Boston University

Cancer

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Medicine

Researcher Receives Entrepreneur Award from American Thoracic Society

June 26, 2017

Illustration about innovative breast tumor imaging research

Cancer

Breast Cancer Research

June 16, 2017

Quantum dots glow different colors under UV light depending on their size. Dennis and her colleagues are developing dots that will respond to deep red and near-infrared light—same idea, not as pretty.

Nanotechnology

What Are Quantum Dots?

June 5, 2017

Students from BU and other schools reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Women's Sports

Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for Charity

May 24, 2017

illustration symbolizing the effect of dioxins and other toxic chemical chemical carcinogens in the environment that cause breast cancer

Research

Dioxins Point to Targets for Treating Breast Cancer

April 24, 2017

Black Woman Health Disparities illustration

Research

Too Many Black Women Die from Breast Cancer. Why?

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing breast cancer research using zebrafish

Genetics

Zebrafish Cancer Genetics Illuminate Human Breast Cancers

April 24, 2017

Illustration of hands holding the body of a woman symbolizing the help of patient navigators for underserved women with breast cancer

Healthcare

Patient Navigators Improve Delivery of Care for Breast Cancer Patients

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing noninvasive biomedical imaging of breast tumors

Engineering & Computing

Wearable Windows into Breast Tumors

April 24, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Cancer

BU Paves Way for MED Prof’s $10M Plus Partnership with Industry

April 3, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Biology

Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose

February 28, 2017

model of active human apoptosome

Medicine

A New Look at the “Wheel of Death”

November 10, 2016

Medical illustration of cancer cell and tumor

Cancer

Tumor Testing

August 29, 2016

glass of drinking water in front of a map of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Epidemiology

Toxic Legacy

August 26, 2016

Professor David Sherr, director of a new BU/Tufts consortium researching environmental causes of breast cancer

Cancer

New Consortium to Study Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer

June 27, 2016

Mark Grinstaff, Boston University School of Medicine, lectures in class

Cancer

Cancer Treatment Goes Local

May 6, 2016

Richard C. Shipley

Cancer

Trustee Gives $10 Million to Redirect Fight against Prostate Cancer

April 21, 2016

ultrasound technology

Cancer

Black Women with Fibroids Face Elevated Risk of Endometrial Cancer

March 24, 2016

Neil Ganem Boston University

Cancer

Every Cell Has a Story

December 22, 2015

Anurag Singh, a MED assistant professor, studies NRAS in melanoma with a three-year grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance

Cancer

Unraveling Melanoma’s Mysteries

November 2, 2015

Unraveling Melanoma’s Mysteries