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RISC Town Halls

Dates & Times:

• Friday, Oct. 17, 10-11:30 a.m.
• Thursday, Oct. 23, 3-4:30 p.m.

Location: Instructional Building (L) 405

Register here

Faculty, staff and students are invited to a town hall being organized by the Research Infrastructure and Strategy Committee (RISC). RISC is working in partnership with a BMC working group to identify ways to make the research enterprise at the medical school and hospital as efficient and streamlined as possible. 

We need your input regarding ways to improve efficiencies, eliminate redundancies, and enhance research activities. It is important that everyone involved in the research enterprise participate, regardless of position title or rank. 

Please come to one of the two workshop sessions and provide your insight. Questions? Contact co-chairs Rachel Fearns or Donald Lloyd-Jones.

Boston University Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women’s Health Research

Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program support will also spur investment in early-career faculty.

Medical Student Research Program Looking for New Mentors

The Medical Student Research Program offers numerous opportunities for medical students to engage in mentored research projects. There are motivated students eager to contribute – whether for long-term research programs, including the 2-year LEADS-research track, the research year program and the Medical Student Summer Research Program, or for shorter-term M3 and M4 research electives.

If you have research projects that would benefit from enthusiastic medical student researchers, please tell us more about the opportunities by completing this form.

If you have questions, please contact Matthew Layne, PhD, assistant dean of research, or Joddy Nwankwo.

Notice of Internal Career Development Award Opportunity for BU Early Career Faculty Pursuing Women’s Health Research

The BIRCWH is an NIH-funded internal institutional mentored K grant award for individuals pursuing robust women’s health research training and science. 

The award provides funding for a maximum of three faculty scholar positions at a time. Scholars will be provided annual salary support of up to $100,000 (plus fringe benefits) in accordance with institutional policy. Each scholar will be provided ≤$50,000 annually for research and career development support costs.

For information, please contact any of the three MPIs: Elisha M. Wachman, MD (BU/BMC Pediatrics – BMC subcontract), Joyce Y. Wong, PhD (BU Engineering) and Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM (contact MPI, BU/BMC Medicine/Cardiology). 

Timeline

• Letter of Intent due: Sept. 29, submit here
• Application due: Nov. 10
• Notification date: Nov. 24
• Start date: December 2025

2025 Department of Medicine Evans Days

Date: Thursday and Friday, Oct. 16-17

Additional schedule information here

Wilkins Visiting Professor: Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD, Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine, Chief, division of nephrology, Washington University

Ingelfinger Professor: Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH, chief medical officer, University of Colorado Hospital, chief academic officer, UCHealth, distinguished professor of medicine, associate dean for clinical affairs, University of Colorado School of Medicine