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Infectious Diseases

COVID and Flu

Should You—and Can You—Get a COVID-19 Shot This Fall?

September 24, 2025

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NEIDL

Renowned Virologist Robert A. Davey to Lead NEIDL, BU’s Infectious Diseases Research Hub

May 27, 2025

Infectious Diseases

What’s It Like to Be an Infectious Diseases Outbreak Responder?

May 14, 2025

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Global Health

BU Launches an Open-Source Infectious Diseases Monitoring Tool Powered by AI and Human Experts

April 23, 2025

Global Health

“It’s Unacceptable”: BU Mathematician Tracks How Many Deaths May Result from USAID, Medicaid Cuts

March 20, 2025

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Bird Flu

How Worried Should You Be About Bird Flu?

March 17, 2025

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Infectious Diseases

Scientists Study People Who Never Had COVID

March 17, 2025

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Pandemics

Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? 5 Reasons to Feel Confident—and 5 to Be Worried

March 11, 2025

Research

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

December 13, 2024

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NEIDL

West Nile, Zika, Coronavirus: This BU Researcher Is Taking On Some of the World’s Most Serious Viruses—and He Plans to Win

November 21, 2024

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Kilachand Awards

2024 Kilachand Fund Awards Boost Projects Building Antivirus Platform, Improving Brain Imaging, and Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

November 13, 2024

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Infectious Diseases

BU’s Leading Home for Infectious Diseases Research to Get Major Upgrade with NIH Grant

October 29, 2024

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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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Antimicrobial Resistance

Italian Government Gives $21 Million to BU-Led Effort to Develop New Antibiotics, Vaccines, Diagnostics

October 22, 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

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Self-Amplifying RNA

A New Type of RNA Could Revolutionize Vaccines and Cancer Treatments

September 9, 2024

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COVID-19

COVID-19 Photo Contest Winners Capture Moments of Joy, Sorrow, Meaning in Crisis

May 1, 2024

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Bird Flu

The H5N1 Bird Flu Is a Growing Threat for Farm Animals and Humans—How Serious Is It?

April 26, 2024

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Measles

How Worried Should We Be about US Measles Outbreaks?

March 29, 2024

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Antibiotic Resistance

CARB-X Funds 100th Project—a Milestone for BU-Based Nonprofit Leading Antimicrobial-Resistance Fightback

March 6, 2024

CARB-X Funds 100th Project—a Milestone for BU-Based Nonprofit Leading Antimicrobial-Resistance Fightback