Browse stories by category: Top Story 2018

• Top story: FDA approves first drug to use RNA interference, based on discoveries made at UMass Medical School

  December 26, 2018
• Top story: UMass Medical School ranked among nation’s finest for primary care

  December 26, 2018
• Top story: UMass Medical School scientists safely deliver RNAi-based gene therapy for ALS in animal model

  December 26, 2018
• Top story: UMass Medical School researchers explain why cannabis may relieve intestinal inflammation

  December 26, 2018
• Top story: John Harris lab identifies new pathway to reverse vitiligo

  December 26, 2018
• Physician-scientist Jane Freedman focuses on improving cardiovascular health

  December 14, 2018
• UMass Chan licenses clinical-stage gene therapies for Tay-Sachs, similar diseases to Axovant

  December 13, 2018
• UMMS scientists receive $1.6M in NIH funding to improve genome editing techniques

  December 03, 2018
• NIH grant supports UMMS research on ‘off switch’ for extra chromosome in Down syndrome

  November 29, 2018
• Victor Ambros named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  November 27, 2018