September 24, 2009
UMMS RESEARCHERS RECEIVE $6 MILLION TRANSFORMATIVE AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH TO PURSUE ORAL DELIVERY OF RNAi THERAPEUTICS
Investigators to test efficiency, extent and duration of gene silencing using siRNA in inflammation models involved in type-2 diabetes September 23, 2009
GOVERNOR PATRICK, MASSACHUSETTS LIFE SCIENCES CENTER ANNOUNCE APPROVAL OF $90 MILLION INVESTMENT IN THE ALBERT SHERMAN CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL
State of the Art, 500,000 Square Foot Research Facility to House Advanced Therapeutics Cluster
September 18, 2009
A TIME FOR BOLD ACTION
Chancellor Michael F. Collins addresses the UMass Worcester community at the 2009 Convocation ceremony
September 4, 2009
UMMS SCIENTISTS TEST GENE THERAPY TECHNIQUE FOR A POTENTIAL TREATMENT OF A TYPE OF INHERITED BLINDNESS
August 26, 2009
A TRIBUTE TO SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY
One of our nation's great leaders
August 10, 2009
NEW GENES AT WORK IN PATIENTS WITH HEREDITARY LUNG DISEASE
Gene therapy trial succeeds in spurring production of a protective protein
July 23, 2009
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL AND RXi PHARMACEUTICALS REVISE TECHNOLOGY LICENSING AGREEMENTS AS RXi REFOCUSES ITS IP PORTFOLIO
UMMS and RXi have mutually agreed to terminate six licensing agreements and an invention disclosure agreement and amend RXi oral delivery technology license terms
June 30, 2009
UMMS PROFESSOR AWARDED PARKER B. FRANCIS FELLOWSHIP
$156,000 grant to fund cystic fibrosis research
June 24, 2009
MASSACHUSETTS LIFE SCIENCES CENTER CONTINUES FUNDING FOR INTERNATIONAL STEM CELL REGISTRY
Investment will help the University of Massachusetts Medical School move forward with international stem cell database
June 16, 2009
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL NAMES LEADERSHIP OF RNA THERAPEUTICS INSTITUTE
Four-member team of RNA experts to lead new institute
June 7, 2009
UMMS AWARDED 204 DEGREES AT 36TH COMMENCEMENT ON JUNE 7
June 2, 2009
PHASE II EFFICACY OF HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TREATMENT TO PREVENT C. DIFFICILE RECURRENCE (ABSTRACT 751B)
April 28, 2009
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL #7 IN U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT ANNUAL RANKING OF PRIMARY CARE SCHOOLS
April 21, 2009
MERCK & CO., INC., MEDAREX, INC. AND MASSACHUSETTS BIOLOGIC LABORATORIES SIGN EXCLUSIVE LICENSING AGREEMENT FOR INVESTIGATIONAL MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY COMBINATION FOR CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION
March 26, 2009
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL ASSISTANT PROFESSORS NAMED EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS BY HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Sassetti, Freeman among 50 researchers to receive six-year, $1.5 million appointments
March 16, 2009
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BACKS INTER-CAMPUS RESEARCH TEAMS WITH LIFE SCIENCES MOMENT FUND
Grants support clinical and translational research collaborations across campuses
March 6, 2009
MARCUS NOYES, STUDENT IN THE UMASS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
Life sciences award given on the basis of quality, originality and significance of work
March 1, 2009
UMASS MEMORIAL CANCER CENTER RECEIVES AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY GRANT TO INITIATE CAREERS IN CANCER RESEARCH
February 26, 2009
UMMS RESEARCHERS ISOLATE GENE MUTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH INHERITED AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
Discovery points to a common cellular deficiency in motor neuron disorder
February 25, 2009
UMMS RESEARCHERS PUBLISH DNA IDENTIFICATION OF CZAR'S CHILDREN
Mitrochondrial and nuclear DNA study by UMMS and Russian researchers identifies final two Romanov children murdered in 1918
February 16, 2009
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL APPOINTS CHAIR OF QUANTITATIVE HEALTH SCIENCES
Noted scientist Catarina I. Kiefe, PhD, MD, recruited to build department, research
February 13, 2009
MASSACHUSETTS TO SCREEN BABIES AT BIRTH FOR IMMUNE DEFICIENCY
State Department of Public Health and UMass Medical School announce new program
February 12, 2009
ANONYMOUS DONOR GIVES $1 MILLION TO UMASS MEMORIAL NICU
Gift to support important redesign of Newborn Intensive Care Unit
January 5, 2009
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL RECOGNIZED FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Earns classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching