UMass Dartmouth Assistant Professor Scott Field, Ph.D., and graduate students, Tousif Islam and Feroz H.
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Yang Wang, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and deputy director of product discovery at MassBiologics of UMass Chan Medical School, leads a team of scientists working to discover and develop antibody-based medicines for infectious diseases and to understand drug resistance in those medicines.
“The world is full of viruses that can cause human disease,” said Dr. Wang. “Some of them are well known, such as the flu virus, while others are new, such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that can cause COVID-19.”
Chancellor Michael F. Collins named Mary Munson, PhD, the recipient of the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion at the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. tribute at UMass Chan Medical School on Jan. 24.
Back in early 2020, few would have imagined work, school or community life would be carried out largely over video screens. Few in medicine would have foreseen the never-ending pressure of a virus that keeps threatening to overwhelm the health care system.
And few would have imagined that even a year after vaccines and treatments became available, much of life’s routines would still be dictated by COVID-19.
Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD, has been elected by the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology to its Board of Trustees. Her three-year term will begin April 1.
Evan Bilsbury knew he wanted to be a doctor from a young age, after enduring the loss of his infant brother and witnessing the support that had been provided to his family by the child’s medical team during months of treatment.
Adding a safe, inexpensive and easy to administer form of vitamin D to treatment for children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes shows promise to improve measures of disease progression. Results of a randomized clinical trial comparing ergocalciferol supplementation to placebo, conducted by Benjamin Udoka Nwosu, MD, is published in the January issue of the Journal of the Endocrine Society.