BMB Blog

Dr. Paul Thompson of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology department at UMass Chan Medical School recently published a newly discovered inhibitor of STING signaling that could be a promising new treatment option for various diseases including lupus, SAVI, and ALS.

Wondering how current PhD students and postdocs can prepare to make an impact in the rapidly-changing biotech industry? Check out this article that features interviews with industry experts!

For the Global Day of Recognition of ALS/MND, in which we honor ALS patients and their caretakers around the world, we wanted to feature the work of our own Dr. Zuoshang Xu. Dr. Xu is one of many researchers around the world working tirelessly to develop the first cure for this deadly disease.

Please join us in offering our most sincere congratulations to the BMB Class of 2023! Commencement is happening on June 4th at 10:30am ET. We are so proud of this year’s graduates, and we will miss them greatly! We at the BMB wish you all the luck and happiness in the world as you continue on in your careers and lives.

Join us in congratulating the Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology faculty whose accomplishments were honored at the 2023 Women's Faculty Committee Awards at UMass Chan Medical School.

Celebrate Mother's Day with us by learning about how the nutrients and other molecules in the oocyte help kick-start embryonic development!

The Educational Recognition Awards are an annual tradition at UMass Chan that celebrates “the dedication, passion and creativity of faculty.” Recipients are nominated and chosen by their fellow faculty, and students also help determine the awardees each year. We are honored to have three of the awardees this year be from the BMB department. To celebrate their achievements, we conducted brief interviews of each of our 2023 awardees.

Celebrate Donor Conception Awareness Day with the Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology department by learning about how an overlooked part of the male reproductive tract controls sperm development through RNA.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Join us to learn about the biochemistry of snake venoms, and how they might be used to treat a variety of human diseases!

For Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month, we are featuring the work of Dr. Paul Thompson in our department. The goal of his research is to develop drugs to inhibit a family of proteins called PAD's that play a major role in the pathology of many different autoimmune diseases.