Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Lasky-Su, Sc.D., who has been elected as President of the Metabolomics Society, with a motivation to formalize the crucial role of metabolomic epidemiology within the society, and to work to bridge the gap between epidemiologists, biochemists and analytical chemists in the field.
Congratulations to Drs. Rachel Kelly, Kathleen Lee-Sarwar, Yang-Yu Liu, and Julie Paik who won the BWH, Department of Medicine 2019 Chair Research Award. From left to right: Dr. Kathleen Lee-Sarwar, MD, Dr. Yang-Yu Liu, PhD and Dr. Rachel Kelly, PhD.Joint Lab Will Pursue New Treatments for Chronic Lung Diseases
Here is the link to the Press Release- Bayer to invest in Longwood lab focused on chronic lung conditions
Diane Gold, MD, MPH, of the Channing Division of Network Medicine, was chosen by the ATS Assembly on Environmental, Occupational and Population Health (EOPH) Awards Selection Committee to receive the EOPH John Peters Award. The John M. Peters Award is for outstanding contributions to environmental or occupational health through leadership in research, education, or public health. Dr. Gold's work has included producing science that has contributed to evidence-based decision making and policies to improve respiratory health. Award criteria Associate or full professor (or equivalent, i.e., 8 or more years in the field) Outstanding contributions to environmental or occupational health as evidence by major leadership in research directly relevant to prevention; and/or major leadership in education or public health practice Relevance of the contribution to preventing and decreasing the morbidity and mortality of respiratory disorders caused by environmental or occupational exposures.
Jessica Lasky-Su of the Channing Division of Network Medicine was a recipient of a President's Scholar Award from Brigham and Women's Hospital. This highly competitive award recognizes Dr. Su's outstanding research accomplishments and potential for academic growth. Of the four inaugural recipients of this prestigious hospital-wide award, Dr. Su was the only recipient from the Department of Medicine.
Channing Division of Network Medicine Systems Pathobiology investigator Amitabh Sharma, PhD, co-authored an analysis of shared genes and symptoms on a multi-layered disease network: "The multiplex network of human diseases". The authors built and analyzed the multiplex network of 779 human diseases, consisting of a genotype-based layer and a phenotype-based layer, and "propose potentially new disease associations that arise as a unique feature of the information flow within and across the two layers." An editorial summary of the article stated that the author's "approach holds the potential to transcend today's clinical observation-based disease classification systems. It may pave the way for a molecular-based disease classification, the discovery of novel disease relationships, and ultimately personalized diagnosis and treatment."
The work is a follow-up to previous work on other disease networks: Human symptoms disease network (2014) and human disease network (2007) Nurses' Health Study 3 targets recruiting during National Nurses Week Nurses' Health Study 3 (NHS3), a joint Channing Division of Network Medicine (CDNM) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health cohort, used National Nurses Week recruitment to let U.S. and Canadian nurses know that recruitment is still underway for the third generation of the iconic Nurses' Health Study. With a new NHS3 website and stepped-up recruitment efforts, NHS3 aims to enroll at least an additional 55,000 participants to reach a target enrollment of 100,000 nurses. Read more about the study.
Cheng Peng, ScD, of the Channing Division of Network Medicine, received the Awesome Games Done Quick Award from the Prevent Cancer Foundation for her project, 'Dietary Prevention of Breast Cancer Among High-Risk Individuals." This award recognizes research and proposals that support cancer prevention. Read more about the award.
Channing Division of Network Medicine (CDNM) scientists were among the recipients of Brigham and Women's Hospital's Department of Medicine's 2018 Chair's Research Awards for first-time K and RO1-type awardees. CDNM awardees were Adel El Boueiz, MD; John Platig, PhD; Tianyi Huang, DSc; Jaime Hart, ScD; and Michael McGeachie, PhD. The awards objective is to bring candidates to the point where they are able to conduct their research independently and are competitive for major grant support.
The Channing Division of Network Medicine commemorated its 50th anniversary on September 20, 2018, with a ceremony in Bornstein Amphitheater. Brigham Health President Betsy Nabel, MD, applauded the division for its remarkable work and commitment to improving public health over the past five decades, saying, "I want to congratulate and thank all of you, the entire Channing team–including investigators, staff, and trainees–for your valuable contributions to the Brigham, to our knowledge of medicine, and all that you've done for our patients and families." Read more in the BWH Bulletin
Scott Weiss, MD, Harvard Medical School professor and CDNM associate director, was selected to deliver the 2018 J. Burns Amberson Lecture at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Conference. The lecture is given in honor of J. Burns Amberson, an international authority on chest disease and tuberculosis. Being chosen to give this lecture is one of the highest honors of ATS, and it reflects Dr. Weiss' many outstanding contributions to pulmonary research. Dr. Weiss' lecture was entitled "Network Methods to Prevent Asthma."
Eric Rimm, ScD, Harvard Medical School professor and CDNM epidemiologist, and others at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital have been awarded $4.9 million to create a microbiome biobank with more than 25,000 individuals from the Chan School-based Nurses' Health Study II and other long-running cohort studies. The award is part of $18 million in capital infrastructure grants given by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to research institutions in Boston. These awards were highlighted at a ceremony at Harvard Medical School on May 15, 2017. The researchers will catalog the microbial populations across multiple body sites from study participants, combining that data with individual lifestyle, health, and genetic information that has already been collected.
