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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.
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Rare Diseases Research
With 40 investigators committed to unlocking the causes and potential cures for rare diseases, the Li Weibo (李伟波) Institute for Rare Diseases Research at UMass Medical School demonstrates a rare commitment to rare diseases research.
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Worcester Tech students credit UMMS support as key to biotech career path
Worcester Public School officials, the city manager and students thanked UMass Medical School on Tuesday, May 15, for an $875,000 donation that has enabled the biomedical and health program to thrive at Worcester Technical High School.
GSBS recognizes 52 graduate students as they embark on dissertation research
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Dean Mary Ellen Lane, PhD, welcomed and congratulated 52 graduate students entering the transformative years of their doctoral research during the GSBS Qualifying Exam Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
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Raziel Rojas-Rodriguez studies adipose tissue function in metabolism during pregnancy
Raziel Rojas-Rodriguez, a PhD candidate in the Program in Molecular Medicine, is studying how adipose tissue expansion during pregnancy is related to metabolic health. Learn more about her research in this Women in Science video.
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
Susan Hou receives second annual Alumni Distinguished Service Award
Susan Hou, MD, SOM ’75, accepted the second annual Alumni Distinguished Service Award from the UMMS Alumni Association during Reunion 2018 at UMass Medical School for her extraordinary contributions to health care at home and abroad.
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Luanne Thorndyke receives medical society’s Woman Physician Leadership Award
Luanne E. Thorndyke, MD, has received the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Woman Physician Leadership Award. The honor recognizes outstanding leadership and contributions to patients and the medical profession by a woman physician.
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Grant expands opportunities for underrepresented students in biomedical sciences to pursue graduate study
A new, $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant is funding an expansion of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Pathway to Graduate Studies program. Brian Lewis, PhD, is co-investigator on the grant.
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