The makers of an artificial pancreas, a tiny, precise glucose monitoring system and an electronic, glucose-monitoring band-aid will all be participating in a new diabetes medical innovation challenge.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester will receive $250,000 for pediatric cancer research from the nonprofit arm of Hyundai Motor America.
A professor from UMass Medical School in Worcester played a leading role in a new study that discovered a gene linked to ALS which could put scientists on the track to new therapies for the disease.