Dr. Zhen Jiang’s New C2 Domain Discovery in April Molecular and Cell Biology’s “Selected as Article of Significant Interest . . . by the Editors”

Zhen Y. Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., and his research group, have discovered a new C2 domain containing phosphoprotein CDP138 that is important for membrane trafficking. Membrane Trafficking Protein CDP138 Regulates Fat Browning and Insulin Sensitivity through Controlling Catecholamine Release in the April 2018 edition of Molecular and Cellular Biology and featured in Articles of Significant Interest Selected […]

Marc Vittoria Receives NCI F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Award

Marc Vittoria, M.D./Ph.D. Graduate Student in the Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology, has been awarded an F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute. Marc’s thesis research, “Defining Novel Mechanisms of Genome Instability in BRAF-mutant Melanoma,” is being carried out in the Laboratory of Cancer Cell Biology under the mentorship of […]

Alissa Frame and Franco Puleo Receive 2018 Caroline tum Suden/Francis A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award

Alissa Frame and Franco Puleo, Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology Ph.D. graduate students are recipients of 2018 Caroline tum Suden/Francis A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Awards by The American Physiological Society.  They will formally receive their awards at the 2018 Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in San Diego in late April. Alissa and Franco are conducting the Ph.D. thesis […]

Kevin Clayton Awarded F31 NRSA from the National Institute on Aging

Kevin Clayton has been awarded an F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Aging. The title of his Ph.D. thesis research is “TREM12-TYROBP coupling modulation for the reduction of Alzheimer’s-mediated neuroinflammation: a novel pharmacologic therapy.” Kevin, a Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology Ph.D. graduate student, is conducting his thesis research […]

Brandon Maziuk Awarded NINDS F31 NRSA

Congratulations to Brandon Maziuk on receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Brandon is a PhD graduate student in the NIGMS supported Biomolecular Pharmacology Training Program. His F31 application is titled “Dysfunction of mRNA Metabolism in Tauopathy,” and this award will support this research over […]

Dr. Pietro Cottone Speaks at The Royal Society’s “Of Mice and Mental Health: Facilitating Dialogue Between Basic and Clinical Neuroscientists”

Pietro Cottone, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, made a presentation on the “Neurobiology of Compulsive Eating” at The Royal Society’s “Of Mice and Mental Health: Facilitating Dialogue Between Basic and Clinical Neuroscientists” in London on April 24-25, 2017. Based upon his current research, Dr. Cottone and his research group in the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders […]

Brandon Maziuk Selected by the BU BEST Program as BU Representative to the AAAS CASE Workshop in Washington, DC

Brandon Maziuk, a Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology PhD graduate student, has been selected as one of two students by the Boston University Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program to represent Boston University at the AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy for Science and Engineering (CASE) Workshop in Washington, DC, April 2-5, 2017. Brandon was chosen from a […]