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Rare Diseases Research
With 40 investigators committed to unlocking the causes and potential cures for rare diseases, the Li Weibo (李伟波) Institute for Rare Diseases Research at UMass Medical School demonstrates a rare commitment to rare diseases research.
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Worcester Tech students credit UMMS support as key to biotech career path
Worcester Public School officials, the city manager and students thanked UMass Medical School on Tuesday, May 15, for an $875,000 donation that has enabled the biomedical and health program to thrive at Worcester Technical High School.
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Match Day 2018: Michele's Match
Marie-Michele Sainvil matched in medicine-pediatrics at University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital in New York. This is the culmination of years of extraordinary determination and hard work. She came to the United States from Haiti without her parents at age 7. Match Day is the first major educational milestone she has been able to share with her parents since bringing them to Worcester in 2010.
Hudson Hoagland Society celebrates 33rd Annual Meeting
The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Hudson Hoagland Society featured presentations by Silvia Corvera, Tiffany Moore Simas and Jason Kim, on good fat and bad fat, as well as the announcement of the 2018 Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research grant recipients.
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UMass Medical School HIV vaccine to be tested in new Phase I trial
A Phase I clinical trial testing the safety of vaccines that might have the potential to prevent HIV infection will begin this month at four sites in the United States, marking the latest step in a three-decade quest by UMass Medical School’s Shan Lu, MD, PhD, to harness the power of DNA vaccines.
Read moreTherapeutic genome editing by combined viral and non-viral delivery of CRISPR system components in vivo
Epigenetic characteristics of the mitotic chromosome in 1D and 3D
Bacterial Metabolism Affects the C. elegans Response to Cancer Chemotherapeutics
Microsatellite Expansion Diseases: Repeat Toxicity Found in Translation
Education
Susan Hou receives second annual Alumni Distinguished Service Award
Susan Hou, MD, SOM ’75, accepted the second annual Distinguished Alumnus Service Award from the UMMS Alumni Association during Reunion 2018 at UMass Medical School for her extraordinary contributions to health care at home and abroad.
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Luanne Thorndyke receives medical society’s Woman Physician Leadership Award
Luanne E. Thorndyke, MD, has received the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Woman Physician Leadership Award. The honor recognizes outstanding leadership and contributions to patients and the medical profession by a woman physician.
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Grant expands opportunities for underrepresented students in biomedical sciences to pursue graduate study
A new, $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant is funding an expansion of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Pathway to Graduate Studies program. Brian Lewis, PhD, is co-investigator on the grant.
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