Making a Difference FY20 - Stories of support for UMass Chan Medical School

Two important early-stage studies are underway at UMass Chan Medical School because of major awards totaling nearly $1 million from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation.

In early 2020, COVID-19 changed life as we know it. UMMS responded rapidly by mobilizing its groundbreaking research platform. Donors acted just as quickly.

Family establishes the Paul A. Vernaglia Jr., MD’78, Memorial Scholarship, transforming an annual, term scholarship into an endowment that will grow in perpetuity.

Twenty-six fundraising events organized by members of our local communities supported various programs at UMass Chan Medical School.

In June 2020, the Dan and Diane Riccio Fund for Neuroscience announced four $50,000 seed grants to UMass Chan Medical School researchers.

In keeping with a distinguished tradition of generosity—and in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, which canceled reunion celebrations in 2020—School of Medicine Classes give back.

Virtual 35th Annual Meeting of the Hudson Hoagland Society highlighted research with extraordinary relevance and currency, including an approach to a vaccine for COVID-19.

Support from UMMS alumni and School of Medicine parents increases for the third consecutive year.

A generous gift from Scott and Patricia Glass established the Glass Family Fellow in Diabetes Research at the UMass Diabetes Center of Excellence.

Jake and Sparky Kennedy, long known for their generosity as founders of the annual Boston Christmas in the City celebration, launched a new drive in 2019 to support ALS research at UMass Chan Medical School.

In December 2019, Sally C. Kent, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the Diabetes Center of Excellence, was named the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes.

Supporters of the 11th Annual Winter Ball collectively raised more than $1.3 million to help support the clinical care, education and biomedical research missions of UMMS and UMass Memorial Medical Center. This was the fourth consecutive year that fundraising exceeded $1 million.

Under the warm sun of the last official day of summer 2019, thousands converged on the campus shared by UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial for the 21st annual event.

Making a Difference: The impact of donor support

Mathers Foundation strengthens support of biomedical research

Swift, generous support drives COVID-19 and related virus research

A name, and promise, live on

Community fundraising events raise more than $322,000

Dan and Diane Riccio Fund for Neuroscience awards four new grants

Reunion Class Gift Campaign 2020

HHS awards annual grants to five UMMS researchers

Giving Days 2020 reaches new heights

Glass Family Fellow in Diabetes Research established

Jake Kennedy ALS Fund to support research at UMass Chan Medical School

New Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes named

More than $1 million raised for the Winter Ball for the fourth consecutive year

Community delivers as 2019 UMass Cancer Walk hits $750,000 goal