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$10.5 million bolsters breast cancer research at BUSM
Photo of Singh by Kalman Zabarsky. Photo of Feng by Vernon Doucette Anurag Singh, Ph.D., and Hui Feng, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professors in the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, work in the Dahod Breast Cancer Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine. The research center […]
Richard Wainford honored with Best Presented Poster Award at the 2nd International Society of Hypertension New Investigators Symposium
Last month, Dr. Richard Wainford attended the 2nd International Society of Hypertension New Investigators Symposium in Sydney Australia. Sponsored by the International Society of Hypertension, the New Investigators Symposium honors promising new investigators (within 10 years of graduation) who have made significant scientific contributions in the field of hypertension. For more information on Dr. Wainford and […]
Angelo Blasio presents at annual SfN Meeting: “Addiction Drug Could Curb Binge Eating”
Angelo Blasio, a Post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders, presented this past week at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans. Yahoo!News featured his research in an article shortly thereafter: “For the study, rats were turned into binge eaters consuming about four times as much food as other rats by being fed a […]
Max Wallack Awarded Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
Max Wallack, a Research Intern in the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics in the Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry and Aging at Boston University School of Medicine, has been awarded the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes. According to their website: “Max founded Puzzles to Remember, a non-profit organization that has distributed over 14,600 puzzles […]
Dr. Richard Wainford Selected to Present at 2nd ISH New Investigators’ Symposium
Richard D. Wainford, Ph.D., has been selected to present his research at the 2nd International Society of Hypertension (ISH) New Investigators Symposium in Sydney, Australia on Saturday, September 26, 2012. Dr. Wainford’s oral presentation will be on “GPCR stimulated hypothalamic PVN GαI2 protein-gated pathways – the key to renal sympathetic nerve mediated sodium homeostasis and […]
Martin D. Leach, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer at the Broad Institute
Dr. Leach received a 1st class honor degree in cellular and molecular science from Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. in 1989 and worked under Dr. Tim Crowe at the Clinical Research Center in Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK as part of the UK Medical Research Council. He studied under Dr. David H. Farb and […]
NIH Director Extols the Benefits of Basic Research
“In a Science magazine editorial published on August 3rd, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins pledged that the agency will “continue its strong tradition of supporting basic research.” He cited examples of NIH-funded basic research that led to major advances in the life sciences and pointed out that “today’s basic research is the engine […]
Richard Wainford Appointed to the American Physiological Society’s Committee on Communication
Richard D. Wainford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and a member of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, has been appointed to the American Physiological Society’s Committee on Communication. His three year term begins January 1, 2013. Dr. Wainford joined the BUSM faculty in October 2012 and has quickly distinguished himself […]
Ben Wolozin to Speak on Stress Granules and Neurodegeneration in Bregenz, Austria and Dublin, Ireland
Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology will speak on “Viewing neurodegeneration beyond the tangle: Stress granules and neurodegeneration” July 29 through August 3, 2012 at the Eleventh International Symposium on Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Aging. Dr. Wolozin will also make a presentat on “Stress granules in neurodegenerative disorders” in Scientific Session 6: […]
Tara Vanderweyde, Benjamin Wolozin “Contrasting Pathology of Stress Granule Protein . . .” Paper featured in Alzheimer Research Forum
“Contrasting Pathology of the Stress Granule Proteins TIA-1 and G3BP in Tauopathies,” has been highlighted on the Alzheimer Research Forum web site. Authored by Tara Vanderweyde, Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology Ph.D. Candidate, Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology, et al., the paper was published in the June 13, 2012 issue of the […]