Junior Faculty Win Career Development Professorships
Hui Feng spends a lot of time staring through zebra fish. Through because these vertebrates, which have a great deal of genetics in common with humans, are transparent. In fact, one particular breed, called Casper—after the Friendly Ghost—is so phantasmal that Feng says that “you can read newspapers through this fish.” Feng doesn’t read the […]
Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu honored by Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative
The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) honored Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu, Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology, last week for his continued efforts in Alzheimer’s disease research. AAQI is a national grassroots charity that raises awareness and funds research through the donation and sale of small art quilts. Marge Farquharson and Dawn Forde, AAQI representatives, visited the […]
Dr. Rachel Flynn Receives Award from FOSTER Foundation
Rachel L. Flynn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and a member of The Cancer Center, was awarded a $50,000 grant for the coming year from the FOSTER (Fighting Osteosarcoma Through Everyday Research) Foundation. Dr. Flynn was recruited to BU from the […]
Dr. Richard Wainford to give presentation at 3rd Annual ISH New Investigators’ Symposium
Richard D. Wainford, Ph.D., F.A.H.A., Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, and a member of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, has been selected to give an oral presentation at the 3rd annual International Society of Hypertension’s New Investigators’ Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 10, 2013. His presentation […]
Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., selected as next chair of CMND for 2013-2015
Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., was selected as the next chair of the National Institutes of Health Cellular and Molecular Biology of Neurodegeneration Study Section. Dr. Wolozin is a professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Neurology, Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Neurodegeneration and member of The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center. […]
Neurochemical Traffic Signals May Open New Avenues for the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have uncovered important clues about a biochemical pathway in the brain that may one day expand treatment options for schizophrenia. The study, published online in the journal Molecular Pharmacology, was led by faculty within the department of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics at BUSM. Patients with schizophrenia suffer from […]
Bioscience Academy student Zainab Mahmod awarded the Paul Queenan Memorial Award for academic excellence
Bioscience Academy student Zainab Mahmod has been awarded the Paul Queenan Memorial Award for academic excellence. Zainab completed her internship in the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology under the mentorship of Dr. Marcia Ratner. Upon completion of the Bioscience Academy program requirements, Zainab received a Certificate in Applied Biotechnology. The BioScience Academy is a BU-based federally funded program administered […]
Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., selected to receive the Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium Award
Congratulations to Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., who was selected to receive the Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium Award for his proposal to identify the target(s) of action of the TDP-43 inclusion-inhibitory compounds that he has identified. The Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium, “is designed to accelerate pre-clinical research available to the pharmaceutical industry, introduce, academic researchers to the challenges of […]
Anurag Singh, Ph.D., receives the American Lung Association Lung Cancer Discovery Award
Congratulations to Anurag Singh, Ph.D., on being awarded the competitive American Lung Association Lung Cancer Discovery Award for his proposal on “Identifying a KRAS-Regulated Micro-RNA Signaling Network in Lung Cancer.” According to Dr. Singh, “KRAS mutant lung cancers are notoriously refractory to chemotherapeutic agents. This research proposal will seek to identify novel strategies for the […]
Congratulations to Graduating Biomolecular Pharmacology Students!
Featured from left to right: Jiang-Fan Chen, M.D./Ph.D., Catherine Wei, M.D./Ph.D., Carol T. Walsh, Ph.D., and Catherine’s parents Six students in the Biomolecular Pharmacology Program were honored at graduation ceremonies this past weekend for earning their M.A., Ph.D., or M.D./Ph.D. degrees. Our congratulations go to them for their academic accomplishments, their discoveries through thesis or dissertation research, and their […]