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  • Uncovering Pathways to Resistance in cancer

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  • Overcoming Therapeutic Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer

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  • Designed Biologics as Antivirals to avoid Drug Resistance

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  • Newest Drugs for the Oldest Parasites

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  • Thwarting Antibiotic Resistance in Psuedonomas Aerginosa

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  • Using Structural Biology to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

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  • Modifying Bacterial Behavior to Avoid Antibiotic Resistance

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  • How to Discover New Antibiotics by Getting Bacteria to “Talk” to Each Other

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  • How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Microbiome

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  • Bacteria Infection of Cancer Tumors – The Hidden Passengers we Ignored for too Long

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  • Preventing Antibiotic Resistance by Blocking Evolution

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  • Beth McCormick and Michael Stauff named department chairs

    Beth McCormick and Michael Stauff named department chairs

    Beth A. McCormick, PhD, has been named the new chair of the Department of Microbiology & Physiological Systems (MaPS), and Michael P. Stauff, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Orthopedics & Physical Rehabilitation.

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  • Convocation 2023: Chancellor Collins celebrates symphony of collaboration at UMass Chan

    Convocation 2023: Chancellor Collins celebrates symphony of collaboration at UMass Chan

    Four faculty members were honored with chancellor’s medals and four others were invested as endowed professors at the Convocation and Investiture ceremony at UMass Chan Medical School.

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  • Convocation events 2023

    UMass Chan celebrates start of new academic year with Convocation week

    The festivities begin on Friday, Sept. 8 with the annual White Coat Ceremony, welcoming the new T.H. Chan School of Medicine students into the medical community.

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  • PhD candidate to use NIH award to study cell death in cancer patients

    PhD candidate to use NIH award to study cell death in cancer patients

    Nicholas Harper, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, has received a prestigious award from the National Cancer Institute to study cell death as it relates to cancer therapies.

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  • Kirschstein award to fund PhD candidate’s research on HTLV-1

    Kirschstein award to fund PhD candidate’s research on HTLV-1

    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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  • UMass Chan BRIDGE Fund invests nearly $2M in 13 faculty projects

    UMass Chan BRIDGE Fund invests nearly $2M in 13 faculty projects

    The BRIDGE Fund supports critical research milestones for inventions and discoveries that have high potential to change the course of disease and continues to grow, increasing from approximately $1 million per year in 2019 to $3 million in 2024.

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  • Using the microbiome to protect against radiation exposure

    Using the microbiome to protect against radiation exposure

    Beth McCormick, PhD, and Vanni Bucci, PhD, are leading a $3 million effort to explore engineering the gut microbiome to counteract the effects of radiation exposure and total body irradiation.

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  • Jonathan Gerber named director of UMass Cancer Center; Michelle Kelliher interim chair of molecular, cell & cancer biology

    Jonathan Gerber named director of UMass Cancer Center; Michelle Kelliher interim chair of molecular, cell & cancer biology

    As the UMass Chan mourns the recent death of Michael Green, MD, PhD, two faculty have been appointed to fill positions that Dr. Green nobly held. Jonathan M. Gerber, MD, has been appointed director of the UMass Cancer Center, and Michelle A. Kelliher, PhD, will serve as interim chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell & Cancer Biology.

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  • MD/PhD student approaches Alzheimer’s disease through gut microbiome research

    MD/PhD student approaches Alzheimer’s disease through gut microbiome research

    After college, MD/PhD student Ethan Loew was torn between practicing bench science or becoming a clinician, but his postgraduate experience in a lab and a hospital showed him how he could combine the two.

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  • Nanobody treatment developed by MassBiologics shows promise for treating SARS-CoV-2 infection

    Nanobody treatment developed by MassBiologics shows promise for treating SARS-CoV-2 infection

    MassBiologics of UMass Chan Medical School develops novel nanobody as inhalable and affordable medicine against SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants.

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