UMass ALS Cellucci Fund Boston Marathon teams have raised more than $800,000 for ALS research since 2012. This year’s team hopes to add $50,000 to that.

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

Anthony Rothschild, MD, will lead a study at UMass Chan to evaluate the effectiveness of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.

UMass Chan Medical School and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, have received approval from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education to establish a new regional medical school campus in Burlington.

UMass Chan Medical School researchers are taking lessons learned from a pilot study on at-home COVID-19 testing and telehealth and broadening their evaluation to a larger federal Home Test to Treat program.

Fourth-year medical students Naomi Stuffers and Elisa Rocha traveled to Rwanda this fall to perform obstetric fistula repairs with Cynthia Hall, MD, and the International Organization of Women and Development.

Some of the achievements at UMass Chan led by Marlina Duncan, EdD, vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, are listed in celebration of her being named as one of Color Magazine’s Power 50 chief diversity officers. 

UMass Chan Medical School generated more than $2 billion in economic activity in Massachusetts in 2022, according to the recently released UMass Economic Contribution Analysis report.

Learning about the unique health care needs of military veterans will be required for second-year students in the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, starting this month with an intensive two-day training at the Veterans Affairs clinic on the UMass Chan Medical School campus in Worcester.