Basic Research Team
The Basic Science Research Team consists of eminently qualified scientists involved in identifying and analyzing changes to the core structural constitution of clinical research participants at cellular and sub-cellular levels.
Senior Scientist
Wende Reenstra Buras M.D, PhD
Director of Basic Science Research
Division of Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
USA
Dr. Wende Reenstra Buras received training in medical sciences at the Boston University School of Medicine where she was awarded Master’s and doctoral degrees in Pathology and an MD degree. Wende is involved in formal teaching of medical students at Harvard Medical School through participation as a lecturer for the fourth year elective rotation in emergency medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and also as a preceptor for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course.
Dr. Buras is the Director of Basic Sciences Research as well as Director of
Faculty Development at BIDMC. She has acted as the PI and co-PI on several NIH
funded research projects and is a published author on the various effects of
hyperbaric medicine at the sub-cellular level. The major focus of Dr. Buras’s
research is in understanding the role of oxygen in regulating host responses
to the disease states of sepsis, ischemia/reperfusion injury (as in myocardial
injury/acute peripheral ischemia) and dysfunctional wound healing.