NEIDL in the News
Full Professorships for Eight on Medical Campus
Original article from: BU Today posted on March 11, 2016. by Joel Brown Paul Duprex, originally from Northern Ireland, specializes in the genetics of viruses. Haiyan Gong (GRS’91), a native of China, has spent nearly three decades studying a single system in the eye and its relation to glaucoma, a leading cause... More
Report Indicates Link between Zika virus, Birth Defect
Original article from: Boston Herald posted on March 5, 2016. by Lindsay Kalter A breakthrough report published yesterday could provide an important link between the Zika virus and the birth defect microcephaly, and will likely serve as a springboard for local research efforts into the mystery illness, Hub scientists say. The paper, More
Super Science Tuesday with John Connor
February 29, 2016 John Connor is an associate professor of microbiology at Boston University. Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, The Science Coalition is asking people to answer the question: Why should science matter to the presidential candidates? For more videos and information, visit www.ScienceMatters2.me.
Teams Tackle Virus Puzzle
Original article from: Boston Herald posted on February 7, 2016. by Lindsay Kalter The Hub’s top infectious disease researchers are gearing up to take on the mysterious Zika virus, an illness with a potential link to devastating birth defects that’s raging across the Americas. Local scientists are launching two new initiatives —... More
Lessons From The Ebola Outbreak (Audio)
Original article from: WBUR: On Point posted on December 21, 2015. by Tom Ashbrook More than a year ago Ebola hit West Africa hard. As quarantine periods end, we’ll look at the lessons learned in the outbreak. The Ebola outbreak that roiled the world in 2014 appears to be finally wrapping up as the... More
Emergency Response Exercise to be conducted at Boston University Medical Command Center
For Immediate Release: December 10, 2015 Contact: Tom Testa (617) 353-7628, ttesta@bu.edu (Boston) – On Thursday December 10, 2015 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. Boston University (BU) and the City of Boston will conduct a joint functional emergency response simulation involving the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories... More
Ebola Returns: 2nd Case of Relapse Raises Questions
Original article from: LiveScience posted on October 20, 2015. by Ashley P. Taylor Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey — who became sick with Ebola about a year ago and recovered, but then became very ill again last week with what may be a relapse of the deadly virus — is now improving. "Pauline... More
Acting Classes Give Scientists Tools to Pitch their Work
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on October 20, 2015. by Tracy Jan The men and women stared intently into their partner’s eyes, slowly stretching their arms and bending to the side, in a silent and mysterious dance. They struggled to stifle giggles as they mirrored each other’s awkward movements. The improvisational... More
Alan Alda Center Teaches Scientists to Connect
Original article from: BU Today posted on September 15, 2015. by Barbara Moran Anyone who peeked into a ninth floor room at the Photonics Center last Friday would have seen a curious sight: 14 staid scientists, standing in pairs, silently mirroring each other’s movements, like well-dressed practitioners of rudimentary tai chi. More
One Doctor’s Campaign To Pay Those Who Risked Their Lives (Audio)
Original article from: NPR posted on September 6, 2015 As the Ebola crisis raged in West Africa last year, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia of Boston University traveled to Sierra Leone several times. Together with many other American doctors, she served alongside local health workers in the city of Kenema. This spring, back in... More
Caring for the Caregivers
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on September 2, 2015. by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Increasingly appalled. That’s how Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, felt as she made numerous trips to Sierra Leone to help Ebola patients over the past year. The suffering of the victims was terrible, More
After Ebola: NEIDL Infectious Diseases Expert Returns to Africa
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 27, 2015. by Susan Seligson Last August, Nahid Bhadelia traveled to Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic’s peak, hermetically clad in the protective spacesuit-like gear of a biosafety level 4 researcher. Funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Bhadelia went there to share her expertise... More
A Doctor’s Gift To The Brave Nurses Of Sierra Leone
Original article from: NPR posted on August 13, 2015. by Amy Maxmen It was a gift of about $600, to make up for wages that weren't paid. A gesture of gratitude, it may be the encouragement embattled nurses need to continue working with the specter of Ebola ever-present. In the darkest hours, More
Ebola Spurs Creation of Japan’s First Maximum-Security Biolab
Original article from: Nature posted on August 13, 2015. by Helen Shen Japan is set to join an elite and dangerous club with its decision to upgrade an existing infectious-disease lab to handle the most hazardous pathogens. The move sweeps away more than three decades of political opposition to operating a... More
Drug Might Fight Ebola-like Marburg Virus
Original article from: Health Day posted on July 22, 2015. by Randy Dotinga Researchers say they've made preliminary progress toward developing a drug that one day may treat people infected with the deadly Marburg virus, which is similar to Ebola. Monkeys didn't die from Marburg virus after they were infected and then... More
Boston Doctor Is Raising Money to Compensate Unpaid Ebola Workers
Original article from: Boston Magazine posted on June 30, 2015. by Jamie Ducharme When Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease doctor at Boston Medical Center, joined the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone last year, she kept hearing the same thing from local healthcare workers: The pay they had been promised had... More
Researchers Frustrated by Failure to Roll Out ‘Game-Changing’ Ebola Test
Original article from: Nature posted on June 26, 2015. by Declan Butler A test kit that diagnoses Ebola rapidly using just a finger prick of blood could save lives in the ongoing epidemic in West Africa. But researchers are perplexed as to why the diagnostic kit has not been deployed in... More
Bedside Ebola Test Accurate
Original article from: MedPage Today posted on June 25, 2015. by Michael Smith A bedside blood test for Ebola detected all of the cases that were positive on a standard assay and most of those that were negative, researchers reported. Importantly, the Corgenix ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test was faster than a widely... More
Could an Ebola Treatment Already Exist?
Original article from: BU Today posted on June 9, 2015. by Rich Barlow What if Zoloft and Vascor—safe prescription drugs that you can pick up at your CVS for depression and heart trouble, respectively—could treat Ebola? A government study led by a researcher at BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) suggests that this... More
BU Scientist Uses Existing Drugs in Fight Against Ebola
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on June 4, 2015. by Karen Weintraub Hoping to develop a drug against Ebola, but lacking the $1 billion to bring a new medicine to market, Boston University infectious disease researcher Gene Olinger turned to a more affordable source of drugs — those already available... More