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200 +

companies developing and selling products based on BU discoveries

$ 574.25 M

total research awards in FY25

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Featured Researchers

Meet the brilliant minds behind our groundbreaking research.

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  • Wilson Wong

    Wilson W. Wong

    College of Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Cheryl Knott

    Cheryl Knott

    College of Arts & Sciences Professor, Anthropology, Biology, and Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies
  • Nathan Jones

    Nathan Jones

    Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Associate Dean of Research Professor, Special Education
  • Venetia Zachariou

    Venetia Zachariou

    Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Edward Avedisian Professor and Chair, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Marcus A. Winters

    Marcus A. Winters

    Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Chair and Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Faculty Director, Wheelock Educational Policy Center
  • Deborah Carr

    Deborah Carr

    College of Arts & Sciences A&S Distinguished Professor, Sociology Director, Center of Innovation in Social Science
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    Darrell Kotton

    Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University
  • Image of Lucy Hutyra

    Lucy Hutyra

    College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, Chair, Earth & Environment
  • Daniel Taub

    Daniel Taub

    Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Elizabeth Bettini

    Elizabeth Bettini

    Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Associate Professor, Special Education
  • Tommaso Ranzani

    Tommaso Ranzani

    College of Engineering Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering
  • Jo R. King

    Jo R. King

    Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
  • Headshot of Michael Albro

    Michael Albro

    Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Kenneth Lutchen

    Kenneth Lutchen

    Vice President and Associate Provost for Research
  • Thomas Bifano

    Thomas Bifano

    College of Engineering Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering Director, Photonics Center
  • David Bishop

    David Bishop

    College of Engineering Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, Materials Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Director, CELL-MET Engineering Research Center
  • Keith Brown

    Keith A. Brown

    College of Engineering Division Head, Materials Science & Engineering Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Physics
  • Daniel Cifuentes

    Daniel Cifuentes

    Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Associate Professor, Biochemistry, and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology
  • Yuwei Fan

    Yuwei Fan

    Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Research Associate Professor and Research Operations Director, Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials
  • Headshot of Miguel Jimenez

    Miguel Jimenez

    College of Engineering Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
  • John A. Porco, Jr.

    John A. Porco, Jr.

    College of Arts & Sciences Samour Family Professor, Organic Chemistry Director, Center for Molecular Discovery
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BU Ignition Award Winners’ Innovations Could Reduce Knee Pain, Extend Lives of Cancer Patients, and Propel Underwater Robots

Annual entrepreneurship awards given to research projects ready to make the leap from the lab to real-world impact

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