Boston University proudly announces the start of the National Science Foundation National Research Traineeship Program (NRT) Understanding the Brain: Neurophotonics (NSF NRT UtB: Neurophotonics). This is a university-wide community of doctoral students in biology, neuroscience, biophysics, biomedical, and mechanical engineering with focused professional development and graduate training in neurophotonics. All current first year BU doctoral students […]
Mark Grinstaff and Marlena Konieczynska have developed a new hydrogen gel that acts as a barrier to infection for burns, keeps the wound moist, and—most important—can be washed off painlessly.
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 […]
We are pleased to announce that the joint winners (it was a TIE) of the BUnano Best Poster Prize at the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium are Steven Scherr, for his poster entitled, “Disposable Cartridge Platform for Rapid Multiplex Detection of Viruses at the Point-of-Care” and Julia Wang, for her poster entitled, “Stretch-Induced Drug Delivery from […]
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 […]