Congratulations to Professor Chris Chen on his election to the National Academy of Medicine! www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Calling all prospective grad, postdoc and faculty applicants for BU BME: Come meet us at #BMES2025 in San Diego! Learn about our exciting research, pick up some swag, and meet some of us! Booth #901.

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Shannon Stott as the new Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering! As a visionary leader at the nexus of engineering, biology, her work has advanced technologies that illuminate the intricacies of cancer and metastasis. tinyurl.com/5aau9nmp

Congratulations to @johntngo.bsky.social and students on their excellent work!

We are thrilled to host Dr. Stephanie Fraley @fraleylab.bsky.social from UCSD at BU this week! Join us Friday in PHO211 to hear about her exciting work in cell migration and cancer metastasis. #BME #Seminar #BUevents

Congratulations to Professor Joyce Wong and colleagues for their new NIH K12 grant to support women's health research here at BU! www.bu.edu/articles/202...

A huge thank you to @johnawhitephd.bsky.social who has concluded his time as BME Chair. He has been an incredible, supportive leader and we wish him the best in his next adventures. Luckily, we are in good hands! Professor Mary Dunlop will serve as Interim Chair until later this year. Stay tuned...

With an award from the Hartwell Foundation, BU's Samagya Banskota and colleagues are working on a novel method of developing treatments for “rare” genetic diseases that, taken together, affect millions of people. www.bu.edu/eng/2025/06/...

A BU team has begun to disentangle cognitive and motor processes, with implications in the near term for the research community and in the long term for people with neurological conditions. www.bu.edu/eng/2025/06/...

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Honored to be the 2025 recipient of the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award. Hope to see you in Houston for #SEED2025!

I’m thrilled that the *first* Pratt Lab paper is now out in BioTechniques! This work builds on our published MED-Amp assay, which improves ctDNA detection from low-input (<10 ng/mL) plasma by ~40% compared to targeted NGS and conventional ddPCR. (1/8) doi.org/10.1080/0736...