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The BEACON team during a workshop in March. BEACON is an open-source infectious disease surveillance platform created by Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases in partnership with the Hariri Institute for Computing and Data Sciences at BU and HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital. COURTESY OF CASSANDRA KENNEDY

A new BEACON for global health set to launch in Boston

Samantha Genzer April 8, 2025

As diseases spread across borders with increasing speed, a team of scientists, engineers and public health experts is preparing to launch a first-of-its-kind, open-source global surveillance platform on...

Sophia Flissler / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Emerging Boston biotech industries have a responsibility to science — and to their neighbors

Editors November 4, 2021
Given the lack of stringent and uniform federal regulations, Boston's emergent biotech lab industry have the responsibility to ensure they are operating with the safety of their neighbors in mind.
Farah Delgado

Obituary: Boston University student Farah Delgado remembered for kindness, selflessness

Jesús Marrero Suárez August 14, 2021
Delgado, a student in Sargent, died on July 31 at 21 years old. She is remembered for her passion for public health, her deep love for her family, her unique laugh and her kindness.
medical students in a laboratory

BU medical community looks toward post-pandemic healthcare, research

Rachel Do April 28, 2021
As the number of vaccinated Americans climb, BU researchers reflect on how the country fought COVID-19.

Protesters oppose biolab as court proceedings continue

Daily Free Press Admin April 11, 2013

Several protesters stood outside the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse Thursday as proceedings continued in a case challenging the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University,...

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