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Check out articles from the UMass Chan Office of Communications about the Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology Department!
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Summer Thyme, PhD, is the recipient of a five-year, NIH-funded research award to study intellectual disability in neurodevelopmental disorders using zebra fish as a model organism.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2024
BRIDGE Innovation and Business Development at UMass Chan Medical School has set aside nearly $2 million in funding for six faculty-led research projects that hold promise for translation to clinical application and commercialization.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
The year-end celebration highlighted the 22 students enrolled in Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program and the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development program who completed major milestones.
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Friday, May 24, 2024
The annual awards are sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Women’s Faculty Committee of the Diversity and Inclusion Office.
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Friday, May 17, 2024
The 12-month program is the longest-running professional development program at UMass Chan Medical School and has nearly 300 graduates.
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Friday, May 03, 2024
Celia Schiffer, PhD, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for her distinguished and continuing achievements in original biomedical research.
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
The two UMass Chan faculty members are among 500 scientists, engineers and innovators elected this year.
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Friday, November 03, 2023
Zhiping Weng, PhD, the Li Weibo Chair in Biomedical Research, at UMass Chan Medical School, has been named the inaugural chair of the newly formed Department of Genomics & Computational Biology.
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Wednesday, September 06, 2023
Faculty, staff and students gathered to share how they are advancing medicine, science and nursing together and launch UMass Chan’s new brand.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
PhD candidate Sarah Zvornicanin has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study HTLV-1, a retrovirus that can cause a type of cancer and a progressive nervous system condition.
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Forty future health and science professionals spent the summer immersed in UMass Chan’s cutting-edge laboratories.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2023
A $3.3 million grant will allow the Munson lab to study what happens in the specific point in time before vesicles are fused to the membrane in eukaryotic cells and discover how vesicle targeting and membrane fusion is achieved.