoria! We wish you the best in your upcoming endeavors!
Read the Fall 2022 Bench to Bedpost Bulletin Here!
The Fall 2022 edition of the Boston University MD/PhD Bench to Bedpost Bulletin is now live! Some highlights from this semester’s Alumni edition include: Dr. Borkan’s interview with Dr. Ian Francis (MD/PhD ’20) A recap of the 2022 annual MD/PhD Retreat Two award-winning MD/PhD students And more! The Bench to Bedpost Bulletin is brought to […]
Conor Shea wins Moorman-Simon Fellowship
Congratulations to Conor for winning the 2022-2023 Moorman-Simon Fellowship! The fellowship is provided to current MD/PhD and PhD students in Computational Biomedicine who are working in the field of cancer research. Conor has been working in Beane and Spira-Lenburg Labs, using single cell RNA transcriptomics to profile premalignant lesions in the lungs and identify their […]