• Rendering of the new VA facility to be built on the UMMS campus

    New VA outpatient clinic to be built on UMass Medical School campus in Worcester

    VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System and UMass Medical School will build a new, community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) for veterans, projected to open in 2021, on the campus of UMass Medical School in Worcester.

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  • Dean Terence R. Flotte and Chancellor Michael F. Collins hood AAMC President Darrell Kirch as he is awarded an honorary degree at UMass Medical School's 46th Commencement on June, 2, 2019.

    ‘Great joy’ as UMass Medical School recognizes medical, biomedical sciences and nursing graduates

    UMass Medical School awarded 214 degrees at its 46th Commencement exercises on Sunday, June 2, including honorary degrees to keynote speaker Darrell G. Kirch, MD; Susan Coghlin Mailman; and Richard P. Kennedy.

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  • Medical students at Match Day

    UMass Medical School first in New England for primary care

    The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best graduate schools names UMass Medical School first in all of New England for primary care education. UMMS ranks in the top 10 percent nationwide in primary care by the weekly news magazine in its 2020 edition of the Best Graduate Schools.

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  • An instructor demontrates how to administer nasal naloxone to a group of nursing and medical students.

    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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  • Craig Mello and Phillip Zamore

    FDA approves first drug to use RNA interference, based on discoveries made at UMass Medical School

    The new drug, patisiran, approved Aug. 10 by the FDA, is based on the discovery of RNAi made by Craig Mello, PhD, and Andrew Fire, PhD. It was developed by Alnylam, an RNAi-based drug development company co-founded by Phillip Zamore, PhD.

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First evidence of clinical stabilization in Tay-Sachs presented at European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy Congress

First evidence of clinical stabilization in Tay-Sachs presented at European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy Congress

Preliminary data from an expanded access study of an investigational gene therapy in two patients with infantile Tay-Sachs disease indicates the potential to modify the rate of disease progression, according to an upcoming report in Barcelona by Terence R. Flotte, MD.

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Research

Research

Jennifer Tjia weighs in on new study showing benefits of telephone support for dementia caregivers

Jennifer Tjia weighs in on new study showing benefits of telephone support for dementia caregivers

UMass Medical School geriatrics expert Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, interspersed personal reflection with scholarly analysis in an editorial on a study which found that telephone support for caretakers of family members with dementia can improve quality of life for both patients and caregivers.

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hnRNPA2B1: Fueling Antiviral Immunity from the Nucleus
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Gain-of-function mutations in the UNC-2/CaV2α channel lead to excitation-dominant synaptic transmission in Caenorhabditis elegans
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An order-to-disorder structural switch activates the FoxM1 transcription factor
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Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Neurological Diseases
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Education

Education

Kevin Enabulele follows older brother’s path to UMass Medical School

Kevin Enabulele follows older brother’s path to UMass Medical School

When Kevin Enabulele arrived at UMass Medical School this year with classmates in the School of Medicine Class of 2023, he knew he had one advantage as he began his studies: older brother Skelly Enabulele, now in his third year at UMMS.

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Community

Community

Community delivers as UMass Cancer Walk hits $750,000 goal

Community delivers as UMass Cancer Walk hits $750,000 goal

Thousands of people flocked to the UMass Cancer Walk and Run on Sunday, Sept. 22, helping organizers meet their $750,000 fundraising goal.

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Students

UMass Medical School students incorporating firearm safety into health care education

UMass Medical School students incorporating firearm safety into health care education

School of Medicine students are piloting a new optional enrichment elective on a public health approach to treating gun violence and have formed a chapter of the national organization SAFE (Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic).

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