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ForHealth Consulting at UMass Chan Medical School is a key partner in launching nursing apprenticeships designed to strengthen Massachusetts’ health care workforce.

Eight UMass Chan faculty members were honored during the 26th annual Women’s Faculty Committee Awards on May 21.

As more people enter pregnancy with type 2 diabetes, researchers and clinicians at UMass Chan are studying new ways to improve care before, during and after pregnancy.

Phillip Tai, PhD, received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop adeno-associated viral vectors for gene therapies.

The UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science has been awarded a seven-year, $50 million renewal of its Clinical and Translational Sciences Award.

Yemini is one of 15 researchers from the United States and Canada to receive a Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award in 2026.

Academic degrees will be awarded to more than 300 students on Sunday, May 31, at UMass Chan Medical School’s 53rd Commencement.

Terence R. Flotte, MD, and colleagues outline plans for addressing the current market challenges for gene therapy treatment of rare and ultra-rare disorders.

Erik Sontheimer, PhD, and Wen Xue, PhD, have developed a gene editing technology that allows for precise, efficient insertion of very large DNA segments into the human genome.

The camp is free and is accepting applications from high school students in the Worcester Public Schools system.

Nursing PhD student William Mar, PhD candidate Humberto Ochoa and MD/MBA student Suhas Suddala will represent their respective peers at UMass Chan’s 2026 Commencement.

The classic science fair format was flipped at UMass Chan as Worcester high school students judged research posters by graduate students and postdocs.

Nursing student Stefan Malek hopes to combine his work experience in substance use facilities with his knowledge of cardiac medicine for his DNP scholarly project.

Marcus Ruscetti, PhD, received a $750,000 2026 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize to advance his lab’s pancreatic cancer research.

Toloo Taghian, PhD, a has received a $3.2 million NIH grant to develop a gene therapy for UBA5 deficiency.  

Howard J. Sachs, MD, associate professor of medicine, delivered the Last Lecture titled “The Inevitable Journey.”

Filmmaker Jessica Zitter, MD, MPH, and Betty Clark, MDiv, are the featured speakers for the annual Howe Endowed Lecture Series.

Findings from the SMART-AI trial were recently published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Ekaterina Pivovarova, PhD, is a principal investigator on a five-year, $8 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

UMass Chan is supporting a collaboration among leaders in academic medicine to strengthen nutrition training in medical education.

UMass Chan licenses gene therapy technology to treat maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) to Plowshare Therapies. 

Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, is one of 252 people elected to the academy this year. 

Joseph Peng, a sophomore at Shrewsbury High School, is the 2026 Central Massachusetts Brain Bee winner. 

Howard J. Sachs, MD, will present his lecture, “The Inevitable Journey.”

New research by Louis Messina, MD, aims to understand why aging slows down wound healing in older adults.

Researchers at UMass Chan are looking into rapid point-of-care HPV testing that delivers results in about 30 minutes. 

A new study led by David C. Ayers, MD, finds that robotic-assisted knee replacement leads to higher patient satisfaction and better quality of life.  

As part of an initiative to help reduce unnecessary waste, students, faculty and staff participated in a 24-hour trash audit at UMass Memorial Medical Center.  

After five years of teaching middle school math and science classes, medical student Matthew Segil, MEd, enrolled in UMass Chan and UMass Lowell’s dual MD/MBA program.

The UMass Board of Trustees unanimously approved UMass President Marty Meehan’s nomination of David D. McManus, MD’02, ScM’12, MBA, as the next chancellor of UMass Chan.