Department News

MD/PhD student and aspiring dermatologist Vincent Azzolino volunteers at Camp Discovery, a free summer camp funded by the American Academy of Dermatology, for children with chronic skin conditions. In the lab at UMass Chan, he studies enteroviruses and their drug resistance.

The special event included a tour and an unveiling of the donor acknowledgement plaque in the building’s main lobby.

Kristen Matteson, MD, MPH, and Mary Munson, PhD, are two of 100 ELAM fellows in the class of 2025-26.

The Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School honored student scientists for outstanding research and leadership qualities on May 29.

Mary Munson, PhD, received the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

UMass Chan Medical School scientists Jun Xie, PhD, and Guangping Gao, PhD, have received $500,000 to help advance gene therapy.

UMass Chan supports translational research from faculty with internal funding mechanism.

A new study reveals functions and mechanisms that are essential to how molecules move across a membrane through vesicles in a cell.  

PhD student Hoang Tran is in the first cohort to enroll in UMass Chan Medical School’s Biophysical, Chemical and Computational Biology pathway.  

Artists share what “Advancing Belonging Together” means to them through original artwork at a new exhibit coordinated by the Advocacy Subcommittee of UMass Chan’s Committee on Equal Opportunity and Diversity in partnership with the Lamar Soutter Library.  

A $5 million philanthropic gift from UMass Memorial Health and $2.5 million in matching funds from the University of Massachusetts Foundation will allow UMass Chan to establish five new ‘UMass Memorial Health’ endowed chairs. Furthermore, seven additional new endowed chairs are being established, meeting the institutional goal of 75 endowed chairs by 2025.  

Four faculty members were honored with chancellor’s medals, and seven others were invested as named professors at the annual Convocation and Investiture celebration.