GSBS News

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences hosted its 3rd annual Celebration of Student Achievement on Friday, June 1, 2012. Students and graduates were recognized for outstanding achievement in a variety of academic and co curricular endeavors. 2012 Graduates were joined

Identical twin sisters, Asia and Ashley Matthew will enroll in the MD PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School after graduating from Xavier with a 4.0 average in both chemistry and pre med. Extraordinary talents Twin sisters achieve

2008 graduate, Hsien Sung Huang, Ph.D., has discovered topoisomerase inhibitors that can unsilence Ube3a in several regions of the central nervous system such as hippocampus, striatum, cerebral cortex, cerebellum and spinal cord. Ube3a is paternally imprinted and maternally active. Loss

Yendelela Cuffee MPH, is a fourth year student in the CPHR program with an interest in prevention and management of cardiovascular disease among African Americans. She was recently awarded a Health Services Dissertation grant from the Agency Healthcare Research and

Lisa Lines won a student travel award to attend the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics in Cleveland in October. At the conference, she presented a poster entitled "Quantile Regression Analysis of the Effect of Health Maintenance Organization Enrollment on

M.D. Ph.D. candidate Keith Romano received the Journal of Biological Chemistry Herbert Tabor Young Investigator Award at the 25th annual symposium of the Protein Society, which was held July 23 27 in Boston. Read full article on JBC website. 0none2011 07

Dr. Gellar has accepted a tenure track assistant professor position in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Tennessee. She will continue to conduct research which focuses on the behavioral and physiological factors associated with nutritional health status and how

The Hope Scholarship is awarded by the Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP) at Harvard. The Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP), founded in 1991, was incorporated as a not for profit organization in 1994. BSCP's first student conference took place in

MD PhD Student, Jen MacDonald, wins a Visions Community Award, presented by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette for her volunteer work at two free medical clinics.  Read full article here  http www.telegram.com apps pbcs.dll article?AID= 20110210 NEWS 102100900 1116 0none2011 02 10MD PhD

Shira Fischer's recent publication in the Journal of the Americal Medical Information Association, Impact of health information technology interventions to improve medication laboratory monitoring for ambulatory patients a systematic review, was featured this week in the What's New this Week (11 10 2010)

Melissa Matzelle, PhD student, will give an oral presentation at the American College of Rheumatology national meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in a Concurrent Session on RA pathogenesis. Melissa is studying pathogenic mechanisms of articular bone destruction in arthritis in Dr.

Melissa Matzelle, a Cell Biology graduate student in the lab of Ellen Gravallese, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and Chief of Rheumatology at UMass Memorial, was awarded the Abbott Bioresearch Fellowship in Translational Science. This award will support Melissa's

Dr. Nguyen has accepted an Associate Research Scientist position in the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. As part of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) research team, Dr. Nguyen will

Dr. Potts (2010 CPHR Graduate) has accepted a position as a Biostatistician at the Global Medical Affairs branch of Biogen Idec in Wellesley, MA. He will participate in multiple Phase IV studies, including involvement in study design discussions and running

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences hosted the first annual Celebration of Student Achievement on Friday, June 4, 2010. Students and graduates were recognized for outstanding achievement in a variety of academic and co curricular endeavors. 2010 Graduates were joined

Tanya Lord, MPH, is a fourth year student in the CPHR program with an interest in Patient Safety research. She was recently awarded a Health Services Dissertation grant from the Agency Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This grant will support

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is happy to assist its faculty and pre doctoral students from Central Massachusetts and beyond by coordinating year long, semester long and summer research internship opportunities. We have developed a listing of available research

The Hope Scholarship is awarded by the Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP) at Harvard. The Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP), founded in 1991, was incorporated as a not for profit organization in 1994. BSCP's first student conference took place in

Two UMMS GSBS students have been awarded the 2010 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. This award is widely regarded by faculty as the highest award that any graduate student in the biomedical

Dr. Bentley has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Yale Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. She will be involved in a number of research projects as part of a NIMH

The University of Massachusetts Medical School is currently upgrading the PeopleSoft Student Administration Application. The PeopleSoft Student Administration Application is an integrated student information system that houses the student admissions, financial and academic records for the institution. The upgraded PeopleSoft

JAMA News ReleaseCHICAGO Older adults newly admitted to nursing homes with high rates of antipsychotic prescribing in the previous year are more likely to receive antipsychotic agents, according to a report in the January 11 issue of Archives of Internal

Nang Maung is a fifth year PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. John Leong (MGM). Recently, Nang's abstract was selected for a Travel Grant to attend the 7th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases meeting in Tel Aviv,

Hantavirus research of Dr. Francis Ennis' lab was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal. Read Full Article   http online.wsj.com article SB10001424052748703819904574553810498042156.html     0none2009 11 24Of Mice and Men Why Hantavirus is so Deadly

Linzy Hendrickson received the Suzannah Bliss Tieman Award for the best poster by a graduate student at the 17th Northeast Under graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (N.E.U.R.O.N.) conference, held at Boston Latin School on Nov. 22, 2009. Linzy is a

Charusheila Ramkumar, a graduate student in the Department of Cell Biology, presented a poster titled " Smurf2 deficient mice exibit increased tumorigenesis " at AACR (American Association of Cancer Research) Conference on Frontiers in Basic Research. Charusheila was the first

Bharath Nath, an MD PhD student who recently completed his dissertation in the lab of Gyongyi Szabo MD PhD, presented a talk on his dissertation work at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 2009 Annual Meeting in

Dr. Ding will join in Dr. Clemens Scherzers Neurogenomics group at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School as a genetic epidemiologist focusing on analyzing and conducting genetic, gene expression, integrative genomic, and laboratory biomarker studies nested in Harvard NeuroDiscovery

James A. Potts, MPH, is a fourth year student in the CPHR program with an interest in infectious disease research. He was recently awarded a public health research dissertation grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to

Elena Salmoirago Blotcher, MD, is a cardiologist who joined CPHR as a full time student in 2007 to launch a research career after being a practicing clinician for many years. She recently was awarded a National Research Service Award for

Hongliu Ding, MD, MPH, PhD and Virginia Briggs, MS, PhD (pictured right at June Commencement) as well as Mayra Tisminetzky,MD, MPH, PhD, are the first group of graduates from the CPHR Program. Dr. Briggs conducted an observational study, “Injection Treatment

James Potts, CPHR third year student, received a runner up Young Investigator award and $250 for his poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). The 57th ASTMH was held in New