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Kendra Kobrin receives Carl E. Rosow Award for Pharmacology Education
Kendra Kobrin, M.D., Ph.D. candidate in Pharmacology, received the Carl E. Rosow Award for Pharmacology Education at the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics New Faculty & New Student Reception held on 19 September. Kendra graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston University in 2008 with Bachelor degrees in both Psychology and Music. Following graduation, she […]
September 2013 issue of The Pharmacologist now available
The September 2013 issue of The Pharmacologist is now available online. Read about new Executive Officer Judith A. Siuciak, some thoughts from President Rick Neubig, the program for the Joint ASPET/Chinese Pharmacological Society Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2014, and more. Be sure to check it out! In this issue: Introduction to new ASPET President, Judith […]
Wendy Wei Qiao Qiu, M.D., Ph.D., receives J&J CIAP Award
Dr. Wendy Wei Qiao Qiu was chosen to receive the 2013 Johnson & Johnson Clinical Innovation Award Program (J&J CIAP) award. According to the BU Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship & Commercialization website, the J&J CIAP was designed to “stimulate innovative solutions to unmet clinical challenges emerging from the Boston University medical community” by funding research […]
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 […]
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 […]