

The Dan and Diane Riccio Fund for Neuroscience will support four seed grants this year at UMass Chan Medical School.

Eviatar Yemini, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology, is one of 13 investigators nationally to receive a 2022 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience.


In a new study, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and UMass Chan Medical School mapped the expression and maturation of the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) with unprecedented clarity.

UMass Chan Medical School researchers are investigating the oral microbiome’s connection to debilitating long-term COVID-19 neurological symptoms. A study led by John P.

Kodiak Soled, PhD, vice president of the Lesbian Health Fund at GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, presented, “Fighting for our families: A community-placed study of LGBTQ+ childbearing hardships, harms and hope for a brighter futur
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst undergraduate student has contributed significant work regarding the growth of stars and black holes, providing key insight into how they are linked. This new information will allow the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to more efficiently untangle how, exactly, galaxies work.