Program in Molecular Medicine

373 Plantation Street · Worcester, MA 01605

The Program in Molecular Medicine is an academic department of the University of Massachusetts Medical School that brings together diverse and powerful approaches to promote innovative biomedical research and teaching. To achieve this goal, the Program has attracted outstanding basic and physician scientists with overlapping scientific interests in the mechanisms of important physiological processes. Particular emphasis is placed on investigating the molecular basis of disease. Member laboratory groups bring a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art technologies to the Program, bridging the basic and clinical sciences. The Program is designed to provide a particularly strong and vibrant scientific environment for thesis research of graduate and M.D./Ph.D. students working with faculty who are academic leaders in their fields. Program faculty laboratories also attract large numbers of talented postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars from the United States and around the world.