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Reaching Smokers Who are Not Motivated to Quit: A Mobile App to Enhance Well-being and Encourage Cessation
“Reaching Smokers Who are Not Motivated to Quit: A Mobile App to Enhance Well-being and Encourage Cessation” Presenter: Belinda Borrelli, PhD. Director and PI of the ME-ARC, Director of the Center for Behavioral Science Research, and Professor; Health Policy and Health Services Research, BUGSDM Tuesday, June 12th 2018 4:00PM-5:00PM Evans 118 72 East Concord Street Boston, Massachusetts... More
Dr. Shashi Bhuckory Named first PDC Fellow
Dr. Bhuckory joins the lab of Dr. Allison Dennis Dr. Bhuckory joins us from University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, France. His work is focus on bioconjugation, optical characterization, steady-state and time resolved spectroscopy, and time resolved FRET immunoassays. He will work with Dr. Dennis to translate her work on quantum dots for... More
Lateral Flow Test for PrEP Adherence
Proper management of an HIV infection requires that a patient be at least 80–95% adherent to a prescribed drug regimen to avoid poor health outcomes and the development of drug-resistant HIV strains. Clinicians generally monitor adherence habits indirectly through patient self-reporting, pill counting, and electronic drug monitoring. While direct measurement of patient... More
Review of Opportunities for Point of Care Technologies in Malaria Elimination
Malaria continues to be one of the most devastating diseases impacting global health. Although there have been significant reductions in global malaria incidence and mortality rates over the past 17 years, the disease remains endemic throughout the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization has put... More
Precision Diagnostics Center Brings Together Investigators Across BU
2017 marked the founding of the Precision Diagnostics Center at Boston University. Faculty from across the University have come together to build this new team science effort focused on emerging diagnostic technologies that can improve healthcare delivery by enabling precision treatment, screening and disease monitoring.