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News
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A new BUSM study, led by Avrum Spira, MD, MS, shows exposure to smoky coal may cause some of the same molecular changes as smoking cigarettes.
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BUSM's Victoria Bolotina, PhD, and investigators say the discovery may lead to better understanding of the disease, early diagnosis and therapeutic development.
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The findings, according to Katya Ravid, DSc, PhD, may lead to new treatments for clotting associated with atherosclerosis, cancer, heart attacks and strokes.
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In the Media
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Football's Dangers, Illustrated by One Young Man's Brain
Ann McKee,
MD, neuropathology
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Doctors May Be Telling Too Many Women 'You're Having A Big Baby'
Ronald Iverson, MD, obstetrics & gynecology
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Vice News
Asperger Syndrome Seems More Prevalent Among Kids Who Identify as Opposite Gender
Joshua Safer, MD, medicine
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Announcements
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Due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some BUMC parking and commuter transportation services will be affected.
Read more.
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Calling all BUSM scientists, physicians and medical students! BUSM and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science wants you to participate in the 2016 Flame Challenge!
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BU Medical campus students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Department of Public Safety and their partners from the Boston University Police and the Boston Police departments at a town meeting.
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 3:30-5 p.m., Keefer Auditorium
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Official BU School of Medicine gear is available to students, faculty, staff, and friends in partnership with the Boston University Bookstore. You may order
online.
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The Office of Enrichment is seeking research experiences for medical students for summer 2016. The Medical Student Summer Research Program introduces first-year students to the principles of research and provides a mentorship experience with a BUMC faculty member.
Student applications are due March 21.
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Projects Sought for 2016 Lynne Stevens Award
The Department of Family Medicine at BUSM and BMC is seeking entries for the 2016 Lynne Stevens Award for a research and practice improvement project on healthcare responses to violence against women.
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Events
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Please visit the
calendar
for a full listing of grand rounds, lectures and events for this week.
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MLK & Kazi Nazrul Islam: The Spirit of Inclusion
Guest speaker: Winston E. Langley, provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and professor of political science and international relations at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Wednesday, Jan. 20, Noon-1 p.m., Hiebert Lounge
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