Institute for Applied Life Sciences : UMass Amherst

Research and Innovation to Translate Basic Science into Product Candidates

The Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) translates fundamental research into innovative product candidates, technologies, and services that deliver benefits to human health and well-being. Our specific objectives are to: (1) Become a catalyst and resource for ‘applied’ and ‘translational’ R&D activities; (2) Establish industry engagement models and industry collaborations; (3) Contribute to workforce development; and (4) Participate to innovation & entrepreneurship culture on campus.

Facility Highlight

Center for Human Health and Performance

Center for Human Health and Performance

The Center facilities include: Exercise Intervention & Outcomes, Human Motion, Living Science, Room Calorimeter, Sleep Monitoring.

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Upcoming Events

MCB Colloquium - Olivia Macrorie

Oct 21 2019 - 12:10pm

Olivia Macrorie Advisor: Dom Alfandari, VASCI Joshua Foster Advisor: Min Chen, Chemistry Afua Adusei Advisor: Tricia Serio, BMB LGRT 1634

Multispecifics: The 4th Wave of Modern Biopharmaceutical Innovation

Oct 22 2019 - 12:00pm

LSL S330-340-Conference Center

Ray Deshaies, Senior Vice President, Global Research-Amgen

Understanding Selective Autophagy

Oct 22 2019 - 4:00pm

MCB Seminar Wade Harper Harvard Medical Morrill 2, Room 222 Host: Eric Strieter Seminar Location: Morrill 2, Room 222

Risk factors for early natural menopause

Oct 23 2019 - 4:00pm

VASCI Seminar BRIAN WHITCOMB, PhD UMass Amherst 221 Integrated Sciences Building Speaker: BRIAN WHITCOMB, PhD Notes: Refreshments at 3:45pm

No seminar this week - Society for Neuroscience conference

Oct 23 2019 - 4:00pm

NSB Colloquium

Host-Microbe Interactions in an Evolutionary Model Organism

Oct 24 2019 - 11:30am

MICRO Seminar Kat Milligan-Myhre, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences,... 222 Morrill Science Center II

Structural Mechanisms and Drug Discovery in Alzheimer’s Disease

Oct 24 2019 - 11:30am

No Chemistry Seminar this week CHEM Seminar Lederle Graduate Research Tower 1634

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TaCore Tuesday-Core Facilities Showcase

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Data to Knowledge-Research advances improve data capture from wearable tech

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Institute for Applied Life Sciences

N510 Life Science Laboratories
240 Thatcher Road
Amherst, MA 01003-9364
contactials@umass.edu | 413-545-1710