Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, a vice provost at UMass Medical School and the director of its Center for Clinical and Translational Science, is a candidate to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
UMass Medical School has long been a major component of the UMass system's research operations, itself a growing priority of the university and a point of pride for its national standing.
The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations has certified the ability of doctors in training at UMass Medical School to collectively bargain, according to the union those doctors voted to join.
One very real challenge unique to vaccine distribution, both in Massachusetts and the rest of the country, has centered around overcoming skepticism and assuaging concerns about the relative safety of inoculation.
UMass Medical School called a unionization vote this week by physicians in training a first step in a process and called the residents and fellows valued members of its healthcare teams.
UMass Medical School has reached its highest ever ranking of a closely watched industry tally of federal research funding for medical schools after the amount it took in nearly doubled in one year.
Open Sky Community Services, a Worcester human services nonprofit, is participating in a study sponsored by UMass Medical School in Worcester on how art therapy can help those with serious mental illness.