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Cancer

Ph.D Candidate, Ariane Garrett demonstrates how to use a cuff-less blood pressure monitor

Photonics

What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure?

January 8, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

Ph.D Candidate, Ariane Garrett demonstrates how to use a cuff-less blood pressure monitor

Optical Technology

Using Light to Monitor Blood Pressure and Track Cancer Treatment Progress

November 7, 2024

Photo: A cross section of a rat brain that is vibrant purple with blue highlights

Research News

Brink Bites: From Microscopic Worlds to Cancer Disparities

October 29, 2024

Photo: Exterior of the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering

Funding Health Research

How ARPA-H Is Accelerating Funding in Biomedical, Medicine, and Health Research—and How BU’s Scientists Can Benefit

October 24, 2024

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Awards

BU Biomedical Engineer Wins a 2024 National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Award

October 8, 2024

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Research News

Brink Bites: BU Research Beyond the Headlines

October 1, 2024

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Inauguration 2024

Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World

September 25, 2024

Photo: Exterior shot of BU's Center for Data Sciences, a jenga shaped glass building that stands tall in the Boston Skyline on a sunny day as cars drive by on Commonwealth ave

Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

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Accolades

Three BU Scholars Receive 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships

February 20, 2024

Photo: A small black medical device used for detecting skin cancer

Skin Cancer

Innocent Mole or Skin Cancer? FDA Clears Device with BU-Developed Technology That Makes Detection Easier

February 8, 2024

Photo: Doctor with gloved hand holds IV for chemotherapy treatment.

Cancer

New Cancer Cases Are Expected to Pass 2 Million This Year. What Does That Mean for All of Us?

January 30, 2024

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Black Women’s Health

Racism, Sexism, and the Crisis of Black Women’s Health

October 31, 2023

Photo: Group photo of the 2023 Kilachand Fund Award winners. Posing from left to right are: Brian Clearly, Hadi Nia, Jospeh Mizgerd, and Michael Economo. Four men smile and pose together in a brightly lit room.

Kilachand Awards

Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects

October 3, 2023

Photo: Aerial shot of Boston University's campus during sunset. An orange glow is shown on the large campus highlighting campus buildings like Kilachand.

Accolades

BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More

September 19, 2023

Photo: Boston University SAR Assistant Professor of Nutrition Maura Walker, a white woman wearing a red shirt and black cardigan, poses for a photo at Bazaar Supermarket in Cambridge on May 5, 2023. She is doing cutting-edge nutrition research on topics including the gut microbiome, precision nutrition, and nutrigenomics. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

Nutrition

Secrets of the Microbiome

May 26, 2023

Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets

May 16, 2023

Photo: A doctor explains the Mammogram Procedure to a Topless Medium-skin toned Patient with Curly Hair Undergoing Mammography Scan.

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Screenings Should Now Begin at Age 40

May 12, 2023

Photo: Engineering Professor, Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng, an Asian man wearing a grey pullover sweater, poses for a photo in his lab. A blue light gives the photo a cool-themed feel as Cheng looks to the left and stands in front of a table full of various mechanical engineering equipment.

Innovator of the Year

Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2023

Collage: (left) Ji-Xin Cheng poses against a blue background. An Asian man wearing a light blue checkered collared shirt smiles and poses with arms crossed. (right) Lei Tian stands and poses in his lab. An Asian man wearing glasses and a gray collared shirt smiles and poses with one arm resting on top of a microscope.

Accolades

Two BU Researchers Receive over $1 Million Each in Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

January 24, 2023

Two BU Researchers Receive over $1 Million Each in Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative