Welcome
to our new catalog presentation. We hope that you will enjoy using
it as much as we did creating it.
At Boston University Medical Center, clinical and basic scientists
and their graduate students are creating the foundation for 21st-century
medicine. From molecular biology to clinical trials, from computer
models to pharmaceutical products, the research teams at the School
of Medicine, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, the School of
Public Health, and the Goldman School of Dental Medicine are continually
harnessing the technology of the future.
Boston University School of Medicine ranks between the 85th and 90th
percentile nationally in research grants and contracts per faculty;
the School ranks in the 90th percentile for ratio of basic science
graduate students per basic science faculty. These superb indicators
of strength in research resulted from a decision 20 years ago to expand
vigorously a network of centers and institutes at our Center. The
Boston University Medical Center Campus is home to a Clinical Research
Center, a Pulmonary Center, an Arthritis Center, a Cardiovascular
Institute, a Cancer Center, a Center of Human Genetics, a Gerontology
Center, a Center for Research in Women's Health, as well as the Mallory
Institute of Pathology, the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, the Maxwell
Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, and the Sloan Epidemiology
Unit.
To accommodate the growth in these areas and in research emanating
from the basic science departments, significant additions to the School's
physical plant have been made. A 35,000 square foot Dermatology Research
Facility opened in 1991 at 609 Albany Street, and the Center for Advanced
Biomedical Research, with 180,000 square feet of research space, was
opened in 1994. In 1995, the state-of-the-art McNary Learning Center
was built. It contains lecture halls, seminar rooms, and a highly
sophisticated computerized teaching lab. A second research building
adjacent to the Center for Advanced Biomedical Research was completed
in the Fall of 1999. The building also is home to several biotechnology
companies-another indication of our medical school's commitment to
research.
All of the additions to research and teaching space will be fortified
with an impressive modernization program of our existing research
facilities. In 1995 the Housman Research Building was completely renovated.
Renovations of the Evans Research Facility has already been started.
The School of Public Health moved into new facilities last year. These
changes will help to perpetuate an environment conducive to integrated
inquiry among basic scientists and clinical investigators. Indeed,
the prevalence of joint appointments between basic science and clinical
departments attests to the high level of cooperation between clinical
and basic scientists and clinicians in the conceptualization, discovery,
and development of unusual research programs.
Our
graduate programs at the Medical Center are evolving as a major force
at the University and the medical school campus. There are approximately
500 students pursuing graduate degrees. Since 1993 the Schools of
Medicine and Dentistry have been granted the right to confer graduate
degrees from their respective Schools. At present they offer nine
MA programs and eleven PhD programs. We would be delighted to answer
any questions that may arise in your pursuit of a graduate program.
Please feel free to contact my office for further assistance.
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Carl
Franzblau, PhD
Associate Dean
Division of Graduate Medical Sciences |
