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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 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.

Primary care education at UMass Chan ranked first in Massachusetts and among the best nationwide, according to the U.S. News & World Report.

UMass Chan’s DNP program ranked No. 1 as a result of its licensure pass rates, graduation rates, tuition and the overall quality of education.

Published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the UMass Chan study revealed that intestinal inflammation changes how nerves are arranged in the intestine.

Developed at UMass Chan, a human monoclonal antibody to prevent Lyme disease demonstrates safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics.  

PhD candidate Hannah Rogers received an NIH grant for her research examining how composite signals from neurons work to shape behavioral responses to food.

Fen-Biao Gao, PhD, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  

Silvia Galván Peña, PhD, and Jin Zhang, PhD, are two of five recipients of a 2026 Hood Foundation Award.

T.H. Chan School of Medicine students in the Class of 2026 celebrated successfully matching into their residency programs on March 20, including a record number of couples matches.    

Two of the students in the BaccMD pathway program reflected on their journeys to and through medical school as they prepared for Match Day.  

Second-year medical student Lillian Cain joined the MassAHEC Rural and Urban Health Scholars program to give back to the community where she grew up: Worcester.  

The honor recognizes sustained efforts or leadership contributions to positively impact the career development of postdoctoral scholars.