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Curiosity in action 🔬 Our researchers ask the big questions and test new ideas as we explore the mysteries of the human brain. by @bumedicine

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🫁 Joshua D. Campbell, associate professor of medicine at @bumedicine, has received a five-year, $3.4M grant from the NIH's National Cancer Institute. His multi-institution team will pair robotic-assisted biopsies with AI image analysis and spatial transcriptomics to predict which "ground glass nodules" on CT scans are likely to become invasive cancer.

"Ultimately, this breakthrough will transform how early-stage lung cancer is managed," says Campbell.

Read more at the 🔗 in our bio. by @bumedicine

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How can scientific discoveries become treatments that improve patients’ lives? 🧬

@bostonu’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has received a $41 million NIH grant to support its work turning research into new medical treatments and tools over the next seven years.

The CTSI, a partnership between BU and @bostonmedicalcenter Health System, will expand its leadership to include the VA Boston Healthcare System. The new funding will support research, training and mentorship, community engagement and collaborations across fields including lung disease, AI, bioinformatics and data science.

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Geeta Swamy, a renowned obstetrics and gynecology researcher and an academic leader at Duke University School of Medicine, has been appointed the new dean of Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (@BUMedicine).

Swamy brings more than two decades of experience in healthcare, groundbreaking research, and university leadership. At Duke, where she has worked for 22 years, Swamy is the Haywood Brown, MD Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health, associate vice president for research, and executive vice dean for clinical sciences and research administration for the school of medicine.

Swamy’s arrival marks the end of a competitive search for a successor for the next medical school dean after Karen Antman, who stepped down in 2024 after 19 years in the role. Hee-Young Park, the Carolann S. Najarian, MD, chair of medical sciences and education, a professor of dermatology, and associate dean of faculty affairs at the medical school, has served as interim dean since 2025. Swamy assumes the position on January 1, 2027.

At the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Swamy will play a key role in strengthening the 30-year partnership between the University and Boston Medical Center Health System (@bostonmedicalcenter). BMC is the primary teaching hospital for the medical school and also partners with the School of Public Health, School of Dental Medicine, and the medical school’s master’s in medical science program.

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🏆 A tiny implant that reduces knee pain after surgery.

That is the goal of @bostonu biomedical engineer Carolyn Marar (ENG’23,’25), one of six 2026 BU Ignition Award winners whose research is making the leap from the lab to real-world impact.

Her injectable device, about the size of a piece of pencil lead, uses microwave energy to target specific nerves and dial down pain after knee replacement surgery. She has already founded a company, Nervara, to bring it to clinics. Marar is currently working with Venetia Zachariou and Daniel Taub, @bumedicine experts, to begin the next phase of testing.

Other 2026 winners are working on treatments for chronic kidney disease and pancreatic cancer, synthetic tooth enamel, near-silent underwater robot propulsion, and deformable mirror systems technology. Each team receives up to $75,000 in funding and expert mentorship through BU Technology Development.

Read about all six winners at the 🔗 in our bio. by @bumedicine

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What if the blood vessels in our lungs play a bigger role in scarring than scientists realized?

Researchers at @bumedicine, through a collaborative study from the laboratories of Xaralabos (Bob) Varelas, and Giovanni Ligresti, identified lung blood vessel cells that become active after injury and help drive fibrosis.

The team also found that blocking an overactive signaling pathway could prevent lung scarring and reduce inflammation in preclinical models.

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(BOSTON) – Researchers at Boston University have completed the largest study to date characterizing the cognitive symptoms of NFL players with confirmed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) who underwent neuropsychological tests while they were alive. CTE is the neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated head impacts that cannot yet be diagnosed accurately during life in part because its specific symptoms need to be determined.

"This is the largest study of its kind to directly link the amount of CTE pathology found at autopsy with objective cognitive testing during life," said Anna Aaronson, lead author and a PhD student at the Boston University CTE Center. "These findings provide an important roadmap for recognizing CTE in living patients." by @bumedicine

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🧠🏈 A new study from @bostonu, @massgeneralbrigham, and the Concussion & CTE Foundation is raising new questions about the prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) among former NFL players.

Researchers analyzed 1,712 former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, including 338 who donated their brains. CTE was found in 93.2% of the donated brains, leading researchers to estimate that at least 24.5% of all players studied may have had the disease, with a worst-case estimate as high as 97.7%.

Jesse Mez, @bu_cte Center codirector of clinical research, called the findings a “call to action” for more research, discussion of risk, and support for affected families.

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From our alumni to the next generation of healers 🩺 We celebrated Medical Equipment Day alongside our 9th Annual Lorraine Stanfield, MD, Memorial Doctoring Lecture. Thank you to our alums for your generous donations, and we're so proud of our newest class with their first stethoscopes! #MedicalEquipmentDay by @bumedicine

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A new grant from the National Institutes of Health will support a collaboration between Boston University’s Engineering and Medical schools led by Joseph P. Mizgerd (Sc.D.) and Hadi Nia (BME, MSE), uncovering how the lung’s microscopic structure shapes its response to inhaled particles. Collaborators include Katrina Traber (MD) and Béla Suki (BME).

Read the full story at the link in our bio.

#BUEngineering #EngineeredForImpact #SocietalEngineer #BiomedicalEngineering by @bumedicine

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How common is CTE in former NFL players? 🧠🏈

New BU CTE Center study: 91.4% of 235 deceased NFL players who donated brains had CTE. Researchers estimate at least 1 in 4 former NFL players who died between 2016–2021 had CTE.
⚠️ The 91.4% reflects brain donors studied.

Learn more in the latest data from the BU CTE Center here: https://bit.ly/4gwd0K3

#CTE #BrainHealth #NFL #Football #SportsMedicine #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #BUCTECenter by @bumedicine

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What if better AI doesn’t mean bigger AI? 🤖🧬

@bostonu researchers developed a biology-informed AI model that focuses on the parts of antibodies responsible for recognizing disease targets. The approach improved predictions of antibody binding strength by as much as 27% while using fewer computational resources.

Led by Diane Joseph-McCarthy, the research brought together experts including John Misasi of the BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.

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