September 28, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Dear Reader, Boston University’s Graduate BioMedical Engineering (BME) department is ranked #8 by US News and World Report.1 In 2010-2011, BME’s 33 primary faculty members attracted $24.3 million in external research funding. Many BME faculty collaborate with clinicians and medical researchers at the BU School of Medicine. As an endorsement of this, BME was one […]
September 28, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Lung cancer is diagnosed in over 220,000 patients in the U.S. every year, and results in more cancer deaths than breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers combined. If detected at an early-stage, lung cancer can be treated using standard of care surgery. Most of these patients treated with surgery have reduced lung function and surgeons would […]
September 28, 2011 at 12:41 pm
The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation sponsors an annual program that provides gap funding to accelerate commercial development of medical technologies invented at the university. “The Coulter program intends to bring ideas together from different parts of the university,” says Art Rosenthal (Professor of Practice at BU). “We want to increase collaborations between biomedical engineers and […]
September 28, 2011 at 12:40 pm
BU’s Photonics Center was chosen by the National Science Foundation earlier this year to set up an industry-university cooperative research center called the Center for Biopohotonic Sensors and Systems (CBSS). CBSS is a partnership between BU’s Photonics Center and the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology at UC Davis. CBSS is tasked with developing portable, […]
August 11, 2011 at 10:59 am
Natick, MA August 10, 2011 Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies, Inc. (MOxST, www.moxst.com, pronounced “most”), a leading company in clean metal production for clean energy, has won a $6 million award to scale up their MagGen1000™ primary magnesium production process from the U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Program. MOxST CEO Steve Derezinski said, “This represents […]
Dear Reader, A year has passed and we are about to have our second annual Tech, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll conference on July 19. The event is all about making meaningful collisions between the Boston area startup and industrial ecosystem and the diverse faculty and graduate student research projects we have at BU. Last […]
Within the scientific community, innovation and progress go hand-in-hand. New ideas bring with them better technologies and force scientists and businesspeople alike to ask more questions and think outside the box. Tech, Drugs and Rock & Roll seeks to foster the growth and development of these fresh concepts by creating a entertaining platform from which […]
The key to staying well-connected is through effective networking—making that initial connection is important and but staying in touch with others helps keep one’s extant network dynamic and growing. As a networking event, Tech, Drugs and Rock & Roll’s main purpose is to facilitate the creation of new connections (or the improvement of old ones) between its participants. […]
This year, Lou Pride will put the “Rock & Roll” in Tech, Drugs and Rock & Roll—the blues singer will perform with Boston University’s own professor of music, Victor Coelho, and put some soul into the entrepreneurial spirit of the event. A Chicago native, Pride sang in the choir of his local church as a […]
March 31, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Dear Reader, Boston University (BU) provides about $4 billion in economic impact to Massachusetts annually, including supporting the payroll of about 44,000 jobs. A large portion of this is related to life sciences activities. BU has a medical school and jointly operates Boston Medical Center, which serves Boston’s low-income and minority population. BU is a […]
