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Drs. Pietro Cottone and Valentina Sabino become U.S. citizens. Dr. Cottone Records Album/Shares Perspective in the Boston Globe and BU Today.

Congratulations to Drs. Pietro Cottone and Valentina Sabino who recently became U.S. citizens in a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum with approximately 200 other immigrants. Pietro and Valentina, natives of Italy, are Associate Professors in Pharmacology and Psychiatry and Co-Principal Investigators in the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders. Since joining Boston […]

Franco Puleo Receives the 2019-2020 American Physiology Society Porter Physiology Development Fellowship

Congratulations to Franco Puleo who has been awarded the 2019-2020 American Physiology Society Porter Physiology Development Fellowship. His research, “Sympathetic Nervous System Regulation of the NCC in Salt Sensitive Hypertension,” focuses on renal mechanisms of blood pressure control in salt sensitive hypertension. The Porter Physiology Development Fellowship provides Franco a year’s stipend support for his […]

Drs. Valentina Sabino, Camron Bryant, and Chris Gabel Among the 2019 Jack Spivack Excellence in Neuroscience Awards Recipients

Congratulations to Drs. Valentina Sabino, Camron Bryant, and Chris Gabel for being among the 2019 Jack Spivack Excellence in Neuroscience Awards recipients. Drs. Gabel and Sabino have been named as Spivack Emerging Leaders and Dr. Bryant has been honored as the Spivack Young Investgator. Valentina Sabino, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, is the […]

Emily Mason-Osann Receives PhRMA Foundation Pre Doctoral Fellowship

Emily Mason-Osann, a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology, has received a pre doctoral fellowship in pharmacology/toxicology from the PhRMA Foundation. The research proposed is titled, “Defining Mechanism and Therapeutic Targets in the Alternative Lengthening of the Telomeres Pathway.” She is pursuing her thesis research under the mentorship of Rachel L. […]

Dr. Wendy Qiu is corresponding author on BU Alzheimer’s Study Examining the Role of Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease

As reported in the Friday, October 19, 2018 edition of The Boston Globe, Boston University researchers published results of their study on the examining the role of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease in the journal JAMA Network Open. Per the abstract, the research objective was “To study the interaction between the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) genotype and […]

November 16, 2018 BU Pharmacology-Biogen Symposium: Innovations in Neuroscience Discovery

Innovations in Neuroscience Drug Discovery Friday, November 16th 2018, 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. BU Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics – Biogen Symposium Biogen, 300 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA  02142 Free and open to the public.  REGISTRATION Registration has now closed.  There is no onsite registration. BU-Biogen Symposium booklet_20181107_230pm LOCATION/PARKING MAP Registration and Breakfast David H. […]

Drs. Karen Harnett and Neil Ganem Honored as 2018 BUSM Educators of the Year

Karen Harnett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, and Neil J. Ganem, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology are among the nine recipients of 2018 BUSM Educator of the Year honors. Faculty were nominated for awards in each category by medical students and Division of Graduate Medical Sciences students. […]