Unraveling Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is an epidemic. It attacks the brain’s nerve cells, causing memory loss, behavioral changes, confusion, and deterioration of language skills. It affects more than five million Americans 65 and older, and that is expected to increase to 13.8 million by 2050 unless science finds a treatment. Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are […]
Hope for the Battle against Type 1 Diabetes
Benefit corporation founded by parents of children with the disease Ed Damiano (center) and members of new medical device company Beta Bionics, whose mission is to improve the health of people with type 1 diabetes: (from left) design engineers Raj Setty and Rob LeBourdais; senior engineer Firas El-Khatib; Ed Raskin, VP for public benefit development […]
BU’s Health-Related Schools Score in US News Rankings
MED gets its best-ever, Sargent’s OT is number one Research, like that done by Greg Wasserman (MED’16) (left) and Katrina Traber, a MED assistant professor, in BU’s Pulmonary Center, earned the School of Medicine a best-ever ranking from US News. Photo by Cydney Scott. BU schools that train healers of various stripes notched impressive showings […]
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 […]
Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill
Grad students learn to lobby for policy, funding Graduate students in the sciences learn how to advocate for science on Capitol Hill in the Making Our CASE: Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering workshops. Photo by Nicolas Raymond via Creative Commons license. The federal government funds about 80 percent of the research conducted at Boston […]
Diagnosing CTE During Life
$16 million to detect brain trauma disease in living victims Robert Stern, a MED professor and clinical core director of BU’s NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center. Photo courtesy of Stern. Researchers from Boston University, the Cleveland Clinic, the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been awarded a $16 million grant […]
BU Awarded $23.4 Million NIH Grant
For turning discoveries into treatments, diagnostics, improved health David Center directs Boston University’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute, which received an NIH renewal grant to help investigators on both campuses conduct multidisciplinary clinical research. Photo by Cydney Scott. BU’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has been awarded a $23.4 million, four-year National Institutes of […]
Could Pee-Wee Football Lead to Brain Injury?
MED study: more brain damage in NFL players who started playing early The new MED study is the first to show a link between early exposure to repetitive head impacts and structural brain changes later in life. Photo courtesy of Flickr contributor Captrosha. Last January, HBO’s Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel interviewed former NFL coach and player […]
Gut Reactions
New grants put software to work on bioenergy and human microbiome Daniel Segrè, associate professor of bioinformatics, biomedical engineering and biology, uses mathematical modeling to understand the microbiome. Photo by Cydney Scott. Daniel Segrè studies very unusual microbes. They don’t live in petri dishes, guts, or on dirty kitchen countertops. In fact, they don’t live […]
Molecule Makers
A unique chemical library offers new hope for hard-to-treat diseases By Kate Becker and photos by Dan Aguirre. Can a molecule be beautiful? As director of BU’s Center for Molecular Discovery (CMD), John Porco has helped to create some 7,000 new molecules. To a chemist’s eye, their ornate “architecture” makes them beautiful, says Porco. But […]