UMass Medical School

09/28/20

Congratulations - 2020 Employee Service Awards

BMP Employee Service Awards

09/24/20

Schiffer lab members aid in fight against diabetes

Protecting beta cells against stress may guard against type 1 diabetes

09/21/20

Congratulations to BMP's Mask On Contest Winners

BMP's Mask On contest winners have been revealed!

09/17/20

Drs. Schiffer and Hou work with MassBiologics as they discover antibodies that may protect against COVID-19

Understanding the nature of the effect of the IgA antibody

09/14/20

Congratulations

Congratulations to the BMP Student who successfully defended his thesis and was awarded a PhD in September 2020!

09/11/20

UMMS researcher co-directs project to enhance diversity in biomedical sciences workforce

ASCB’s Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Program

09/08/20

Miller Lab awarded NIH R21 grant from National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Develop novel classes of compact fluorescent probes

09/03/20

BMP's MASK ON Photo Contest!

Vote for your favorite photo September 3^rd-14^th!

09/03/20

McCollum Lab awarded grant renewal by National Institute of General Medical Science

To study the role of the Hippo tumor supressor pathway in mitosis and regulation of cell fate in response to mechanical forces.

08/31/20

Small Molecule Screening Facility (SMSF) receives $1 Million Capital Grant

"...these new libraries, equipment, and resources further expand the capabilities of the SMSF and will facilitate drug discovery efforts in central Massachusetts."

08/27/20

Thoru Pederson, PhD, writes essay in remembrance of John Lewis

John Lewis, and others in due course, wrote a new songbook.

08/24/20

Rando Lab’s Vera Rinaldi, PhD, publishes paper in eLife

An atlas of cell types in the mouse epididymis and vas deferens

08/20/20

Congratulations

Congratulations to the BMP Student who successfully defended her thesis and was awarded a PhD in July 2020!

08/17/20

Bolon Lab awarded grant renewal by National Institute of General Medical Science

Mechanism of the Hsp90 chaperone

08/13/20

Dr. Brian Kelch has been awarded tenure in Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Department

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Kelch!

08/10/20

Celia Schiffer receives new NIH R21 award

Design of Protease Inhibitors to Target HTLV-1

08/06/20

Pederson Lab publishes paper in bioRxiv

Simultaneous Epigenetic Perturbation and Genome Imaging Reveal Distinct Roles of H3K9me3 in Chromatin Architecture and Transcription

08/03/20

Dr. Chen Xu promoted to full professor

Congratulations!

07/30/20

Celia Schiffer named 2020 ELAM Leadership for Women in Medicine fellow

“Participating in the program will help strengthen many of my leadership, communications and negotiations skills.”

07/27/20

Thompson Lab publishes paper in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Identification and Characterization of the Lactating Mouse Mammary Gland Citrullinome.

07/23/20

Ryder Lab receives UMass COVID19 Pandemic Fund pilot grant

Emerging variations and their impact on virus RNA secondary structure.

07/20/20

Schiffer Lab’s Gordon Lockbaum publishes manuscript

Optimizing the refinement of merohedrally twinned P61 HIV-1 protease–inhibitor cocrystal structures

07/16/20

Former Padilla Lab Member, Shellaina Gordon, discusses black underrepresentation in research

“There is a lack of physician-scientists working at this level and especially those of color"

07/13/20

Gang Han receives UMass Tech seed funding to explore safer class of MRI contrast agents

Gang Han, PhD, received seed funding from the UMass Technology Development Fund to explore a new, safer, biogenic class of MRI contrast agents as an alternative for commonly used gadolinium-based contrast agents.

07/09/20

Kobertz Lab collaborative publication with Universidad de Austral featured on JGP Cover

Spatiotemporal fluorescent imaging of proton release

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