Hartwell Award Honors ENG Assistant Professor Miguel Jimenez for Advancing Next-Generation Microbial Medicine

“Jimenez is leading a lab that intersects synthetic biology, biomedical engineering, and advanced technology. His interdisciplinary approach recently earned him the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which supports innovative early-stage biomedical research with the potential to improve children’s health. For Jimenez, the award will help accelerate one of the lab’s most promising efforts: developing new […]

Antreas Charidimou, Assistant Professor of Neurology at CAMED, Receives $9M Grant from Leducq Foundation

Charidimou is an assistant professor of neurology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the assistant medical director for the BU Center for Brain Recovery. He will co-lead the project with his international collaborator Marcel Verbeek, PhD, MSc, from Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands). BU is the leading coordinating center. The goal of […]

Casey Taft, Professor of Psychiatry at MED, awarded grant from Arnold Ventures to fund “Evaluating Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Use in Washington State.”

Casey Taft has been awarded a $298,139 grant from Arnold Ventures to fund his 4-year project, “Evaluating Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Use in Washington State.” Using this grant money from Arnold Ventures, Taft and his team will compare the effectiveness of different interventions using data analysis to examine reductions in primary outcome of physical […]

Ayse Lokmanoglu, Assistant Professor at COM, wins prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Ayse Lokmanoglu is studying a key crossroads in our cultural moment: political polarization and how it’s fed by online images, including those generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Lokmanoglu, a BU College of Communication assistant professor of emerging media studies, will spend two years investigating how images “spread online during politically charged moments like elections, and […]