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Possible purchase of the Perini Building
Friday, December 13, 2019 Dear FHS participant, You may have heard or read news about the possible purchase of the Perini Building (part of which is the home of the Heart Study) by the City of Framingham. We want to reassure you that the location of the Framingham Heart Study will continue to... More
FOR INTERESTED RESEARCHERS: NHLBI announces plans to fund the Generation 3 and Omni 2 Cohorts of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Time to plan your grant proposals.
FOR INTERESTED RESEARCHERS: NHLBI announces plans to fund the Generation 3 and Omni 2 Cohorts of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Time to plan your grant proposals. FHS Guide for Researchers Edition: December 4, 2019 Dear Framingham Heart Study Research Community, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has announced plans to fund... More
FHS investigator, Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM received two prestigious awards from the American Heart Association (AHA)
FHS Researcher, Dr. Emelia J. Benjamin received two prestigious awards from the AHA this month: the 2019 Laennec Clinician/Educator Lecture, sponsored by the Council on Clinical Cardiology, which recognizes her contributions and achievements in the field of clinical cardiology and the 2019 Distinguished Achievement award from the Council on Genomic... More
AHA News: Obesity, Other Factors May Speed Up Brain Aging
(American Heart Association News) -- The brains of middle-age adults may be aging prematurely if they have obesity or other factors linked to cardiovascular disease, finds new FHS research, led by Dr. Rebecca Angoff, clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Read... More
FHS investigator Michelle Long, MD announced as Doris Duke 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Awardee
FHS investigator Michelle Long, MD announced as Doris Duke 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Awardee Michelle Long, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of medicine, has been awarded a three-year, $495,000 Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to early-career physician... More
Framingham’s Family Tradition: Generations Help Researchers Unlock Medical Mysteries [WGBH News]
The next phase of the Framingham Heart Study will focus on aging — why, and when, diseases of all kinds strike and what we can do to cut the risk. The answers may be within the study’s vast medical archives and the descendants of the volunteers. Read More.
FHS continues with a six-year $38 million contract from the NHLBI
We are excited to announce the Boston University School of Medicine has received a $38 million award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to continue the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) for another six years. This renewal will support examining our Offspring and Omni 1 Cohorts starting later this... More
FHS investigator Dr. Hugo J. Aparicio discusses opportunities for early career investigators with longitudinal cohort studies like FHS
"The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) is an excellent example of a database to initiate investigations and generate questions that could be followed later by experimental studies," explains Hugo J. Aparicio, MD, MPH, assistant professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, in a perspective article in the journal Stroke. Find... More
Cecilia Castro-Diehl, MD PhD; Laura Corlin, PhD; and Joowon Lee, PhD receive American Heart Association Scientific Session awards
Three Boston University Cardiovascular Epidemiology T32 post-doctoral trainees (Cecilia Castro-Diehl, Laura Corlin, and Joowon Lee) will receive awards at the upcoming American Heart Association EPI/Lifestyle Scientific Sessions meeting in March. Their research is based on Framingham Heart Study data. Congratulations to these investigators!! The primary goal of EPI/Lifestyle 2019 Scientific Sessions... More
The City of Framingham honors its oldest resident and the oldest FHS participant, Gina Galvani
The oldest participant of the Framingham Heart Study and the oldest resident of the city of Framingham, Gina Galvani, will turn 111 years old later this month. Read more about Mrs. Galvani and see how the City of Framingham honored her on December 4th. [ess_grid alias="gina-galvani"]