The has big plans for UMassD students.
Yang Wang, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and deputy director of product discovery at , leads a team of scientists working to discover and develop antibody-based medicines for infectious diseases and to understand drug resistance in those medicines.
鈥淭he world is full of viruses that can cause human disease,鈥 said Dr. Wang. 鈥淪ome of them are well known, such as the flu virus, while others are new, such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that can cause COVID-19.鈥
Chancellor Michael F. Collins named Mary Munson, PhD, the recipient of the 2022 Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion at the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. tribute at UMass Chan Medical School on Jan. 24.
Back in early 2020, few would have imagined work, school or community life would be carried out largely over video screens. Few in medicine would have foreseen the never-ending pressure of a virus that keeps threatening to overwhelm the health care system.
And few would have imagined that even a year after vaccines and treatments became available, much of life鈥檚 routines would still be dictated by COVID-19.
Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD, has been elected by the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology to its Board of Trustees. Her three-year term will begin April 1.
Evan Bilsbury knew he wanted to be a doctor from a young age, after enduring the loss of his infant brother and witnessing the support that had been provided to his family by the child鈥檚 medical team during months of treatment.
Adding a safe, inexpensive and easy to administer form of vitamin D to treatment for children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes shows promise to improve measures of disease progression. Results of a randomized clinical trial comparing ergocalciferol supplementation to placebo, conducted by Benjamin Udoka Nwosu, MD, is published in the January issue of the .
The Worcester Business Journal announced on Jan. 10, that its readers have chosen the as the in Central 橙子影院. Since 1999, 100 percent of money donated has supported adult and pediatric cancer research and clinical trials at UMass Chan Medical School.
Five teams of UMass Chan Medical School students have been awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Student Awards to implement community service programs. The award program is an initiative that enhances health care education for UMass Chan students as they expand the institution鈥檚 impact and reach in local neighborhoods.
An interdisciplinary team of UMass Amherst researchers had their chosen as a 鈥渉ot鈥 article in the journal .