UMass Chan Medical School

The Office of Student Life led its first combined orientation for new medical, biomedical sciences and nursing students on Wednesday, Aug. 17, responding to requests by students for increased interaction among schools.

UMass Chan Medical School and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, part of the Beth Israel Lahey Health system, announced that they have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to establish a regional campus of the commonwealth’s only public medical school at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington to help train, develop and support the next generation of health care leaders.

Jeremy Luban, MD, is a physician-scientist who studies the interaction between human cells and deadly pathogens including HIV-1, Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2. He shares his insights on what we might expect next from COVID-19 and what researchers might focus on going forward.