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…