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Medicine

Biomedical Engineering Professor Edward Damiano in his lab with fellow researchers and their bionic pancreas

Funding

Science Coalition: Federal Funding Sparks Innovation

April 26, 2017

Illustration symbolizing noninvasive biomedical imaging of breast tumors

Biomedical Engineering

Wearable Windows into Breast Tumors

April 24, 2017

Litre Bottles of Soda

Neurology

Is Soda Bad for Your Brain? (And Is Diet Soda Worse?)

April 21, 2017

From left, Jeffrey Drazen, Benjamin Petrie, Jackson Steinkamp, Haares Mirzan, Sang Myung Han, Nicholas Chiu, Jason Park, Rahul Aggarwalm, and Isaac Kohane

Medicine

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge

April 10, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Cancer

BU Paves Way for MED Prof’s $10M Plus Partnership with Industry

April 3, 2017

Kevin Outterson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, world’s largest public-private partnership to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials.

Antibiotics

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics

March 31, 2017

Starting this fall, MED’s new Health Sciences Education program will offer both a master’s degree and certificate for health science educators.

University News

MED Launches New Health Sciences Education Program

March 30, 2017

President Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left.

Funding

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

March 21, 2017

Béla Suki, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering, and Jarred Mondoñedo, Boston University School of Medicine MD candidate and College of Engineering PhD candidate

Biomedical Engineering

Emphysema: A New Way to Predict Treatment Outcomes?

March 10, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Biology

Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose

February 28, 2017

adolescent with pills

Drugs

POV: More Help Needed for Youngest Victims of Opioid Epidemic

February 21, 2017

Patient Levi McBride with (from left) Yasmin Alayyoubi, Dolrudee Jumlongras, Athanasios Zavras, and Stephen Prieve

Nutrition

SDM Pediatric Dental Clinic Serves the Underserved

February 8, 2017

Edward Damiano holds a prototype of the iLet bionic pancreas he developed during an acceptance speech for the Boston University Innovator of the Year Award

Diabetes

Bionic Pancreas Passes Critical Science Hurdle

February 7, 2017

Ebola virus under a microscope

Ebola

Blood Test May Predict Who Lives or Dies with Ebola

January 23, 2017

Chemistry

New Targets to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

January 17, 2017

Professor Mark Grinstaff and Marlena Konieczynska in the Grinstaff Lab at Boston University

Medicine

A Better Way to Treat Burns from BU’s Grinstaff Lab

December 20, 2016

Up close Image of brown fat

Obesity

All Fat Is Not Created Equal

December 15, 2016

cell culture in petri dishes

Research

POV: Unregulated Stem Cell Clinics Pose Real Threat

December 5, 2016

Astha Singhal, assistant professor of health policy and health services research at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine

Medicine

BU Study Finds Racial Disparities in Opioid Prescriptions

October 12, 2016

Medicine

Saving (a) Face

October 6, 2016

Saving (a) Face