Campus Highlights

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UMMS is one of five University of Massachusetts campuses and one of 13 institutions of higher learning in Greater Worcester. Encompassing the state’s School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Graduate School of Nursing, UMMS offers a unique advanced degree opportunity for residents — a master’s of public health through its affiliation with the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health.

The Medical School campus functions as an integrated health sciences facility, housing the school’s basic and clinical science departments and student laboratories.  The institution continues to provide a high quality education by offering the latest technology in medical simulation training at the UMMS Simulation Center.  The center houses advanced medical simulation computer programs and several patient simulator mannequins, which emulate conditions ranging from heart diseases to childbirth.  Through simulation training, residents and fellows may build skills and improve their ability to make effective decisions. 

The campus' Lamar Soutter Library is designated as the New England Regional Medical Library in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.  The library is a leading source of biomedical information for residents, students, faculty, staff, and the public.

Named for the Medical School’s founding dean, the library offers modern facilities for conducting online computerized literature searches, computer-assisted instruction networks, and audio-visual and microfilm materials. An extensive computer network provides e-mail and Internet access to all residents.

With the completion of the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building in 2001, UMMS strengthened its commitment to expanding its research enterprise. The nine-story structure contains 360,000 square feet of laboratories, core facilities and office space, and houses some 100 UMMS faculty members conducting both clinical and basic research in the areas of molecular genetics, immunology and tissue engineering, among others. 

The UMass Cancer Center, which bridges basic and clinical research and patient care, is contained within the building. Staffed by a growing cadre of nationally recognized cancer specialists, the Center unites National Institutes of Health and other funding with vital private philanthropy to implement investigator-initiated clinical trials. Major research projects are redefining prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers; hematologic malignancies; gastrointestinal cancers; and genitourinary cancers. 

The Irving S. and Betty Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute hosts faculty devoted to studying the biological causes, diagnoses and treatment of mental disorders. The Institute is situated near the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park, a leading national center for biotechnology research located adjacent to the UMMS campus. UMMS currently owns 83,000 square feet of the Biotech Park, which accommodates UMMS investigators, including scientists from the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, an internationally renowned scientific organization that merged with the Medical School in 1997. Through this affiliation, UMMS acquired the Foundation’s 80-acre, nine building campus in Shrewsbury, including the Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center, where the Medical School’s Continuing Education and Standardized Patient Program training labs are located. 

UMass Medical School’s research, education and public service missions are also strengthened by its Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL), which manufacture vaccines, and New England Newborn Screening Program (NENSP) in Jamaica Plain and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham.