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April 24, 2019
Riccio Fund for Neuroscience announces four research awards at UMMS
The Dan and Diane Riccio Fund for Neuroscience will support four $50,000 seed grants in 2019 to fuel innovative discoveries through interdisciplinary collaborations that deepen the understanding of brain function and the processes that go awry in neurological diseases.
Full story »April 22, 2019LISTEN: A conversation with Shlomit Schaal on improving eye health
In this Voices of UMassMed podcast, Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD, discusses the importance of eye health, and how technology can help identify disease in a noninvasive way.
Full story »April 22, 2019UMass ALS Cellucci Fund Boston Marathon team raises more than $70,000 for research
The 2019 UMass ALS Cellucci Fund Boston Marathon team raised more than $70,000 to support the breakthrough research underway at UMass Medical School toward a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Full story »April 19, 2019John Landers receives $300K from Muscular Dystrophy Association to identify therapeutic targets for ALS
John Landers, PhD, will use a $300,000 grant to identify new therapeutic targets for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The grant is one of eight totaling more than $2 million awarded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association for ALS research this month.
Full story »April 19, 2019UMass Medical School volunteers support Working for Worcester Build Day in North Quadrant
A team of UMass Medical School volunteers assisted with projects at Lakeview Elementary School and the Belmont Street School during the citywide community service event on April 13.
Full story »April 16, 2019Medical student helps bring interactive art exhibit about opioid crisis to UMass Medical School
Third-year medical student Hillary Mullan worked with the Lamar Soutter Library to bring an interactive art exhibit about the opioid crisis to UMass Medical School. The exhibit, “The Opioid Project,” is on display in the Lamar Soutter Library through May 7.
Full story »April 11, 2019Grant will help expand perinatal mental health and substance use disorder center created at UMMS
A center created by UMass Medical School to address mental health and substance use disorders among pregnant and postpartum women has received a grant from Perigee Fund to create a nationwide learning and research network to help moms across the country.
Full story »April 11, 2019M. Diane McKee named chair of Department of Family Medicine & Community Health
M. Diane McKee, MD, MS, will join UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center in June as the chair of the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health. Dr. McKee comes to UMMS from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
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April 09, 2019
Stop the Bleed initiative launched at UMMS, UMass Memorial campuses in Worcester
UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center are joining the Stop the Bleed initiative to raise awareness and provide training and emergency supplies on campus in the event of an incident or accident that causes massive bleeding.
Full story »April 08, 2019LISTEN: Running the Boston Marathon to fund ALS research at UMass Medical School
Members of the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund team running the 2019 Boston Marathon met with Jan Cellucci and shared what drives them to raise money for ALS research at UMass Medical School, in a new Voices of UMassMed podcast.
Full story »April 03, 2019Media on hand as UMass Medical School lights it up blue for autism
The Worcester Telegram and Gazette and TV3 Worcester News Tonight captured the excitement as UMass Medical School celebrated World Autism Awareness Day with its annual Light it Up Blue event on Tuesday, April 2.
Full story »April 03, 2019Novel strategy hits ‘reset button’ for disease-causing genetic duplications
Scot A. Wolfe, PhD, and Charles P. Emerson Jr., PhD, discovered a “reset button” for disease-causing genetic microduplications using CRISPR gene editing and a rare, innate DNA repair mechanism.
Full story »April 01, 2019School of Medicine students create peer mentoring program
A new mentoring program launched by School of Medicine students pairs third- and fourth-year students with their less experienced first- and second-year counterparts to help navigate the rigorous path to becoming a doctor.
Full story »March 28, 2019UMass Medical School, Dana Farber/Boston Children’s researchers optimize gene editing for sickle cell disease
Researchers at UMass Medical School and Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center have developed a strategy to treat two of the most common inherited blood diseases—sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia—applying CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to a patient's own blood stem cells.
Full story »March 26, 2019UMMS, regional partners launch All of Us Research Program in Central Massachusetts
The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the United States to uncover paths toward delivering precision medicine.
Full story »March 25, 2019Chancellor Collins, colleagues propose reforms to medical residency matching program
Reforms are needed to ensure the integrity of the medical residency program selection process, according to commentary in the journal Academic Medicine by Chancellor Michael F. Collins and colleagues at UMass Medical School.
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March 25, 2019
LISTEN: An interview with Ebola survivor Richard Sacra
In this Voices of UMassMed podcast, Ebola survivor Richard Sacra looks back on the 2014 crisis, his recovery from the disease and his mission in Liberia.
Full story »March 22, 2019UMass Medical School ranks in top 25 percent of medical schools in NIH funding
UMass Medical School ranked 34th out of 147 U.S. medical schools in National Institutes of Health funding and 14th among public medical schools, according to the 2018 report from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Full story »March 19, 2019Caterina Strambio De Castillia named Imaging Scientist by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has named Caterina Strambio De Castillia, PhD, a CZI Imaging Scientist and awarded more than $1 million in grant funding for her research into microscopic imaging.
Full story »March 19, 2019New study by Benjamin Nwosu examines cholesterol at puberty in type 1 diabetes
A new study by Benjamin Nwosu, MD, correlates the phenomenon known as partial clinical remission in children with type 1 diabetes with cholesterol levels when they reach puberty. Elevated cholesterol at puberty is an early indication that they are at higher risk for cardiovascular complications later in life.
Full story »March 19, 2019Resident, medical student receive Massachusetts Medical Society IT in Medicine Awards
Orthopedic surgery resident Michael DiBenedetto, MD, and medical student Hillary Mullan, SOM ’20, are winners of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s 18th annual Information Technology in Medicine Awards.
Full story »March 18, 2019Boston Globe details UMMS student Steven Em’s emotional Match Day
In an emotional, front-page Boston Globe column detailing School of Medicine student Steven Em’s journey to Match Day at UMass Medical School, writer Tom Farragher describes the horror his parents endured in the Killing Fields of Cambodia and the effect it has had on their son.
Full story »March 15, 2019Graduating students are ‘awed and grateful’ at UMass Medical School on Match Day
The School of Medicine Class of 2019 celebrated the residency matches of 125 students on Friday, March 15, with family, friends, students and faculty.
Full story »March 12, 2019UMass Medical School receives DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. Award
UMass Medical School received the DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for being an “exemplar of humanistic and respectful environments for graduate medical education.” UMass Memorial Health Care serves as the clinical partner of UMMS.
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March 12, 2019
UMass Medical School first in New England for primary care
The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best graduate schools names UMass Medical School tops in New England for primary care education among 152 medical schools and 33 schools of osteopathic medicine surveyed by the weekly news magazine in its 2020 edition of the Best Graduate Schools.
Full story »March 11, 2019LISTEN: Counting down to Match Day at UMass Medical School
In advance of Match Day, four graduating medical school students shared their stories in the new Voices of UMassMed podcast.
Full story »March 07, 2019Excitement builds for Match Day on March 15
Match Day at UMass Medical School is Friday, March 15, when fourth-year School of Medicine students gather with faculty, family and friends to open their National Resident Matching Program envelopes and learn where they will be serving their residencies. The ceremony starts at 11:30 a.m. in the Medical School lobby.
Full story »March 06, 2019Physician Scientist Research Retreat showcases MD/PhD program at UMMS
The 14th annual Physician Scientist Research Retreat on Friday, March 1, brought together prospective and current students, faculty and distinguished guest speakers showcasing the depth and breadth of the MD/PhD program at UMass Medical School.
Full story »March 05, 2019Medical students launch initiative to meet health care needs in underserved communities
A cohort of UMass Medical School students, including Rodney Bruno, SOM '22, and Ariana Perry, SOM '22, will be prepared for urban practice as inaugural members of the new Urban Health Scholars pathway.
Full story »March 04, 2019Two UMass Medical School research teams named STAT Madness 2019 contenders
UMass Medical School has two research teams competing in the 2019 STAT Madness contest, in which readers are encouraged to vote online for the best pioneering biomedical research of 2018.
Full story »March 04, 2019LISTEN: Justin Maykel discusses importance of early colorectal cancer screening
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and Justin Maykel, MD, has an important message for the public: Get your colonoscopy as early as possible.
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UMMS scientists develop technology to give night vision to mammals
A new study in the journal Cell describes how Gang Han, PhD, and colleagues developed technology to give night vision to mammals with a simple injection that contains nanoantennae, allowing the animals to see light beyond the visible spectrum, into the range of infrared light.
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