Alzheimer’s Start-up Gets $1.49 Million from NIH
Collaboration between MED prof, husband Carmela and Menachem Abraham collaborated on a start-up to develop novel therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. Klogene Therapeutics, Inc., recently won a $1.49 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Carmela Abraham came home one day three years ago from her BU lab, where she has […]
BU BioScience Academy Graduates 15
Year of intensive study and internships launch Class of 2016 in new career field View the slideshow to meet the 2016 graduates of BU’s BIoScience Academy certificate program. (Not pictured: Nandita Bhattacharaya). Photos by Cydney Scott. When Jesse Logan applied for a certificate program in applied biotechnology at BU’s BioScience Academy (BSA), she was at loose […]
DC Panel: Talking Football, War, and Brain Disease
Members of the panel on brain injuries hosted by BU President Robert A. Brown in Washington last Thursday: Ann McKee, a MED professor of neurology and pathology (from left), Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, NFL Hall of Famer Mike Haynes, and panel moderator Bob Tedeschi, senior writer for online health and […]
UROP Student’s Project: A Thinking Robot
Self-directed ‘bot can identify objects In the following video, watch Emily Fitzgerald’s artificially intelligent robot. “That is a ball.” “I do believe that is a cone.” “Seems like a wonderful book.” The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But […]
Math Neuroscience Prof Wins NSF CAREER Award
Mark Kramer explores brain mechanisms behind epileptic seizures By Sara Rimer Mark Kramer is the third member of BU’s mathematics and statistics department to win an NSF CAREER award in the past five years. Photo by Vernon Doucette. Mark Kramer, an associate professor of mathematical neuroscience in Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences, has […]
Untangling the Connectome
Narayanan “Bobby” Kasthuri on how our wiring makes us human By: Barbara Moran Bobby Kasthuri needs a map. Not your everyday, get-me-to-Kenmore-Square kind of map. He’s got something else in mind. What Kasthuri needs is a map of all the connections in the human brain—kind of a wiring diagram for neurons. Kasthuri, an assistant professor […]
Beating the Binge
Alzheimer’s drug may reduce urge to eat compulsively BU professors Pietro Cottone and Valentina Sabino hope their research could eventually lead to new treatment for the disorder. Photo by Michael D. Spencer. Binge-eating disorder affects nearly 10 million American adults, by some estimates. It’s a vicious condition in which people repeatedly eat huge amounts of […]
Diverse Disciplines Team Up for Neuroscience
NSF grant for new BU initiative will help bring data together Michael Hasselmo wants to link neuroscience data from many fields. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Neuroscience is changing fast. Increasingly powerful imaging now allows researchers to scan brain structures with exquisite detail and make surprising discoveries about how neurons grow, interact, and die. At the […]