Vitae fall/winter 2008, Vol. 31 No. 1 

With this issue of Vitae, we introduce a new format for highlighting research grants awarded to members of the UMass Medical School faculty. In 1978, when UMMS first published its magazine, faculty received grant funding totaling $2 million; by 2008, funding had grown to $193 million, an amount that places us among the top research institutions in the country.

The volume of grants awarded to UMMS faculty monthly has grown so much that Vitae is no longer the best venue for quickly disseminating this news; we’ll now be posting grants on the UMMS Web site at www.umassmed.edu/Vitae/grants as we receive them.

Our new format in the magazine will feature researchers describing their funded work in their own words, as well as their hopes about how their findings may impact the world. Click on the researcher's name below to read more about their work.

Job Dekker, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology
Structural Annotation of the Human Genome, National Human Genome Research Institute, one year, $582,000; recommended for two more years, $1.1 million

Sherry Lynn Pagoto, PhD, assistant professor of medicine
Treating Co-Morbid Obesity and Major Depressive Disorder, National Institute of Mental Health, one year, $500,030; recommended for four more years, $2.1 million

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