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.

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

BU will support three BIRCWH scholars for NIH-funded Career Development Awards. The BIRCWH program supports early-career faculty in becoming independent investigators and leaders in women’s health research through intensive mentorship, funding and interdisciplinary training. The two-year appointment will be effective as of Dec. 1, 2025

Early-career faculty pursuing women’s health research are invited to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) by close of business on Monday, Oct. 6. To begin your LOI submission, please visit here.

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.

Boston Head and Neck Cancer Symposium

Date: Thursday, Oct. 9

Time: 8 a.m.-3:05 p.m.

Location: 1 Silber Way, Boston

Register here

The Boston Head and Neck Cancer Symposium brings clinicians and researchers together to discuss the latest developments in head and neck cancer therapy and research. The audience will include otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons, oncologists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, radiologists, pathologists and researchers working in the field of head and neck cancer. The meeting will include presentations by a number of internationally renowned speakers, including keynote presentations by Lillian Siu, MD, from the University of Toronto, and Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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