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Annual MD-PhD Program Retreat Brings Students of All Years Together for a Day Full of Science, Medicine, Mentorship, and Fun!

By agoldste October 2nd, 2024 in Alumni, News, Students

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  • 2024 MD-PhD program group photo!

  • Dr. Trinkaus-Randall shared important program news and updates

  • Dr. Borkan provided invaluable lessons on life, learning, and medicine.

  • Students from all years connected through shared hobbies, interests, and quirks during fan favorite ice breakers

  • Students from all years connected through shared hobbies, interests, and quirks during fan favorite ice breakers

  • Students from all years connected through shared hobbies, interests, and quirks during fan favorite ice breakers

  • Dr. Elezaby, who graduated from the BU MD-PhD class of 2017 and now practices as an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine where he continues his research in the lab of Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen, was selected as the key note speaker for our program's 2024 annual MD-PhD Retreat. Dr. Elezaby gave a captivating talk on the integral role of mitchondrial function in modulating cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury, and provided insightful lessons from his journey to becoming a physician-scientist.

  • Keynote speaker and alumnus Dr. Elezaby with current program directors, Dr. Trinkaus-Randall and Dr. Borkan

  • Students presented research from pre-med years, summer rotations, and ongoing PhD projects.

  • Students presented research from pre-med years, summer rotations, and ongoing PhD projects.

  • Students presented research from pre-med years, summer rotations, and ongoing PhD projects.

  • Kenny Kim presented his work on mapping human cerebral blood flow with a high-density, multi-channel speckle contrast optical spectroscopy system

  • Anthony Spinella presented his work on the role of YAP-TEAD blockade in restoring age-associated immune-evasion of oral squamous cell carcinoma

  • Connor Shea presented a riveting clinical case study on a patient found down outside of the hospital

  • Welcome to our new M1s! (left to right: Jackson Smith, Hanna Soulati, Marcia Ndege, CheYu Lee)

  • Lots of food and fun was had during the post-retreat social at Time Out Market!

 

 

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 all students in the graduate phase of the program present research from their labs or rotations.

 

This year's alumni speaker is Dr. Aly Elezaby. Dr. Elezaby is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at Stanford University School of Medicine and a research scientist in the lab of Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen. He graduated from the MD-PhD program at Boston University School of Medicine in 2017.

 

 

 

Photos courtesy of Brittny Garcia

MD PhD Students Shine at Medical Student Research Symposium!

By Brittny Garcia February 1st, 2024 in News, Students

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!

By Brittny Garcia September 1st, 2023 in News, Students

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 to extend our warmest congratulations to Shen!

 

 

Shen now joins the ranks of the following MD/PhD students:

2022:Aditya Mithal, Kristy Abo, Katelyn Trecartin

2020: Ryan Quinton 

2019: Marek Kowalski, Chris Gromisch and Iris Trutzer

2018: Anjali Jacobs 

Congrats to our 2023 graduates!

By Byungchan Kim May 28th, 2023 in News, Students

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!

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Read the Fall 2022 Bench to Bedpost Bulletin Here!

By Sarah Marie Rowan November 16th, 2022 in Alumni, News, Students

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 you by Aria Pearlman Morales, Morgan Corniquel and Katie Hohl, all chairs of the Alumni Committee Branch of the MD/PhD Student Government.

Read the full edition here!

 

 

Conor Shea wins Moorman-Simon Fellowship

By Byungchan Kim November 2nd, 2022 in News, Students

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 progression to cancer.

Learn more about the fellowship here.

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

By Byungchan Kim August 23rd, 2022 in News, Students

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.