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Richard Wainford Named International Society for Hypertension New Investigator for December
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Wainford on being selected as the International Society for Hypertension’s December 2012 New Investigator. Richard recently received recognition for presenting the Best Poster at the 2nd International Society for Hypertension New Investigators Symposium. Dr. Wainford is an assistant professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine, Division of […]
Shelley J. Russek, Ph.D. Participates in Transcriptomics: Assessing Genomic Networks in Normal and Diseased Brains Short Course at 2012 SfN Annual Meeting
Congratulations to Dr. Shelley J. Russek on her participation in “Transcriptomics: Assessing Genomic Networks in Normal and Diseased Brains” Short Course #1 at the 2012 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting on October 12, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Russek co-chaired the Group 2 Breakout Session on “RNA-seq Insights into Complex Diseases.” Dr. Russek is […]
Cottone/Sabino Laboratory of Addictive Disorders Paper is NIDAIRP Hot Paper
“Antagonism of Sigma-1 Receptors Blocks Compulsive-Like Eating,” a paper in the November 2012 issue of Neuropsychopharmacology, coauthored by Drs. Pietro Cottone, Valentina Sabino and members of their Laboratory of Addictive Disorders, is November’s Featured Paper on the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s Intramural Research Program “Hot Paper” website. Congratulations on job well done! For more […]
$10.5 million bolsters breast cancer research at BUSM
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 is the recipient of a $9.5 million endowment to “understand the causes of breast cancer and develop prevention strategies and new treatments.” […]
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 […]