The 125th running of the Boston Marathon on Oct. 11 will have special significance for five runners raising money for UMass Medical School’s ALS Cellucci Fund.

“This is a monumental year because it is the 10th anniversary of the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund team participating in the Boston Marathon,” said Julie Bowditch, manager of community fundraising in the UMMS Office of Advancement. “Also, we are running the Boston Marathon the only time it is being held live in October.”

A School of Medicine student introduced to UMass Medical School through the Worcester Pipeline Collaborative is now in his second year at UMMS and remains very involved in the community of his adopted hometown.

Isaac Ofori, SOM ’24, was born in Ghana and has spent much of his life in Worcester. He and his family, including four siblings, moved to Worcester when he was in middle school.

UMass Medical School researchers Guangping Gao, PhD, and Dan Wang, PhD, are working with ASC Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing in-vivo gene replacement, gene editing and allogeneic cell therapies, to bring a gene therapy for maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) to the clinic.

UMass Medical School’s principal site investigator for Moderna’s TeenCOVE and KidCOVE mRNA COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials said that trial sites are on track to expand the number of children in the Moderna KidCOVE trial, as requested this week by the Food and Drug Administration.

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Jim Kurose, Distinguished University Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and associate chancellor for partnerships and innovation, is part of the research team recently awarded a $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build the internet of the future.

AMHERST, Mass. – We’re all familiar with the startle reflex – that sudden, uncontrollable jerk that occurs when we’re surprised by a noise or other unexpected stimulus. But the brain also has an important pre-attentive mechanism to tamp down that response and tune out irrelevant sounds so you can mind the task in front of you.

Southeastern Massachusetts STEM Network will host two, virtual events focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in August 2021. With these programs, the Network endeavors to increase the participation of groups presently underrepresented in STEM, while maintaining the interest of those groups who are presently represented in STEM.