The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a team of researchers led by Craig J. Ceol, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine, a $963,903 three-year grant to test potential approaches to killing metastatic melanoma tumors.
Malignant melanoma is the deadliest skin cancer, killing more than 7,200 Americans annually and 60,700 people worldwide. A majority of those who die from metastatic disease have tumors exhibiting resistance to one or more current therapies.
BOSTON — Responding to the financial hardships that many Massachusetts families are facing, the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted today to freeze tuition rates for in-state undergraduate and graduate students for the 2020-21 academic year.
Across the Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell campuses, tuition will average $14,722 for the nearly 48,000 in-state undergraduate students before financial aid is provided. This keeps UMass mandatory charges nearly $1,000 lower than the average for New England public research universities.
I am truly saddened by the passing of my former colleague, mentor and dear friend, John Lewis.
Over the course of sixty years, Representative Lewis dedicated his life to the fight for equality and justice. His leadership within the Civil Rights movement and in public service has left an indelible impression on our nation. Those inspired by him will cross bridges and follow the paths he forged during decades of heroism and activism.
A new study led by UMass Medical School researchers has found that parents of premature infants on home oxygen therapy can safely and effectively report babies’ oxygen levels in between clinic visits.
Tatiana Petrovick, SOM ’21, and Emily Nuss, SOM ’21, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to conduct a study in Guatemala from January to August 2021. The J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board gives hundreds of U.S. students and citizens the opportunity to teach, research and provide expertise abroad; recipients are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement.
“This is a huge honor,” said Petrovick. “We are so thrilled to be provided this funding in order to study something we are both passionate about.”
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected Job Dekker, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, the Joseph J. Byrne Chair in Biomedical Research, professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, and co-director of the Program in Systems Biology, to lifetime membership in the organization. Dr. Dekker and 62 other leading scientists from around the world were elected in recognition of their remarkable achievements in the life sciences.
Maria M. Garcia, MD, MPH, has been appointed to the new role of assistant vice provost for diversity and student success at UMass Medical School, according to an announcement by Terence R. Flotte, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor of Medical Education, executive deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the School of Medicine, and Sonia Chimienti, MD, vice provost, student life and enrollment management.
The late Arthur M. Pappas, MD, has been recognized as an American Orthopaedic Association Pillar of the Orthopaedic Profession for his role as a pioneering visionary and tireless founding architect of the UMass Medical School Department of Orthopedics & Physical Rehabilitation.
A UMass Medical School research team has been awarded a National Cancer Institute grant to advance understanding of how hereditary breast and ovarian cancer genes work, and why tumors lacking these genes are sensitive to chemotherapy. Their findings challenge decades of research in the field that suggested chemotherapy was effective because it breaks tumor DNA into pieces.
AMHERST, Mass. – In the molecular-level world of ion channels – passageways through membranes that carry signals in a cell’s environment and allow it to respond – researchers have debated about the role of a small piece of the channel called a linker, says computational biophysicist Jianhan Chen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.