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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.

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.

A total of $160,500 in grants has been awarded for this year’s innovative projects led by UMass Chan Medical School faculty, staff and students.

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.

A new study involving more than 9,000 Framingham Heart Study participants shows standard electrocardiograms can predict biological age and risk of cardiac disease and death.

David Guertin studies brown fat and its correlation with protection resistance to metabolic diseases such as obesity, insulin resistance and fatty liver disease.

Roberto Caricchio, MD, is leading the new UMass Chan Lupus Center at UMass Chan in partnership with UMass Memorial Health.

John E. Harris, MD, PhD, and Manuel Garber, PhD, will lead a $3.75 million NIH clinical study at UMass Chan Medical School to identify potential preclinical genetic, molecular and biological signatures that may predispose patients to developing vitiligo.

More than half of the U.S. population will be infected with cytomegalovirus by the age of 40. Laura Gibson, MD’94, writes about CMV in an article written for The Conversation.

Twenty-five junior faculty members at UMass Chan Medical School completed the Junior Faculty Development Program on May 18.