We’re guilty. We don’t give Tufts its due as a medical school and research center. Harvard is the Alpha male of the Boston biomedical research, with its Partners network of big name academic research hospitals. Boston University and MIT – which doesn’t even have a hospital – tend to get into the news more than Tufts.
But, we do have a grad student blogger from Tufts and soon Tufts will have a geneticist at its helm.
The Boston Globe reports that Anthony P. Monaco, Oxford University’s pro-vice-chancellor and former director of it genetics research center, will become Tufts new president next year.
Anthony P. Monaco, a 51-year-old geneticist whose research on the genetic basis of neurological disorders led to major breakthroughs, will succeed Lawrence S. Bacow, who in February said he would step down after a decade-long tenure.
Monaco has been a professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford’s department of clinical medicine since 1997, and directed a genetics research center at Oxford, where he was the lead researcher on a team that identified the first gene to play a key role in human speech and language.
In 2007, he became the British university’s pro-vice-chancellor, leading a campaign to fund new research and open Oxford to a wider range of students.
For more on Tuft’s Medical School, click here Click here for more on the school’s research programs and affiliates.
For the Tufts Medical Center, click here. Unlike all those Harvard hospitals on Longwood Ave, Tufts is located in Boston’s Chinatown.
Tufts Medical Center is a world-class academic medical center located in Boston. Our Medical Center is the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. We offer outstanding patient care to both adults and children, teach generations of future physicians the most advanced medical science and break new ground with ongoing, innovative research.
Finally, here’s what our blogger, Sohini Mazumdar, had to say about Tufts v. the Cambridge heaveweights in an early post for her "The Metacognitive Graduate Student Chronicles."
em>As the name of the blog suggests, I am a graduate student based out of Boston. No, I don’t go to Harvard or MIT, I go to Tufts. And yes, Tufts is just as amazing! Thank you very much! Moving on now, my lab primarily works in transcriptional mechanisms and gene regulation with the focus on neuronal transcription factors…