2008-07-08: NewScientist.com reports on a handheld nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanner built by CSB scientists that can diagnose diseases and identify pathogens. Journal reference: Nature Medicine (DOI: 10.1038/nm.1711)
2008-06-10: The Journal of Experimental Medicine interviews CSB Associate Member Vamsi Mootha, MD, PhD. (pdf)
2008-05-21: Dennis Brown, PhD will be a permanent member of the NIH Cell and Molecular Biology of the Kidney (CMBK) study section beginning in the Fall of 2008. He was also recently appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Physiological Reviews, beginning January 2009
2008-05-20: Winnie Shum, PhD in the Breton lab was awarded an MGH Fund for Medical Discovery Fellowship for her work on cell signaling in the male reproductive tract.
2008-05-20: Kevin Miranda, PhD in the Brown lab was awarded a 2 year National Kidney Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for his work on the vacuolar proton pumping ATPase in the kidney.
2008-05-20: Jodie Babitt, PhD in the Lin lab was awarded a Claflin Distinguished Fellowship from MGH, which supports women who have family commitments that might otherwise impact their research - for her work on iron regulation by BMP
family members.
2008-04-28: Herbert Lin, MD is elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, one of the oldest and most esteemed organizations of physician-scientists.
2008-03-25: The Council for Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2), the Cell Decision Process Center, and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School are pleased to announce the opening of registration for "Systems Biology of Human Disease", an international conference scheduled for June 12-13 2008 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School.
2008-03-03: Herbert Lin, MD has been chosen as the winner of the Stephen Krane Award of MGH Department of Medicine. This award both honors a distinguished leader in the Arthritis Unit and
Department of Medicine and also recognizes young leaders in the Department who are carrying on the traditions of investigative excellence that Steve Krane so spectacularly embodies
2008-02-28: The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports that the CSB paper, "Use of gene expression profiling to direct in vivo molecular imaging of lung cancer" is one of the 30 most-read papers online during the month of January 2008.