Getting Their Hands Dirty in the Lab – and in the Charles River
Undergraduate students are studying antibiotic-resistant bacteria collected from the Charles to find out if lab work is right for them.
BU’s New Center on Forced Displacement Will Address the Global Refugee Crisis
The center hopes to bring in talent from across the University with research projects spanning the arts to medical technology.
Can We Prevent Antibiotic Resistance?
Antibiotics are losing effectiveness—and millions are dying as a result. CARB-X, a BU-based partnership that aims to solve antimicrobial resistance, has been given up to $370 million in new funding from the US government and charitable foundation Wellcome.
LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics
Wellcome Trust gives $155M for nonprofit’s work on “huge global challenge” Kevin Outterson, LAW’s N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, the world’s largest public-private partnership working to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. A BU School of Law–based public-private partnership to spur the development of […]