UMass Medical School

New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company PTC Therapeutics, Inc. has received marketing authorization from the European Commission for a gene therapy treatment manufactured in partnership with MassBiologics of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester.

Following an historic $15-million pledge in February by UMass alumni Dan and Diane Casey Riccio, their eponymous neuroscience fund will support four projects in 2022.

The research commercialization division of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester granted $2.2 million to seven awardees to advance healthcare innovations.

The Remillard Family Community Service Fund at UMass Chan Medical School announced the 10 projects that would receive up to $20,000 in funding this year, for a total of $136,760.

A new report shows Greater Worcester is significantly behind the stagnated state in having women as leaders.

Seven employees at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester ranked among the top 16 highest-paid state employees in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the 2021 fiscal year, including Chancellor Michael Collins, who is the overall highest-paid state employee. 

Hospital profits have fallen significantly across the state, including hospital systems based in Central Massachusetts, according to the latest report by the Center for Health Information and Analysis. 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Integrated Circuits and System Lab and its director, Ulkuhan Guler, are probing the leading edge of new means to enhance medical care and wellness through microelectronics.

UMass Chan Medical School professor Dr. David Harlan will be the new director of the JDRF Center of Excellence in New England, effective immediately.

Three professors at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester will join the more than 60 faculty who’ve been appointed to endowed chair positions.