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UMass Chan Medical School strives to catalyze our world-class basic research into scientific discoveries with high impact clinical applications and overcome the barriers in translating knowledge into clinical practice.

Established in 1970, UMass Chan has rapidly grown into a highly productive, highly collaborative research enterprise with outstanding scientific resources and facilities. UMass Chan receives more than $300 million per year in research funding. Our research community includes a Nobel laureate, a Lasker award recipient, seven National Academy members and four Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. Our research achievements have impacted the lives of children and adults in the U.S. and across the globe.

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  • PhD candidate Kathleen Morrill receives Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
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    PhD candidate Kathleen Morrill receives Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award

    PhD candidate Kathleen Morrill received the 2023 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for her work on canine behavioral genomics and its relevance to human genetics and psychiatric disorders.

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  • Ryan Logan receives inaugural NIH HEAL Initiative Director’s Trailblazer Award
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    Ryan Logan receives inaugural NIH HEAL Initiative Director’s Trailblazer Award

    Ryan W. Logan, PhD, received the inaugural Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative, Director’s Trailblazer Award for his research into specific cell types in the brain involved in opioid use disorder, opioid dependence and withdrawal.

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  • UMass Chan presents ‘Celebration of Black Excellence’ for Black History Month
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    UMass Chan presents ‘Celebration of Black Excellence’ for Black History Month

    UMass Chan Medical School celebrated Black History Month with a focus on the research of four of its Black scientists: Brain Lewis, PhD; Ayorkor Gaba, PsyD; MD/PhD student Zach Dyer; and Natalie Anumba, PhD.

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  • UMass Chan investigators identify new pattern recognition system that monitors disease-causing bacteria in C. elegans
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    UMass Chan investigators identify new pattern recognition system that monitors disease-causing bacteria in C. elegans

    Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, identified a new mechanism to detect microbial infection that intercepts pathogen-derived signals of growth and virulence to assess the relative threat of virulent bacteria.

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  • Renowned geneticist is inaugural speaker for The Robert W. Finberg, MD, Memorial Lecture at UMass Chan
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    Renowned geneticist is inaugural speaker for The Robert W. Finberg, MD, Memorial Lecture at UMass Chan

    Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, a world-renowned geneticist and expert in the fields of innate immunity and immunology, is the inaugural speaker for The Robert W. Finberg, MD, Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 23.

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  • Musically minded PhD candidate targets movement disorders through fruit flies
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    Musically minded PhD candidate targets movement disorders through fruit flies

    PhD candidate Lucas Restrepo tackles movement disorders using fruit fly genetics and, in his spare time, plays the banjo.

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