The trainee spotlight for Tuesday, April 5th is on Yuhei Uda, a fifth-year graduate student working in the Divieti Pajevic Lab in the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dentistry. His lab investigates the effects of hormones, intracellular signaling and mechanical forces on osteocytes both “in vivo”, using genetically modified animal models, and “in […]
Our trainee Spotlight for Monday, April 4th is Emma Stowe. Emma is a graduate student working in The Connizzo Laboratory with PI Brianne Connizzo, studying mechanobiology & aging of soft tissues in the Department of Biomedical Engineering here at Boston University. Emma is also one of our Trainee Leaders for 2022, helping organize and promote […]
The 2022 Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPAW) at BU will be held April 4-8, 2022. Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week was started in 1993 by the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) to demonstrate appreciation for graduate and professional students nationwide. The Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology is kicking the week […]
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Layne on winning the 2022 Educator of the Year award from the Boston University School of Medicine! Dr. Layne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at BUSM, as well as the Assistant Dean for Research at BUSM and a member of the BU-BMC Cancer Center, Evans Center for […]
CMTM Faculty To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award Dr. LaDora V. Thompson has been named the 2022 recipient of the Denham Harman Award. The Denham Harman Award, from the American Aging Association, is the highest honor in recognition of lifetime achievement in the field of research on aging. Created in 1978, the award was named in […]
Article from BME Faculty Spotlight, NEWS By Patrick L. Kennedy, posted February 17, 2022. Prestigious honor for top biomedical engineers For the second year in a row, three ENG faculty members have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). This time, the honorees are Professor […]
Acorn Innovation Fund Aids in Commercializing Scientific Breakthroughs Across the Commonwealth Source: MassVentures Jan. 19, 2022 The Commonwealth’s strategic venture capital team, MassVentures, announces today the award of $195,000 in seed funding to Massachusetts research institutions to help them bring new technologies closer to market. Twelve grants of $16,250 each were awarded to faculty researchers […]
Louis C. Gerstenfeld, PhD, professor of orthopaedic surgery, has been selected as the as the 2022 recipient of the inaugural Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) International Section of Fracture Repair (ISFR) Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors highly accomplished individuals who have throughout their career demonstrated and promoted the highest values of the ORS ISFR (collaboration, […]
Happy Belated Thanksgiving to all of our CMTM family. Ease back into your work week after the long holiday weekend by reading our Fall Newsletter!
You’re invited to The Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology’s 2nd Annual Symposium, Feedback Control in Mechanobiology, on Friday, November 5th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Keynote Speakers include Dr. David Mooney of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, and Dr. Daniel J. Tschumperlin of the Tissue Repair and Mechanobiology Laboratory at the Mayo […]