When news of the first confirmed Ebola case in West Africa broke in March, Patricia McQuilken, a University of Massachusetts Medical School doctor working at a hospital in Liberia, felt confident the virus could be contained. But it was not, and today she and a UMass team are back in Liberia
Strategists are targeting the holiday giving period and the spring commencement season as part of a new, two-stage effort to raise up to $1 billion in private funds for scholarships and financial aid, faculty research and other priorities at the five-campus University of Massachusetts.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $9.5 million grant to investigators at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to establish a research center that would investigate the cause and treatment the most common form of inherited intellectual and developmental disability, known as Fragile X.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of Massachusetts Medical School announced plans to build a new treatment facility in a partnership designed to expand health care access to veterans.
A professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is one of six biomedical researchers to be awarded with a Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his co-discovery in genetics, the Worcester school announced Monday.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester will partner with Atlanta-based medical device firm LumaMed in a joint clinical study to evaluate the effectiveness of an imaging platform used in breast cancer surgery, and possibly other types of cancer surgeries.