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Top Medicine Researchers at Boston University for 2026
Boston University’s recent output in Medicine shows a broad and active research community, with work spanning clinical care, aging, brain health, cardiovascular disease, and musculoskeletal health. Across the last year, researchers at the university have contributed to studies that connect patient care with large-scale data, imaging, genetics, and emerging analytical methods.
Below, you’ll find a snapshot of featured scholars whose recent publications reflect that range. Together, their work points to a department-level conversation that is both clinically grounded and methodologically diverse, with recurring attention to population health and disease mechanisms.
Featured Researchers
Thanh N. Nguyen
Thanh N. Nguyen’s recent Boston University work centers on epidemiology and stroke care, especially intra-arterial thrombolysis after endovascular reperfusion.
Activity over the last year: 69 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Intra-Arterial Tenecteplase Following Endovascular Reperfusion for Large Vessel Occlusion Acute Ischemic Stroke (Jan 2025)
- Intra-Arterial Urokinase After Endovascular Reperfusion for Acute Ischemic Stroke (Jan 2025)
- Intra-Arterial Tenecteplase After Successful Reperfusion in Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke (Jul 2025)
Jesse Mez
Jesse Mez has focused on psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, and physiology, with recent publications on Alzheimer’s disease prediction, cognition, and genetic risk.
Activity over the last year: 64 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- CARE-AD: a multi-agent large language model framework for Alzheimer’s disease prediction using longitudinal clinical notes (Aug 2025)
- White Matter Abnormalities and Cognition in Aging and Alzheimer Disease (Jun 2025)
- Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 56,241 individuals identifies known and novel cross-population and ancestry-specific associations as novel risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease (Jul 2025)
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au’s recent Boston University publications emphasize brain health assessment, Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, and remote monitoring with smart devices.
Activity over the last year: 55 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Michael L. Alosco
Michael L. Alosco’s work spans epidemiology, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology, with recent attention to traumatic brain injury and plasma biomarkers.
Activity over the last year: 47 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- A new characterisation of acute traumatic brain injury: the NIH-NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Initiative (May 2025)
- Retrospective Identification and Characterization of Traumatic Brain Injury—Recommendations from the 2024 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Traumatic Brain Injury Classification and Nomenclature Initiative Retrospective Classification Working Group (May 2025)
- Sex differences on tau, astrocytic, and neurodegenerative plasma biomarkers (Mar 2025)
Tuhina Neogi
Tuhina Neogi’s recent publications examine osteoarthritis from clinical and biological angles, including systemic disease and single-cell atlas approaches.
Activity over the last year: 47 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
M. Maria Glymour
M. Maria Glymour’s recent Boston University work draws on psychiatry and mental health, health, and statistics to study evidence triangulation, mortality, and cognitive function.
Activity over the last year: 40 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Evidence triangulation in health research (Mar 2025)
- Sociodemographic, health-related, and clinical characteristics and their associations with mortality among All of Us participants compared with the United States general population (Jun 2025)
- 20-Year income volatility and cognitive function in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) cohort: A replication and extension of CARDIA findings (Feb 2025)
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin’s recent research links cardiology and genetics, including obesity management in heart failure, atrial fibrillation risk, and smoking-related cardiovascular harm.
Activity over the last year: 48 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- 2025 ACC Scientific Statement on the Management of Obesity in Adults With Heart Failure (Jun 2025)
- Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk (Mar 2025)
- Association Between Cigarette Smoking and Subclinical Markers of Cardiovascular Harm (Mar 2025)
Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri’s recent publications connect psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and genetics through work on vascular cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Activity over the last year: 38 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia—The VasCog-2-WSO Criteria (Sep 2025)
- Ultra-processed food consumption and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: The Framingham Heart Study (Jan 2025)
- Rapamycin treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: a pilot phase 1 clinical trial (May 2025)
What Boston University's Medicine Community Is Working On
The most common subfields point to a community deeply engaged with psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, physiology, neurology, and genetics. That mix suggests a strong emphasis on understanding disease across scales: from population patterns and risk factors to biological mechanisms and clinical outcomes. In practice, the recent work at Boston University reflects active efforts in brain health and dementia, stroke and traumatic brain injury, cardiovascular risk, and osteoarthritis, often using data-rich methods that bring together clinical records, biomarkers, imaging, and genomics.- Psychiatry and Mental health - seen across 5 of the featured researchers
- Epidemiology - seen across 4 of the featured researchers
- Physiology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Neurology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Genetics - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
These researchers illustrate the range of medical inquiry underway at Boston University, from neurological and cardiovascular questions to rheumatology, epidemiology, and data-driven approaches to diagnosis and risk. If you’re exploring similar work, it can be helpful to track how themes, methods, and collaborations evolve over time. Tools like Resub can also help streamline citation discovery and manuscript preparation as you move from reading to writing.
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