CMTM will be hosting it’s fourth annual yearly symposium on Friday, October 20th, 2023. This year’s symposium is titled “Cell-Matrix Conversations,” and will run all day on the first floor of the Kilachand Center at Boston University (610 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215). Keep a look out for updates on the agenda and guest speaker […]
UPDATE: This position has been filled, but please check back next semester for more student employment opportunities with CMTM! 1/27/23 Come join our Team! The Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology in the College of Engineering at Boston University seeks a part-time student employee to help with various administrative duties. The CMTM student employee will […]
Registration is now open for the The Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology’s 3rd Annual Symposium, Mechano-Adaptive Networks, on Friday, October 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the Boston University campus. The Keynote Addresses will be by Dr. Garegin Papoian from the University of Maryland and Dr. Cynthia Reinhart-King from Vanderbilt University. There […]
The Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology will hold its third annual symposium, “Mechano-Adaptive Networks,” Friday, October 7, 2022 on the Boston University campus. 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 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Bela Suki and Dr. Mark Grinstaff on being awarded 2022 BU Ignition Awards! Each year, BU Technology Development helps to fast-track promising new efforts by providing up to $75,000 to a few select projects. “There are loads of great ideas on campus, but they often need some help to get to a […]
Join us for our first session of the CMTM Guest Speaker Series featuring Dr. Andrew McCulloch, the Shu Chien Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Engineering and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine at the University of California San Diego, co-sponsored by BU’s CELL-MET. Dr. McCulloch will discuss his experiences running graduate training […]
Congratulations to CMTM Faculty Dr. Francesca Seta on being promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine/Vascular Biology at BUSM! Dr. Seta focuses on the biology of vascular smooth muscle and its contribution to maladaptive vascular remodeling associated with arterial stiffness and aortic aneurysms/dissections, two vascular conditions with no current therapies. She has identified novel vascular smooth […]
BU President Robert Brown has announced the appointment of College of Engineering Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, Chemistry, MSE, MED), along with Gary Lawson of the School of Law and Dana Robert of the School of Theology, as William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors—the highest recognition the University bestows on faculty. The funds that come with the […]
Congratulations to our winners of the CMTM Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week raffle, Gabrielle Grifno and Tim Josephson! Gabrielle graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Philosophy in 2020, and is now pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. At Johns Hopkins she worked to optimize stem […]
Our final trainee spotlight for Graduate & Professional Appreciation Week 2022 is Soyoung Lee, who works in the Movement & Applied Imaging Lab under PI Deepak Kumar in the Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences. The Movement & Applied Imaging Lab is a trans-disciplinary collaboration with the objective of preventing and managing musculoskeletal disorders, primarily […]