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2018 White Coat Ceremony
The 162 members of the School of Medicine Class of 2022 at UMass Medical School donned their white coats for the first time in a heartfelt ceremony on Friday, Sept. 14, under a tent on the campus green, as the first-year medical students accepted the mantel of the medical profession.
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2018 Convocation & Investiture Ceremony
Chancellor Michael F. Collins delivered his annual Convocation address and presented the 2018 Chancellor’s Medals for excellence in teaching, scholarship, service and clinical excellence.The Investiture ceremony, following Convocation, invested four distinguished faculty members as named professors and honored the donors who endowed them.
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2018 Commencement Ceremony
UMass Medical School bestowed 193 degrees, including three honorary degrees, at its 45th Commencement exercises. Chancellor Michael F. Collins presided over the ceremony, calling on graduates to keep focusing on people.
UMMS scientists receive $1.6M in NIH funding to improve genome editing techniques
Led by Guangping Gao, PhD, and Erik Sontheimer, PhD, scientists at UMass Medical School will work to develop technology to enable safe genome editing in patients, thanks to new grant funding from the National Institutes of Health.
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Postdoc Tessa Simone explores role of immune cells in cancer
Tessa Simone, PhD, a postdoc in the lab of Michael R. Green, MD, PhD, is focused on identifying ways to teach the immune system to attack cancerous tumors without harming healthy tissue.
Read moreTherapeutic genome editing by combined viral and non-viral delivery of CRISPR system components in vivo
Epigenetic characteristics of the mitotic chromosome in 1D and 3D
Bacterial Metabolism Affects the C. elegans Response to Cancer Chemotherapeutics
Microsatellite Expansion Diseases: Repeat Toxicity Found in Translation
Education
UMass Medical School recognized with national award for opioid safe-prescribing curriculum
UMass Medical School has been selected as one of four recipients of the Association of American Medical Colleges Curricular Innovation Award for its Opioid Safe-prescribing Training Immersion program.
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LISTEN: UMass Medical School partnership with Worcester schools benefits students
In a new Voices of UMassMed podcast interview, Kola Akindele, JD, and Maura Mahoney, LISCW, discuss the impact UMass Medical School continues to have on the lives of students in the Worcester Public Schools.
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First-year medical student gaining research experience in organ preservation
Medical student Jessica Perry is working in the lab of Paulo Martins, MD, PhD, this summer, with the support of a Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
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