The UMass Dartmouth Career Center has big plans for UMassD students.
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.
The Worcester Business Journal announced on Jan. 10, that its readers have chosen the UMass Cancer Walk and Run as the best nonprofit fundraiser event in Central Massachusetts. Since 1999, 100 percent of money donated has supported adult and pediatric cancer research and clinical trials at UMass Chan Medical School.
Five teams of UMass Chan Medical School students have been awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Student Awards to implement community service programs. The award program is an initiative that enhances health care education for UMass Chan students as they expand the institution’s impact and reach in local neighborhoods.
An interdisciplinary team of UMass Amherst researchers had their recently published article chosen as a “hot” article in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.