Students

New paper from David Swain: Investigating the morphological changes induced by glaucoma

Congratulations to David Swain for his new paper studying endothelial glycocalyx morphology in primate eyes with induced glaucoma published in Cells this month! The work provides another puzzle piece in our ongoing investigation into the pathophysiology of glaucoma, mainly the effects of decreased outflow on the trabecular outflow pathway. Read more about his work here.

Congratulations to Martin Ma for winning a poster prize at the FASEB Lung meeting

Congratulations to Martin Ma from Darrell Kotton’s lab for winning a poster prize at the FASEB Lung meeting! Martin’s poster was about using iPSC derived epithelial cells for airway regeneration. Here is a picture of Martin at the poster presentation with his PI and fellow MDPhD classmate Carly Merritt!

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)