Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, will spend four months focusing on a project aimed at optimizing medication prescribing in older adults.  

Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, professor of medicine, will succeed Catarina Kiefe, MD/PhD, as the director of the Medical Scientist Training Program.

MD/PhD student and aspiring dermatologist Vincent Azzolino volunteers at Camp Discovery, a free summer camp funded by the American Academy of Dermatology, for children with chronic skin conditions. In the lab at UMass Chan, he studies enteroviruses and their drug resistance.

The special event included a tour and an unveiling of the donor acknowledgement plaque in the building’s main lobby.

The $50,000 award will support collaborative research studying how the brain and organs communicate using extracellular vesicles.

UMass Chan is a recruitment site for the study and is working in partnership with teams from Boston University and UCLA.

The $505,000 five-year grant will support Dr. Orzalli’s research on the skin’s immune system and its defense against viral infections

PhD candidate Bradley Class has received a NIH grant to further his research on neuron mutations and ataxia-telangiectasia, a rare disease characterized by impaired motor function, dilated blood vessels and a weakened immune system.

Research by Sumeda Nandadasa, PhD, a scientist at UMass Chan, uncovers a molecular mechanism affecting ciliopathies such as Meckel-Gruber and Joubert syndromes and cystic kidney disease.

Patrick Gallagher, MBA, will be joining UMass Chan as the deputy executive vice chancellor, people strategy on June 30.