September is World Alzheimer’s Disease Month. The BU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, established in 1996, recently has been awarded a $10 million, five-year grant by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. One of 33 federally funded Alzheimer’s centers nationwide, the renewal will allow the team to continue its important work toward improving diagnosis, treatment and prevention of AD.
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The National Institutes of Health has funded Biology of the Lung from the beginning and has just renewed it for five more years, taking it through years 46 to 50 of training predoctoral and postdoctoral scientists, both PhDs and MDs, in lung biology and pulmonary disease. The $4.1 million renewal will fund stipends and other expenses for a dozen trainees a year until 2026.
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Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology Michael Wallace, PhD, has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Peter Paul Career Development Professorship. The Professorship is presented to promising junior faculty who have been at BU for less than two years and who have held no prior professorships.
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For his project, “Deciphering Mechanisms of Disease Resistance and Longevity in Centenarians,” George Murphy, PhD, associate professor of medicine, was awarded the 2021 Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award by the National Academy of Medicine. Congratulations!
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In the Media
Rene Crichlow, MD
Davidson Hamer, MD
Elissa Perkins, MD, MPH, director, emergency medicine infectious disease management, BMC; emergency medicine, BMC/BUSM
Marc LaRochelle, MD, MPH
Ludy Shih, MD, MMSc
Nahid Bhadelia, MD
Mara Murray Horwitz, MD
Benjamin Linas, MD
Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH
Solomon Carter Fuller, MD, BUSM 1897
Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD
David Felson, MD
Sabrina Assoumou, MD, MPH
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1:15-2 p.m.
BU faculty and trainees are invited. RSVP required.
PROGRAM
1:15-1:20 p.m. Opening remarks by Drs. Katya Ravid and David Coleman
1:20-1:40 p.m. Precision Medicine for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders ARC
- Dr. Rhoda Au, Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
- Dr. Lindsay Farrer, Professor, Section Chief, Biomedical Genetics
1:40-2 p.m. A Multi-Disciplinary Program to Identify Predictors of Efficacy and Resistance to Cancer Checkpoint Inhibition (PIPER-C) ARC
- Dr. Matthew Kulke, Professor, Hematology & Medical Oncology
- Dr. Evan Johnson, Associate Professor, Computational Biomedicine
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Boston University School of Medicine
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