A School of Medicine student introduced to UMass Medical School through the Worcester Pipeline Collaborative is now in his second year at UMMS and remains very involved in the community of his adopted hometown.

Isaac Ofori, SOM ’24, was born in Ghana and has spent much of his life in Worcester. He and his family, including four siblings, moved to Worcester when he was in middle school.

UMass Medical School researchers Guangping Gao, PhD, and Dan Wang, PhD, are working with ASC Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing in-vivo gene replacement, gene editing and allogeneic cell therapies, to bring a gene therapy for maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) to the clinic.

UMass Medical School’s principal site investigator for Moderna’s TeenCOVE and KidCOVE mRNA COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials said that trial sites are on track to expand the number of children in the Moderna KidCOVE trial, as requested this week by the Food and Drug Administration.

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Jim Kurose, Distinguished University Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and associate chancellor for partnerships and innovation, is part of the research team recently awarded a $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build the internet of the future.

AMHERST, Mass. – We’re all familiar with the startle reflex – that sudden, uncontrollable jerk that occurs when we’re surprised by a noise or other unexpected stimulus. But the brain also has an important pre-attentive mechanism to tamp down that response and tune out irrelevant sounds so you can mind the task in front of you.

Southeastern Massachusetts STEM Network will host two, virtual events focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in August 2021. With these programs, the Network endeavors to increase the participation of groups presently underrepresented in STEM, while maintaining the interest of those groups who are presently represented in STEM. In addition, the programs seek to illustrate how STEM skills expand career opportunities and can help address the “Wealth Gap”.   

“South Coast Working” is a new podcast from the Arnold M.

Lara Matta has been announced as the new assistant director of the Translation Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

As academics continue to study the ways mis- and disinformation enter conversations on social media, one member of the UMass Amherst faculty suggests they step back and observe the issue as part of a complete media “ecosystem” – one which includes the relationships between both user-generated social media and professionally-created news media.