Professors John Ngo and Arturo Vegas received this year’s annual Career Development Professorships. This award recognizes junior faculty who have been at BU less than two years and have been identified as emerging future leaders in their respective fields. Made possible by the support of donors, alumni, and BU’s Technology Development office, these professorships emphasize […]
Gifts endow three new Career Development Professorships, awarded to Questrom, CAS, and ENG junior faculty. Keith Brown, an ENG assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a CAS assistant professor of physics, is named BU’s first Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professor.
Boston University researchers have developed a new method that traps drugs or other molecules in tiny cages made of DNA, then releases them once they’ve reached their target – tumor cells, for instance – with a quick flash of light. “Basically it’s sort of a controlled drug release, and there wasn’t a very good approach [to […]
BUnano faculty member Katya Ravid, DSc, professor of medicine and biochemistry, recently was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to France. She is the first to receive this honor in biomedical research at BU. A Fulbright Scholar Award is one of the highest honors the federal government gives with regard to scholarship and international exchange. Recipients […]
In an effort to accelerate disease interception approaches to the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has entered into a $10.1 million research agreement with Janssen Research & Development, LLC, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies. Together with the Janssen Disease Interception Accelerator and Oncology […]
In recognition of his major contributions to engineering and to society at large, Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, BME, MSE) has been selected to receive this year’s Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture. The Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes faculty members with extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship, senior leaders in industry and extraordinary entrepreneurs who have invented […]
Mark W. Grinstaff of Boston University and Yolonda Colson of Brigham & Women’s Hospital, found that a two-step procedure—delivering a tumor-localizing, drug-absorbing nanoparticle followed by the actual therapeutic—can increase the amount of drug that reaches tumor cells and the amount of time the drug acts on the cells (Scientific Reports 2016, DOI:10.1038/srep18720). Cancer nanomedicine expert […]
MED’s Anurag Singh wins grant to study gene in deadly skin cancer. Singh, a MED assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine and XTNC mentor, is tackling this poorly understood melanoma by investigating how NRAS transforms healthy, normal skin cells into aggressive cancerous cells. The work is funded by a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Melanoma […]
Thirty-two hand-picked Boston University researchers convened for a day in September to participate in the Alan Alda Communicating Science Workshop held at BU and led by actors and journalists. The workshop was designed to teach scientists to be tuned-in and persuasive when they communicate their work to lawmakers, federal agencies, and the public…