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David Kennedy, a PhD and neuroinformatics expert at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, received a five-year, $6-million grant renewal to fund a center for brain imaging research.

Schaal came to the U.S. to take an ophthalmology fellowship at the University of Louisville, after receiving both her medical and doctoral degrees in Israel and serving as a physician in the Israeli navy.

UMass alumni Dan and Diane Casey Riccio have pledged $15 million to UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester to support ALS and neuroscience research, the school announced Thursday.

Jason Shohet, a professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has received a second grant for cancer research totaling $300,000, two years after the first grant, according to a Monday announcement on the school’s website.

The University of Massachusetts system, which includes UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, is requiring all its students, faculty, and staff to receive the COVID-19 vaccine booster, according to a Tuesday press release from UMass.

A clinical trial for ALS research led by two UMass Chan Medical School doctors has shown significant progress in suppressing the most commonly mutated ALS gene, according to an announcement from the Angel Fund for ALS Research.

UMass Chan Medical School researcher Zaida Ramirez-Ortiz, an assistant professor of medicine, has received a 2021 Lupus Innovation Award from the Lupus Research Alliance, according to an announcement on the UMass Chan website Wednesday.

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester are beginning phase II clinical trials of the Moderna COVID-19 booster shots in adults.

UMass Chan Medical School has begun construction on the foundation for its nine-story education and research building in Worcester, about five months behind its original schedule.

The healthcare system is in a moment of transition, according to panelists and speakers at WBJ’s annual Health Care Forum.