2022 Latest News
- Archives -UMass Chan BRIDGE Fund supports seven faculty projects with commercialization potential
BRIDGE Innovation and Business Development at UMass Chan Medical School has awarded $2.2 million to seven faculty-led biomedical research projects.
UMass Chan MD/PhD student’s published COVID-19 rapid testing research guides FDA
Carly Herbert, a MD/PhD student at UMass Chan Medical School, is a student investigator and the first or second author named on six publications on rapid COVID-19 tests.
A.M. Barrett named chair of Department of Neurology at UMass Chan
Physician-scientist A.M. Barrett, MD, is joining UMass Chan Medical School as chair and professor of neurology. Additionally, Dr. Barrett has been named chief of the Neurology Service at the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System.
UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center targets COVID-19 spread in the community
The UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center is working with partners to promote vaccination, track infections and tackle social determinants of health affecting vulnerable groups.
Remillard Family Community Fund announces recipients of grants to improve local health
Ten grants will fund collaborations led by UMass Chan Medical School faculty, students and community partners that have the potential to improve the health of Central Massachusetts residents, particularly those who are economically or educationally disadvantaged or underrepresented.
Collaborative effort led by Marian Walhout spotlights worms as model for personalized medicine
UMass Chan researcher Marian Walhout, PhD, along with collaborators at Northwestern and Cornell, have developed an animal model system to interrogate individual differences in metabolism.
Aspiring doctors expand horizons with Summer Enrichment Program at UMass Chan
Thirty-nine students completed the 2022 Summer Enrichment/BaccMD Program, an intensive immersion program aimed to help college undergraduates from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds who want to become physicians improve their qualifications and competitive standing for admission.
Pride Month discussion centers on LGBTQ+ perinatal and reproductive health disparities
Kodiak Soled, PhD, vice president of the Lesbian Health Fund at GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, presented, “Fighting for our families: A community-placed study of LGBTQ+ childbearing hardships, harms and hope for a brighter future.”
UMass Chan researchers study link between oral microbiome and long COVID
John P. Haran, MD, PhD, is studying neurological long-COVID symptoms in working-age, generally healthy people who were vaccinated prior to infection.
Amber Cahill named Bloomberg American Health Initiative fellow
Amber Cahill, PsyD, has been named a fellow in the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.