Join us as we celebrate National Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week from April 7-11 by highlighting some of trainees’ research and personal interests. We will post two new Trainee Spotlights every day for National Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week 2025, so be sure to check back daily! Our Trainee Spotlights for Tuesday, April […]
April 7th – 11 is National Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week! Join us as we celebrate our graduate students and highlight some of their research and personal interests. We will post two new Trainee Spotlights every day for National Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week 2025, so be sure to check back daily! Our […]
You are cordially invited to the 2025 Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture Award Event on Thursday, April 3rd, at 4:00 pm in the Photonics Colloquium Room (8 St. Mary’s Street, 9thFloor, Room 906). The Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes researchers with extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship, senior leaders in industry, and inventors of transformative technologies. […]
Congratulations to CMTM Trainee Emma Stowe on winning the 3-Minute Thesis Competition at the ORS Tendon Section 2025 Annual Meeting! Emma is a Ph.D. student in the Connizzo Lab, and won for her her three minute thesis pitch comparing senescent cells to zombies wreaking havoc on tendon ECM remodeling, titled “The Impact of Cellular Senescence […]
Congratulations to CMTM PIs Masha Kamenetska, Bela Suki, and John Ngo for being awarded 2025 Faculty Seed Grants! Each PI has received $25,000 for their research projects. Dr. Kamenetska will be working with co-PI Joe Larkin on Assessing the effect of caffeine on the elastic properties of extracellular DNA and on biofilm mechanics. Dr. Suki […]
CMTM and the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) invite you to join us in building a diverse pipeline of the next generation of musculoskeletal researchers. CMTM will sponsor the attendance of up to two undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to ORS’s Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona on February 7 – 11, 2025. CMTM will cover the […]
Please save the date for our fifth annual CMTM symposium, themed “Translational Mechanobiology,” on Friday, November 15, 2024 on the BU campus! This year’s symposium will feature distinguished keynote speakers Dr. Tony Mikos, Louis Calder Professor in the Department of Engineering at Rice University, and Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Chancellor’s Professor in Bioengineering and Chemical & […]
We are pleased to announce the inaugural Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology trainee conference grants program, in collaboration with the Graduate Training Program in Biological Feedback Control. The CMTM conference grants are intended to provide current students and postdoctoral associates with funding to attend one professional conference in their research field during the 24-25 […]
The Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology at Boston University will hold its fifth annual symposium on Friday, November 15, 2024. The conference will feature keynote addresses, faculty speakers, a poster session, and 5-minute “lightening round” trainee presentations. We invite current undergraduate, M.S., and Ph.D. students and postdoctoral associates to submit abstracts for prospective contributed […]
We are pleased to announce another round of the Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology faculty seed grant program. The CMTM seed grants are intended to stimulate innovative research in mechanobiology. Proposals must be for collaborative projects involving two or more faculty within the Center. Collaborative proposals between multiple departments, colleges, and/or campuses are highly […]