click to open search panel
Additional Resources
  • 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 for veterans, projected to open in 2021, on the campus of UMass Medical School in Worcester.

    Read more
  • 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.

    Read more
  • 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.

    Read more
  • 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

    Read more
  • 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.

    Read more
Glass Family Fellow in Diabetes Research established at UMMS

Glass Family Fellow in Diabetes Research established at UMMS

The UMass Diabetes Center of Excellence has established the Glass Family Fellow in Diabetes Research, through a gift from Scott and Patricia Glass. It was presented to Richard A. Siller, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of René Maehr, PhD.

Read more
Research

Research

Research from Jeanne Lawrence lab reveals new insights into neurodevelopment in Down syndrome

Research from Jeanne Lawrence lab reveals new insights into neurodevelopment in Down syndrome

According to new research from the lab of Jeanne Lawrence, PhD, differentiated human cells retain the ability to undergo chromosome silencing in response to XIST, a naturally occurring “off switch” for the female X-chromosome.

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

Education

BaccMD Pathway Program illuminates path to medical school

BaccMD Pathway Program illuminates path to medical school

Third-year School of Medicine student Monica Tawadros came to UMass Medical School by way of the Baccalaureate MD Pathway Program. She is one of 10 students currently enrolled through the program. Learn more about the pathway in this video.

Read more
Community

Community

MLK Semester of Service awardees will address local health and education needs

MLK Semester of Service awardees will address local health and education needs

Four teams of UMass Medical School students that have been awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Awards will help improve access to cervical cancer screening, train youth in a lifesaving emergency intervention, integrate medical health records into free medical care and expand tutoring opportunities for high school students.

Read more
Students

Students

Student life suite opens at UMass Medical School

Student life suite opens at UMass Medical School

The new student life suite opened at UMass Medical School with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Monday, Jan. 27 showcasing the central location for the offices of Student Life, Student Affairs, the Registrar and Financial Aid.

Read more

UMassMedTV

  • BaccMD Pathway Program illuminates path to medical school

    tawadros-bacc-md-660.png

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

    Enabulele bros, Hatem.660.png

  • Match Day 2019: Anthony Tran "Grateful"

    Tran video.png

Stay Connected