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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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