Postdoc fellow positions available in Sepsis, Trauma, and Organ Injury research at University of Maryland, Baltimore

Postdoctoral Fellow Positions Location: Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR Center) R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD Projects: To study the role of extracellular miRNAs and EVs in regulating innate immunity and inflammatory responses in critical illness – trauma, sepsis, ischemic organ injury. Funding: NIGMS, […]

Kristen Segars, MD/PhD candidate, receives an F30 award

Kristen Segars, MD/PhD candidate in the Biomolecular Pharmacology Training Program, received an F30 award on January 28, 2022. Kristen’s thesis research in Dr. Vickery Trinkaus-Randall’s laboratory focuses on cell signaling events that initiate and direct wound healing in the cornea. She uses machine learning and confocal microscopy to study calcium signaling events generated by the […]

Jacob Beierle, PhD candidate, published in Molecular Pain

Jacob Beierle, Biomolecular Pharmacology PhD candidate in the Laboratory of Addiction Genetics under the mentorship of Dr. Camron Bryant, published his article, “Genetic basis of thermal nociceptive sensitivity and brain weight in a BALB/c reduced complexity cross”, in Molecular Pain on January 28, 2022.  In order to better understand the genetics of pain, Jacob and […]

Melvin Zhang, PhD candidate, published in the Journal of Immunology

Melvin Zhang, PhD candidate in the part-time Industrial-Biomolecular Pharmacology Training Program under the mentorship of Dr. Marion T. Kasaian in Pfizer Inc., published his dissertation work in the Journal of Immunology on December 15, 2021. In their research, utilizing Il13-/- mice, Melvin and his collaborators showed that a cell communication molecule IL-13 regulates the activity […]

November 16, 2018 BU Pharmacology-Biogen Symposium: Innovations in Neuroscience Discovery

Innovations in Neuroscience Drug Discovery Friday, November 16th 2018, 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. BU Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics – Biogen Symposium Biogen, 300 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA  02142 Free and open to the public.  REGISTRATION Registration has now closed.  There is no onsite registration. BU-Biogen Symposium booklet_20181107_230pm LOCATION/PARKING MAP Registration and Breakfast David H. […]

David Waxman Receives The Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism for Research on Sex Differences in Drug Metabolism

David J. Waxman, Ph.D., Boston University Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology and Medicine, was awarded the Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) at their 2018 annual meeting in San Diego, California. The award was presented to Dr. Waxman for his research on “Sex […]

Andrieu and Denis paper featured as Editor’s Pick/Cover Story in April 2018 Issue of Molecular Cancer Research

A paper by Boston University investigators, Guillaume Andrieu, Ph.D. and Gerald V. Denis, Ph.D., has been selected as the Cover Story and Editor’s Pick for Rapid Impact in the April 2018 Issue of Molecular Cancer Research. BET Proteins Exhibit Transcriptional Function Opposition in the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition reports on research carried out on inhibitors of the […]

Boston University ranks in top ten for most employable graduates

Business On Campus – Click for article Rank 2017 University Country Score Rank 2016 Change THE World University Ranking 2018 1 California Institute of Technology United States 681 1 0 3 2 Harvard University United States 643 3 1 6 3 Columbia University United States 615 12 9 14 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States […]

Yoonjoo Lee and two additional students, Alissa Frame and Cassie Moore, receive NRSAs – Individual Predoctoral Fellowships

Yoonjoo Lee Awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship from NEI (F30) Yoonjoo Lee, an M.D./Ph.D. graduate student in the Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology, has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Eye Institute. Her pre-doctoral research is on “The Role of Sustained Oscillations of the Wound […]