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GSDM Office of the Associate Dean for Research Launches Website
During the last week of October the Office of the Associate Dean for Research launched a new website, http://www.bu.edu/dental-research/. The website will serve as a helpful resource for the GSDM and BU research community. Designed as a one-stop shop for pertinent research news, upcoming events, and current federal and non-federal funding opportunities, the site will allow... More
Attend Nov. 15 CTSI Drug & Device Development Seminar, “Developing New Drugs: 10 Issues to Consider”
Join Manuel A. Navia, PhD, as he discusses “Developing New Drugs: 10 Issues to Consider.” Dr. Navia is Executive-in-Residence at Oxford Bioscience Partners located in Boston. This seminar is one in a series that explore Drug and Device Development sponsored by the Boston University CTSI . The seminars are open to BU doctoral... More
ASPH Honors SPH Faculty Member with Distinguished Research Award
Lauren A. Wise, an associate professor of epidemiology, received the 2011 ASPH/Pfizer Young Investigator's Award for Distinguished Research in Public Health at the annual meeting of the ASPH in Washington, DC, Oct. 29-Nov. 2. This was held in conjunction with the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, the world's oldest and largest gathering of... More
BUSM Researcher Awarded Two NIH Grants Totaling Over $11 Million
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researcher Robert Lafyatis, MD, recently was awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. A 5-year, $8 million Centers of Research Translation (CORT) (P50) grant as well as a 5-year $3.3 million (P30) grant. Funding from both grants will be used to study systemic sclerosis (SSc) also known as scleroderma, a rare and complex rheumatic disease involving widespread scarring and vascular disease within multiple organ systems. More
High-dose Melphalan and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation Increases Survival Among AL Amyloidosis Patients
A team of researchers led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has found treatment of selected immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis patients with high-dose melphalan and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDM/SCT) resulted in a high organ response rate and increased overall survival (OS), even for those patients who did not achieve a hematologic complete... More
PLoS ONE Recognizes Helmerhorst for GSDM Research
An article on GSDM Associate Professor Dr. Eva Helmerhorst’s research was recently published in PLoS ONE. The article titled, “Identification of Rothia Bacteria as Gluten-Degrading Natural Colonizers of the Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract,” explains developments that have been made in her research which is currently funded by an R01 award from the National Institute of Allergy... More
Nov. 2 Workshop, Building Successful Research Teams: Preventing and Managing Conflict
Anyone familiar with collaborative research initiatives knows that even the best ideas can flounder when individual researchers fail to communicate and work together as a team. Understanding the factors that contribute to the successful functioning of a team is critical to anyone who leads or participates in collaborative science. Faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and others interested in this topic are invited to attend a free workshop on Wednesday, Nov. 2, which will explore strategies for building and sustaining successful and dynamic research teams. More
GSDM Changing Smiles, Changing Lives
Katy Bednar DMD 12 recently returned from a mission trip with Dentistry for All (DFA) to Comitancillo, in the region of San Marcos, Guatemala. Her stay in Guatemala lasted a total of 18 days, including travel time to the remote rural area, ten hours outside of any major city. Bednar had an excellent experience on... More
BUSM Dean Elected to Institute of Medicine, Karen Antman joins highly regarded national advisory group
Karen Antman, provost of the Medical Campus and dean of the School of Medicine, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The institute, which advises policy makers and professionals on medical and health issues, announced yesterday that Antman is one of 65 people chosen this year for outstanding professional achievement... More
Experts Gather at ARC Symposium on Obesity, Inflammation and Cancer, Oct. 25, 1-5 p.m.
The Obesity, Cancer and Inflammation ARC, co-directed by Drs. Gerald Denis and Barbara Nikolajczyk, is hosting a symposium focused on the cellular, molecular and epidemiological connections between obesity and cancer, some of which are likely based on inflammatory factors. This Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1-5 p.m. at 650 Albany Street, EBRC conference room 714. More
Postdocs Honored and Entertained During National Appreciation Day
On a beautiful fall day approximately 130 postdocs and those who support them wound their way around tables filled with ice cream and toppings, enjoying the jazz music provided by the band assembled by Dr. Rafael Ortega. This celebration, held on Monday, September 19 on Talbot Green, marked National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The ice cream... More
Bicknell Lecture at BUSPH Oct. 28
While conventional wisdom holds that early diagnosis is good, Dartmouth Professor H. Gilbert Welch views it as a major problem for modern medicine, with myriad social, medical and economic implications. In his new book, "Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health," Welch and co-authors Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin write about the hazards of looking too hard for illnesses in healthy people, including additional procedures that carry no benefit but may cause harm, higher health-care costs and psychological detriments. More
Attend Oct. 18 CTSI Drug & Device Development Seminar: The Excitement of Drug Development in Medicine – Barriers and Rewards
Have you wondered how to develop creative ideas into marketable products? Have you wondered whether the molecules you are working on in the lab might be turned into drugs to effectively treat disease? The Boston University CTSI is pleased to announce the first in a series of seminars that explore Drug and Device Development. The... More
Researchers from BU School of Medicine and College of Engineering Receive Grant to Develop Improved Virus Detection System
A team of researchers from Boston University’s School of Medicine (BUSM) and College of Engineering (COE) have been awarded a five-year, $4.8 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop a low-cost, multiplexed virus detection platform. Based on technologies developed with seed funding from Boston University’s Photonics Center, the resulting diagnostic platform should... More
GSDM Reps Attend ASDA Eastern Regional Meeting
Six student representatives from GSDM attended the ASDA Eastern Regional Meeting in Buffalo, New York, September 23-25. The group took part in lectures, seminars, and advocacy training alongside students from thirteen other dental schools. The conference focused on leadership development, advocacy training, and involvement in organized dentistry. Featured speakers included ADA President-elect Dr. William Calnon, 2008-10... More
Free Flow Cytometry Core Facility Training Seminar, Oct. 19
The BUMC Flow Cytometry Core Facility is holding the annual autumn training seminar to introduce new users to flow cytometry. This seminar, “How to run flow cytometry experiments” will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the BUSM Instructional Building in room R103 from 1 – 2 p.m. It will be presented by Flow Cytometry Core... More
Oct. 12 Public Health Forum to Examine Inequities in Health Care Access for Immigrants
In 2006, Massachusetts enacted a pioneering health care reform law that promised universal health insurance coverage. State policymakers jettisoned a piece of this landmark commitment in 2009 when they barred more than 30,000 low-income legal immigrants from part of the health care reform program that subsidizes health insurance premiums for those with very limited means. Health... More
$9 Million Grant Fuels Sickle Cell Study: BU team uses iPS stem cells to probe treatments, cures
BU researchers have developed a way to test treatments for sickle cell disease—a genetic disorder of the red blood cells—by working with stem cells grown from a small vial of patients’ blood. “It’s a clinical trial in a test tube,” says molecular biologist George J. Murphy, a School of Medicine assistant professor of medicine and a codirector of BU’s Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM). More
Free Infectious Diseases Symposium, Oct. 1, Register Now!
The Annual Infectious Diseases Symposium, “Inflammation in Disease Pathogenesis” will be held Saturday, Oct. 1. This symposium brings together researchers from regional institutions with an interest in inflammation and disease. Four outstanding speakers will present their work with sufficient time for discussion and informal interactions among participants. The goal is to facilitate collaborations within... More
Myron Nevins PERIO 67 Presents Schoolman Lecture
Myron Nevins PERIO 67 presented a lecture titled, “A Paradigm Shift from Autogenous Bone to Tissue Engineering,” on September 13. The lecture was attended by residents and faculty of the Department of Periodontology & Oral Biology, as well as GSDM alums and other faculty members. The lecture was part of the Department’s endowed annual lectureship, which... More
Visiting Professor Mary Jane England Touts Integrated Care at BUSPH Public Health Forum
Shoes and bras. Those were the two tangibles that Mary Jane England recalled about her time spent treating patients in state psychiatric institutions – long before she would go on to chair an Institute of Medicine committee charged with exploring ways that mental health and substance-use care could be improved. The men's shoes: Ordered... More
Foul Water and Fiery Serpent, Film Screening & Panel Discussion, Sept. 29
Boston University’s Center for Global Health and Development, and the Department of International Health are co-sponsoring the screening “Foul Water and Fiery Serpent” a new documentary following community health workers in Ghana and Sudan through the eradication of the disabling Guinea worm parasite. More
BUSM Lecture Honors Victim of 9/11 Tragedy
BUSM will present the 10th annual Sue Kim Hanson Lecture in Immunology at noon, Friday, Sept.16, in the School of Medicine’s Keefer Auditorium. The annual lecture honors Sue Kim Hanson, MA, and PhD ’02, a former researcher in BUSM’s Pulmonary Center. Hanson, her husband and their daughter were passengers on one of the airplanes that... More
New Translational Medicine Collaboration Opportunity
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Office of Technology Development (OTD) invite you to learn about a new translational medicine collaboration opportunity with BU and other leading institutions, sponsored by Pfizer Centers for Therapeutic Innovation. A Town Hall meeting with Pfizer representatives will be held on Wednesday Sept. 28, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Hiebert... More
From Pests to Poisons: Basic Science, Epidemiology, and the Policy of Pesticides, Gijs van Seventer Doctoral Seminar Series Kicks Off
Pesticide science has been given the important task of providing human society the food, fiber and public health that it requires in an environmental sound, sustainable and affordable manner. One of the main challenges that we face in obtaining these goals is pesticide resistance. Join J. Marshall Clark, PhD, Professor and Director, Massachusetts Pesticide Analysis Laboratory, More