The announcement came in late June 2018, just as many people were turning their attention to Fourth of July cookouts and summer vacation plans. The federal agency tasked with solving critical health…, Racing for a Vaccine, One of those early-stage biotech companies is Versatope homepage Versatope , which develops vaccines and therapeutics. Versatope has been working to develop a universal flu vaccine and was awarded a…, Faster Testing, Another M2D2 resident, Nuclease Probe Technologies ( Nuclease homepage NPT ), is working to develop a faster testing method for COVID-19. NPT specializes in developing simple blood tests to rapidly…, Critical Resources, To support the federal government’s coronavirus medical countermeasure efforts, BARDA is funding awards of up to $750,000 for COVID-19 diagnostics through its EZ-BAA program. M2D2 also offers…
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As CEO and chief scientific officer of Franklin, Mass.-based MRN Diagnostics, Gregory Chiklis has spent the past six weeks in a race against the clock, working on a rapid blood test for COVID-19.…, RIVER HAWK LEGACY, He joined MRN as CEO in 2018, after 14 years as president and CEO of ZeptoMetrix Corp. His first job after earning his Ph.D. was with the start-up Hemagen Diagnostics. After finishing his…
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Dear students of UMassD, In January, when we started our spring semester, no one could have predicted the situation in which we now find ourselves. In just a few weeks, the coronavirus has…
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The fourth cohort of UMass Boston students graduated in the winter 2020 session of the Commonwealth Seminar on March 11 marking one year of the partnership between UMass Boston and the Commonwealth…
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AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper, Thomas Russell and postdoctoral fellow Ganhua Xie, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, report that they have used…
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The move to remote learning has meant big changes for all UMass Lowell students. But many are also coping with drastic financial changes, says Julie Nash, vice provost for academic affairs. In the…
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How many programs can confidently say: “We have individuals every year who run for political office”? And how many of those individuals are a part of a diverse cohort of women leaders 2020 is the…
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Music may have the power to soothe, but for more than a week, those who teach it have been scrambling to adjust to the new reality of COVID-19 and online instruction. While adapting his classes as…
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Stating that “Graduating medical students are ready: let’s get them to work,” Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved a bold and unprecedented…
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