Innovation Labs place a diverse group of investigators in an intensive 5-day workshop to design creative and audacious new research approaches. The next lab is hosted by Vanderbilt and will be at the Airlie Conference Center April 23-27, 2018. Staying Power: Developing Lifestyle Interventions that Last The theme of Innovation Lab Vanderbilt is Staying Power: Developing Lifestyle […]
Friday, March 9, 2018; 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA Keynote: Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, Health Advocacy Breakout Session Proposals Due: Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:00 PM Theme suggestions for Breakout Sessions include: health disparities, underserved populations, patient-centered communication, community clinic partnerships, social media, environmental health, obtaining funding, methods and tools […]
Key Dates Release Date: October 18, 2017 Application Deadline: November 27, 2017 Scientific Merit Review: November 29 2017 Funding Decision Date: December 3 2017 Earliest Start Date: January 1, 2018 PURPOSE OF THIS SPECIFIC RFA The Wing Tat Lee endowment will support collaborations between BUSM faculty members in BUSM space and faculty at a mainland […]
Our upcoming information sessions are an excellent opportunity to explore your ideas for transforming learning at BU using digital technology. We fund and co-manage pilot projects that have the potential to positively change the way in which one or more of BU’s schools and colleges deliver value to students, both inside and outside the classroom. […]
The Research Recruitment and Retention program would like to welcome Dr. Christina Yarrington as the newest member of our team. Tina joins us from the Maternal Fetal Medicine division in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Prior to medical school and residency at BU, her professional life centered on community service in Boston, including the American Red Cross […]
WASHINGTON — Back in March, when President Trump released the first draft of his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, he asked lawmakers for deep cuts to one of their favorite institutions, the National Institutes of Health — part of a broad reordering of priorities, away from science and social spending, toward defense and border security. […]
Darrell Kotton, Gustavo Mostoslavsky, and George Murphy began the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) in 2008 with a mission. It was not to win a Nobel Prize, launch more spin-offs than their peers, or make megabucks and retire at 35. Rather, their mantra was both humbler and grander: “decrease the burden of human suffering on the planet, […]
Investigators at Boston Medical Center identified two main problems there: 1) lack of an ample pool of community members representative of their diverse community to engage in the research process and/or prepared to serve as advocates, and 2) a lack of sustainable community-based communication platforms for distributing research information to their diverse urban community. With […]
Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will co-host a meeting titled “Head & Neck Cancer Symposium, Advances in Head and Neck Cancer: Immunotherapy and Precision Medicine” at Boston University on September 25, 2017. The meeting will bring clinicians and researchers together to discuss the latest developments in Head & Neck Cancer therapy and research. […]
DEADLINE: July 13, 2017 11:59PM Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center and the Crowd Innovation Laboratory at Harvard Business School invite you to participate in a new ideation challenge. Challenge: Can you identify a human health problem that might be resolved with big data and a computational solution? Are you working […]