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UMass Chan Medical School strives to catalyze our world-class basic research into scientific discoveries with high impact clinical applications and overcome the barriers in translating knowledge into clinical practice.

Established in 1970, UMass Chan has rapidly grown into a highly productive, highly collaborative research enterprise with outstanding scientific resources and facilities. UMass Chan receives more than $300 million per year in research funding. Our research community includes a Nobel laureate, a Lasker award recipient, seven National Academy members and four Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. Our research achievements have impacted the lives of children and adults in the U.S. and across the globe.

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  • UMass Chan Early Independence Fellows program aims to develop future top investigators

    UMass Chan Early Independence Fellows program aims to develop future top investigators

    Two new donor-funded fellowships are being launched this year at UMass Chan to recruit recent postdoctoral scientists and, through intensive mentoring and resource support, foster their development as independent investigators. The fellowships align with the vision embodied in The Morningside Foundation’s transformational $175 million gift in 2021.  

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  • UMass Chan scientist Shan Lu reports on effectiveness of DNA vaccine to prevent HIV

    UMass Chan scientist Shan Lu reports on effectiveness of DNA vaccine to prevent HIV

    Shan Lu MD, PhD, co-authored a pair of studies related to the Phase I clinical trial of a polyvalent DNA/prime-protein boost vaccine to prevent HIV, marking the latest step in a decades long quest to harness the power of DNA vaccines to address a major global health need.  

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  • UMass Chan lab develops app to keep international travelers healthy, inform researchers of infectious disease trends

    UMass Chan lab develops app to keep international travelers healthy, inform researchers of infectious disease trends

    Andrés Colubri, MFA, PhD, and his lab have partnered with a team at Massachusetts General Hospital on a mobile app that enables infectious disease research and can keep international travelers healthy.

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  • Science for Living: Sybil Crawford explains research on menopause hormone therapy and disease prevention

    Science for Living: Sybil Crawford explains research on menopause hormone therapy and disease prevention

    Recently published analyses from the Women’s Health Initiative found that hormone therapy reduces bothersome symptoms of menopause among women under 60 or in early menopause, but it does not prevent cardiovascular disease or other chronic diseases. Nursing professor Sybil Crawford discusses what research suggests about staying healthy throughout a woman’s middle and later years.  

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  • Worcester Integrated Health Data Exchange will use data, collaboration to tackle health disparities

    Worcester Integrated Health Data Exchange will use data, collaboration to tackle health disparities

    UMass Chan Medical School and Worcester’s health care organizations are embarking on a collaborative electronic health data-sharing initiative to understand health inequities, trends, risk factors and outcomes surrounding opioid use disorders.  

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  • Samara Vilca receives NIH D-SPAN award to further independent neuroscience research

    Samara Vilca receives NIH D-SPAN award to further independent neuroscience research

    Postdoctoral fellow Samara Vilca, PhD, has been awarded the second phase of the National Institutes of Health Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience Award.  

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