Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, has focused her career on trying to untangle signs of the impending end of a person’s life from confounding factors such as incorrect medication.
Emily Davenport always knew she was destined to be a nurse. The Graduate Entry Pathway Doctor of Nursing Practice student is on the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner track. She was inspired by her mother, Danuta “Beth” Beata Davenport, a nurse at Baystate Noble Hospital in Westfield, who has 30 years in the field and moved to the United States from Poland in her 20s.
UMass Medical School has received approval from the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees for a project that will change the face of the Worcester campus and accelerate research into new therapeutics for some of the most challenging diseases that humans face. A new, nine-story biomedical research and education facility will be built on campus to support laboratory research growth and the educational enterprise.
The Foundation to Fight H-ABC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing awareness and driving development of a cure for this rare degenerative children's disease, has announced sponsored research agreements with UMass Medical School and Yale University to advance a targeted gene therapy for H-ABC.
"We have high hopes to quickly prove efficacy with this approach to move research forward and find a permanent cure for this devastating disease," said Michele Sloan, co-founder of the Foundation to Fight H-ABC.
Students in the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) and Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences gathered on Zoom recently for a unique opportunity to practice their quick-thinking skills.
What makes an organization committed to fully inclusive gender equity? That was the framework for the first in a series of UMass Medical School community conversations on diversity and inclusion, held over Zoom on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
The second in a series of campus conversations on diversity and inclusion was framed by the book that’s the UMass Medical School’s campus read, Ibram X. Kendi’s 2019 book How to Be an Antiracist.
Research exists around gender, sexual orientation and weight status inequities and eating disorders, but little is known about how these disparities intersect and what role social determinants may play, according to graduate student Ariel Beccia.
Investigators at UMass Medical School have received two, five-year grants totaling $13 million to explore how the 4D genome structure influences gene expression, cellular function, development and disease as it reshapes itself over time. The Center for 3D Structure and Physics of the Genome, led by Job Dekker, PhD, will receive the bulk of the funding—approximately $11 million. Paul D. Kaufman, PhD, will receive $2 million to investigate the role of the nucleolus in human genome organization in normal and disease states.
Mohona Gupta, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, moved to Massachusetts from Kolkata, India, in 2018 to attend UMass Medical School. It was the first time she had ever left her hometown, her family and her house for more than a few days.