In his March 30 video address to the UMass Medical School community, Chancellor Michael F. Collins recognized the many people who have stepped up to help as everyone copes with the COVID-19 pandemic…
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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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Department of Computer Science Computer Science Prof. Prof. Xinwen Fu Xinwen Fu has been awarded more than $4.5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (…
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Midway through spring break, students learned that the campus would be switching completely to online classes, due to the rapid spread of UMass Lowell coronavirus alerts COVID-19 . Everyone got a…, Zoom Me In, Finn lives way out in the woods in Manchester-by-the-Sea, with no cable connection and spotty internet service. That means she and her older brother, who’s working remotely, have to go to their…, On and Off Campus, Not all students have moved back home. Hikma Abajorga, a senior Plastics landing page plastics engineering major from Ethiopia, can’t finish her classes from home because there’s no reliable…
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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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Sophomore biology major Kingsly Mante Angua has a lot of things that he wants to do when he graduates from UMass Boston—like become a pediatric surgeon, or work with Doctors Without Borders, or go…
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Since 2003, the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and Stephen Silliman, professor and chair of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts at UMass Boston, have been running the Eastern Pequot…
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AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper, Thomas Russell and postdoctoral fellow Ganhua Xie, at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, report that they have used…
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