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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.
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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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#WhyWorcester
Michael Green and Allan Jacobson elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Two distinguished scientists from UMass Medical School—Michael Green, MD, PhD, and Allan Jacobson, PhD—have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2018. They join a group of 213 individuals elected this year that includes Barack Obama and 2018 UMMS Commencement speaker Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD.
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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
PhD candidate Devyn Oliver named Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellow
Devyn Oliver, a PhD student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, has received the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial mark National Minority Health Month
UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care observed National Minority Health Month on Wednesday, April 11, with a lecture by Brooke Cunningham, MD, PhD, and awards for reducing health care disparities and cultural competence in medicine.
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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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