Two BU Researchers, Liangliang Hao (ENG) and Ignaty Leshchiner (CAMED), receive Innovation Awards from American Lung Association
Liangliang Hao (ENG) wins for their project “Developing Innovative Early Detection Test for IPF” and Ignaty Leshchiner wins for their project, “Predicting When Lung Cancer Will Return.” The ALA Innovation Award provides $75,000/year for up to two years, and is geared toward independent investigators who are conducting basic science, behavioral, clinical or translational research in […]
John Templeton Foundation awards $5.2M to STH’s Steven Sandage to Shift Mental Health Focus Beyond Symptoms to Meaning and Well-Being
Sandage, the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion & Theology, and his team recently received a $5.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to fund an initiative on training psychotherapists to incorporate these ideas and new training and treatment research into their practices. Led by Sandage and Jesse Owen, a professor at the University […]
BU Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) partnering with the National Aphasia Association on PCORI Awarded Research
CBR team members Dr. Swathi Kiran and Madeline Dunne will be providing infrastructural support to conduct this research in coordination with project lead Maura Silverman, Executive Director of the NAA, and fellow collaborator Dr. Jacqueline Hinckley, from NSU.
Diana Anderson, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Receives Grant to Improve Resident Health in Nursing Homes
Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, assistant professor of neurology at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a $270,418 grant from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation for her project “Investigating the Relationship between Nursing Home Architecture and Health Outcomes.” The two-year grant is through the foundation’s Another Look program and […]
School of Theology receives $1M from Lilly Endowment to launch “New Wineskins Network”
The five-year initiative, co-led by Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd and Dr. Chad D. Moore, will strengthen partnerships among local congregations, clergy, and seminary leaders, addressing contemporary challenges facing pastors and seminarians while developing new models of ministry formation.
Ann McKee, Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Pathology, receives Zenith Fellows Award
The prestigious $450,000 award from the Alzheimer’s Association comes in support of Dr. McKee’s acceleration of research on CTE and dementia.
Brian DePasquale, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, receives inaugural Scialog Neurobiology award
The three-year project will use an AI approach to address the threat of climate change to marine ecosystems by predicting how marine species will respond to environmental stress.
Chair of Occupational Therapy receives PCORI funding to support engagement in research
Professor Emily Rothman will receive funding through PCORI’s Engagement Award Program for a project focused on improving colonoscopy access, participation and patient experience for autistic adults.
School of Theology professor receives $5.2M grant from Templeton Foundation
Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion & Theology Steven J. Sandage co-leads the project, which will develop training tools that integrate treatment research on relational virtues and human flourishing in psychotherapy.
Three Chemistry faculty receive Petroleum Research Fund grants
Assistant Professors Joseph DeRosa and Minjung Son both received Doctoral New Investigator Grants; Professor Linda Doerrer received a New Directions grant. The Petroleum Research Fund is an initiative of the American Chemical Society.