There’s a community of microscopic organisms, called a microbiome, that live on each northern leopard frog in Douglas Woodhams’s lab. The assistant professor of biology has earned a five-year $979,046 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study how peptides—very small proteins in the mucus that are secreted from the glands in the skin—regulate those microbiomes. “Amphibians have these antimicrobial…
Harvard-trained doctor David Sachar and Brigham and Women Hospital’s pathologist and senior lecturer Noel Rose have been recognized for their contributions to medicine with this year’s Golden Goose Award. Sachar was recognized for experiments with frog skin that led to the development of oral rehydration therapy, while Rose was honored for using a rabbit to prove that an autoimmune response…
The director of the University’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health will be recognized at the Rodale Institute’s Organic Pioneer Awards. Global Observatory on Pollution and Health Director Philip Landrigan, M.D., will be honored for his pioneering work in the health of children and the effects of toxic chemicals on their brains and nervous systems. Philip Landrigan, M.D. (Gary Wayne…
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has received a 2019 Innovations in Research and Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The school’s submission, “Integrating Career and Professional Development in the PhD Curriculum,” tied for third place in the competition developed to highlight innovations that support the next generation of researchers. “Graduate students often delay career planning until…
Lewina Lee, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and clinical research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston, has received a five-year, $3.5 million, R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Aging to establish the Boston Early Adversity and Mortality Study (BEAMS). Dr. Lee, along with co-principal investigator Daniel Mroczek, PhD, professor of…
Sanae ElShourbagy Ferreira, PhD, BUSM’18 has been awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) & Technology Policy Fellowship for 2019-20. Last year she was a “featured force” for science by the AAAS and this year Dr. Ferreira will be a part of 278 highly trained scientists and engineers who will spend their fellowship as part of federal…
Tina Liu, M.B.A. has been honored as a Gold Winner of the Women World Awards in the category of Female Executive of the Year for her contributions to developing a novel technology to make gene therapies safer and more effective. The Women World Awards are the world’s premier business awards for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and the organizations they run. Its annual…
Kellee Siegfried Earned Two NICHD Grants in the 2018-2019 Academic Year Within months after receiving a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to look at the connection between the ends of zebrafish chromosomes and infertility, Assistant Professor of Biology Kellee Siegfried received another NICHD grant to identify genes important for fertility by studying…
Pretty much all of your cells have the same DNA code. Yet they come in an astonishing number of forms. Some cells contract so that your heart can beat or your muscles flex. Others have jobs in your immune system, tuned to recognize different threats. And cells can change their behavior, altering their metabolism for example. And on and on.…
David A. Braun, MD, PhD, the John R. Svenson Fellow in Oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been recognized by HemOnc Today as a Next Gen Innovator. This honor is given to early-career hematologists and oncologists who have advanced their field through innovative approaches in clinical and research settings. HemOnc Today’s Next Gen Innovators include clinicians and researchers who specialize in solid…