Insider Insights PUBLIC RELATIONS CASE STUDY Sparking a National Dialogue on Mental Health In August, BU public health researchers Sarah Lipson and Julia Raifman published a first-of-its-kind mental health study that made waves on social media and in traditional outlets.
October 31, 2019 Director’s Message NIH recently awarded $945 million through the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-termSM Initiative, or NIH HEAL InitiativeSM, to support 375 projects across the country in developing and applying evidence-based solutions to reverse the national opioid crisis. NCATS Director Christopher P. Austin, M.D., describes the NIH HEAL Initiative and highlights […]
SAVE THE DATE! CTSA Shared Mentoring Symposium Friday, January 31, 8AM – 12PMTufts University Health Sciences Campus, Boston Please join us for a morning of networking, panel discussions,and one-to-one mentoring. Agenda 8:00 – 8:45 Working Breakfast / Networking 8:45 – 9:00 […]
Monday, October 7th, 2019 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wasserstein Hall, Milstein EastHarvard Law School1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge To learn more check out the flyer below! PEPFAR flyer
A BIOMED HACKATHON AT UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER NOVEMBER 8 – 10, 2019 The UT Southwestern Medical Center together with community partners NCBI and Mark III Systems, will host a biomedical hackathon in Dallas. Focused on computational solutions for clinical medicine and genomics, this event is for developers, engineers and researchers at all career levels. […]
Jesse Mez, MD, MS, assistant professor of neurology at BUSM, has received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the United States Department of Defense to study the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and military service on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. Dr. Mez, who also serves as Associate Director of the BU Alzheimer’s Disease […]
Jesse Mez Receives DoD Grant to Study Role of TBI and Military Service in Alzheimer’s Disease Jesse Mez, MD, MS, assistant professor of neurology at BUSM, has received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the United States Department of Defense to study the impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and military service on Alzheimer’s disease […]
Natural Language Processing Symposium – FINAL Program
Dr. Traci Bethea, a 2017 KL2 Scholar was recently funded a K01. The K01 award, titled “An assessment of whether aspirin and/or vitamin D improves breast cancer outcomes in Black women and the modifying effect of genetic variants,” is funded by the National Cancer Institute and supports Dr. Bethea’s career development and research activities for […]