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Dr. Benjamin Wolozin Receives Alzheimer’s Association Zenith Fellows Award
From the Office of the Dean: I am pleased to share that Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology and Neurology, was awarded the Alzheimer’s Association Zenith Fellows Award. Initiated in 1991, the award provides support for cutting edge basic science or biomedical research that addresses fundamental problems related to early detection, etiology pathogenesis, treatment and/or prevention […]
BU Pharmacology Trainee Discovers FDA Approved Treatment for MS
Kenneth J. Rhodes, Ph.D., Vice President of Neurology Discovery at Biogen Idec and an alumni of the Boston University Pharmacology Training Program, led the team of researchers that developed Tecfidera, an oral medication that defends against relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Tecfidera, also known as dimethyl fumarate, for treating […]
2013 Pfizer Symposium – “Therapeutic Innovation: Oxidative Stress and the Next Generation of Discovery
Please click here for the 2013 BU-Pfizer Symposium program book PDF file. Boston University Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics – Pfizer Symposium Tuesday, November 5, 2013 8am to 7pm Boston University Trustee Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor, Boston, MA For more information, please contact Ms. Sara Johnson at pharm3@bu.edu or 617-638-4302.
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 […]