Find session slides, video recordings, and other materials from past events related to research on biological engineering.
Research on Tap: Challenges and Opportunities for an Aging Society: New Directions in Medicine, Health Care, and Social Policy (2018)
The aging of populations creates both challenges and opportunities for health care providers, policy makers, scientists, social service organizations, and older adults and their families. This event, hosted by Jonathan Woodson, Director, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy; Larz Anderson Professor in Management and Professor of the Practice, Questrom; and Professor, Surgery, MED, and […]
Research on Tap: Connecting Tissues and Investigators: Fibrosis in Health and Disease (2017)
Understanding and controlling fibrosis, whether as an integral part of the extracellular matrix or evoked during pathology, requires interdisciplinary approaches and expertise. This Research on Tap, hosted by Katya Ravid, Professor, Medicine and Biochemistry, School of Medicine; and Director, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office (IBRO), featured researchers who aim to develop a comprehensive interdisciplinary program that […]
Research on Tap: Understanding the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype (2017)
One of the biggest challenges in translational research is the development of methods to predict phenotype—an organism’s physical characteristics—from what we know about the genome and environment. Unpacking phenotypic complexity will require the convergence of research across biology, computer science, medicine, engineering, and others.* This Research on Tap, hosted by Richard Myers, Director, BU Genome […]
Research on Tap: Targets, Tools, and Drugs: Advances in Molecular Discovery at BU (2017)
Connecting different scientific disciplines, molecular discovery focuses on the design, optimization, and development of small molecules for use as pharmacological tools in the early stages of drug discovery. At this Research on Tap hosted by John A. Porco, Jr., Director, BU Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD), and Professor, Chemistry, CAS, faculty from various biomedical research […]
Research on Tap: Microbiome Systems Biology for Human and Environmental Health (2016)
Hosted by Daniel Segrè, Professor, Biology, CAS, Biomedical Engineering, ENG, and Bioinformatics; and W. Evan Johnson, Associate Professor, Medicine and Biostatistics, MED. Microbial communities play a crucial role in the health of plants, animals and humans, and of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding these communities can have great impact in many areas, including agriculture and […]
Research on Tap: Drug Repurposing and Reformulation: Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges (2016)
Hosted by Avi Spira, Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Bioinformatics; Chief, Division of Computational Biomedicine; and Director, Boston University Cancer Center. Developing new medicines is a costly, complex, and time-consuming process. Drug repurposing – the application of one compound or agent already used to treat a disease or condition to treat other […]
Research on Tap: Combatting Disease, Pursuing Cures: Infectious Diseases Research at BU (2015)
Hosted by Ronald Corley, Professor and Chair, Microbiology, and Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). This event featured BU infectious disease experts at the forefront of research of illnesses that are – or have the potential to become – major public health concerns and presented the cutting edge diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments these faculty […]