BU Promotes Diversity in STEM Fields with NSF Grants
At MED, students from underrepresented groups learn about careers beyond medicine BU has three National Science Foundation grants to promote diversity in STEM fields; the principal investigators are Linda Hyman, associate provost for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences (from left), Sarah Hokanson, director of professional development and postdoctoral affairs, and Pamela Templer, a CAS […]
Count Love Project Reveals Protest Patterns
BU student’s website tracks all demonstrations against current administration Earlier this year Tommy Leung (left) and Nathan Perkins (MED’18) launched a website that chronicles all protests against the current administration, hoping to give the data to government officials as evidence of the issues their constituents are passionate about. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Meet Tommy Leung […]
Three from BU MED Attend Congressional Forum on Traumatic Brain Injuries
On Friday, October 13, 2017, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) held a joint Democratic Forum to review recent studies highlighting the advances in sports research on traumatic brain injuries due to contact sports and pathways to move forward. During the forum members from […]
Three NSF Grants Will Promote Diversity in STEM
Medical school will guide students from underrepresented groups to career paths beyond medicine Left to right: Linda Hyman, associate provost for MED’s Division of Graduate Medical Sciences; Sarah Hokanson, BU director of professional development and postdoctoral affairs, and Pamela Templer, a CAS professor of biology, are each principal investigators on National Science Foundation grants aimed […]
BU Researchers ID Possible Biomarker for Diagnosing CTE during Life
MED’s Ann McKee calls findings a hopeful step Ann McKee (left), director of BU’s CTE Center, and Jonathan Cherry, a School of Medicine postdoctoral fellow, have written a study, published Tuesday, reporting that a new chronic traumatic encephalopathy biomarker has been discovered that could potentially allow diagnosis of the disease during life. Photo by Cydney […]
BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center Wins $5.4 Million NIH Grant
Will fund research on early diagnostics, genetic risk factors, interventions Andrew Budson directs the Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s National Institutes of Health–funded efforts to educate clinicians and the public in better understanding the disease and related disorders as well as to encourage people to participate in research. Photo by Cydney Scott. The National Institute on Aging, […]
Shipley Center Website Offers Prostate Cancer Facts for Patients
Gift from alum and trustee funds research and information warehouse One in every seven men in the United States will get prostate cancer, making it the second most common type, after skin cancer, for American men. It tends to be a slow-growing disease, but can sprint to life-threatening severity if detected too late. Screening for […]
BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center
Goal is personalized heart tissue for clinical use A cardiac patch. The ERC’s ultimate goal is to advance nano-bio-manufacturing methods that could lead to large-scale fabrication of functional heart tissue, which could replace diseased or damaged muscle after a heart attack. Illustration courtesy of Jeroen Eyckmans. Boston University has won a $20 million, five-year award […]
MED Gives High Schoolers a Jump on Health Careers
Enrichment program for Boston’s underrepresented minorities Danny Truong (left), a British International School of Boston senior, and Brandon Hector, a Boston Latin Academy senior, work on a sickle cell experiment as part of the Youth to Health Careers (Y2HC) program at the School of Medicine. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Although he is more cheerful and […]
MED Neuroscience Program Gives Undergrads Experience and Insight
Integrates research, hands-on neuroanatomy, and neurosurgery University of Michigan senior Rachel Feltman (from left), Colgate senior Courtney Dunphy, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign junior Madeline McDevitt with the cadaver brains that have been donated to MED. Photo by Cydney Scott. From their looks of cheerful expectation, you might think the eight undergraduates gathered around […]