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  • UMass Chan summer outreach programs inspire next generation of physician-scientists

    UMass Chan summer outreach programs inspire next generation of physician-scientists

    Classrooms and labs kept busy this summer at UMass Chan, hosting high school and college students participating in outreach programs.

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  • Riccio Fund advances research projects in opioid tolerance, long-term memory storage

    Riccio Fund advances research projects in opioid tolerance, long-term memory storage

    Four UMass Chan Medical School faculty members received awards to support interdisciplinary research in neuroscience.

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  • Biotech executives and venture capitalists come to UMass Chan to hear faculty start-up pitches

    Biotech executives and venture capitalists come to UMass Chan to hear faculty start-up pitches

    UMass Chan Medical School faculty made new company pitches to leaders from nearly two dozen venture capital firms and other industry organizations.

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  • ‘Science essential to society’: PhD candidates honored at 2026 award ceremony

    ‘Science essential to society’: PhD candidates honored at 2026 award ceremony

    Graduating PhD candidates in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School were celebrated during an awards ceremony on May 28.

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  • UMass Chan Reverse Science Fair has Worcester high schoolers judging grad students, postdocs

    UMass Chan Reverse Science Fair has Worcester high schoolers judging grad students, postdocs

    The classic science fair format was flipped at UMass Chan as Worcester high school students judged research posters by graduate students and postdocs.

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  • Faculty achievements recognized at UMass Chan’s Educational Recognition Awards and Last Lecture

    Faculty achievements recognized at UMass Chan’s Educational Recognition Awards and Last Lecture

    Howard J. Sachs, MD, associate professor of medicine, delivered the Last Lecture titled “The Inevitable Journey.”

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  • UMass Chan scientist Beth McCormick discusses impact of NIH funding changes with Massachusetts AG

    UMass Chan scientist Beth McCormick discusses impact of NIH funding changes with Massachusetts AG

    UMass Chan scientist Beth McCormick, PhD, was joined by representatives from nonprofits, human services, higher education and municipalities at the Office of Massachusetts Attorney General to talk about the Trump administration’s disruptions to federal funding. 

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  • PhD candidate Emily Sholi receives grant to study pathogens’ impact on ribosomes

    PhD candidate Emily Sholi receives grant to study pathogens’ impact on ribosomes

    PhD candidate Emily Sholi has received an NIH fellowship to further her ribosome research, investigating how pathogens inhibit host ribosomes.

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  • Jessica Spinelli, Emma Watson named to distinguished HHMI scholars program

    Jessica Spinelli, Emma Watson named to distinguished HHMI scholars program

    Jessica Spinelli, PhD, and Emma V. Watson, PhD’16, are the first UMass Chan faculty members to receive the award.

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  • Roger Davis awarded Bert and Natalie Vallee Award from American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    Roger Davis awarded Bert and Natalie Vallee Award from American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    Roger J. Davis, PhD, FRS, has been awarded the 2026 Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

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