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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.

Upcoming Events

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    Clifton Strengths-CSI Professional Development Workshop

    1:00 pm - LSL S330-340, Conference Center
    Utilize Your Strengths to Succeed in School, Work and Life. The Core Summer Interns (CSI) will participate in a workshop to explore top strengths, understand how they shape your experiences, and discover ways to apply them effectively in your studies, relationships, and future careers.
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    Internships-CSI Professional Development Workshop

    1:00 pm - LSL S330-340, Conference Center
    The Core Summer Interns (CSI) will participate in an interactive workshop designed to help navigate the internship search with confidence. Key topics like work authorization (CPT/OPT), strategies for finding opportunities, résumé tips, and how to effectively communicate your unique strengths to employers will be covered.
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    18th Annual MALSI Day

    1:00 pm - The Engine, 750 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
    This is a high-energy, hands-on, global event which brings together scientific leaders and business experts to mingle with scientists, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists.
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    Translational Research

  • A gel meant to suspend cells to test environmental toxicity accidentally formed a bubble which altered the colors of the cells around it. Fluorescently stained cancer cells suspended in a hydrogel matrix during a live/dead staining. A bubble trapped during the crosslinking process warps the image and cells around it. Shane Priester, Biomedical Engineering Department
    • Models for Optimized Drug Delivery 

    Center for Bioactive Delivery

    CBD creates new ways to deliver “The right drug to the right place: by creating novel delivery platforms for small and large molecules.”  Developing a wide range of delivery platforms matched to bioactive molecular delivery needs based on fundamental design principles, including nanoemulsions, nanoparticles, hybrid particles, bacteria, and hydrogels.

  • Tracking Trainers CPHM
    • Wearable Sensors for Precision Healthcare Delivery & Biometric Monitoring 

    Center for Personalized Health Monitoring

    CPHM seeks to tackle real-world problems in the emerging field of digital healthcare, wearable sensor technologies, and personalized, precision healthcare delivery, interfacing closely with provider networks, hospitals, and industry across the Massachusetts Commonwealth, and the world.

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    • Translating Fundamental Biology into New Targets, Leads & Disease Models 

    Models to Medicine Center

    M2M leverages mechanistic insights into molecular pathways implicated in cell health and in disease pathology to identify novel drug targets and therapeutic candidates.

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    Shared Resources

    UMass Amherst Core Facilities

    We work together with researchers toward a singular goal: advancing applied science and technology to address the world’s most pressing challenges. The UMass Amherst Core Facilities offer expertise and resources that create new opportunities, not only for scientific achievement, but also for establishing new models of collaboration.

    Animal Imaging

    Animal Imaging

    This facility conducts research using equipment capable of fluorescence and luminescence imaging independent of or concurrent with CT imaging.

    Pillars for Energy! Nanostructured Carbon Pillars: This 3-Dimensional nanostructured hierarchical network in carbon is the ultimate route to efficient energy storage! Imaged at the cross-sectional site of a nano-patterned film using Scanning Electron Microscope. What you see are the focussed and out-of-focus pillars at a micron scale, which creates an amazing electronic graph! Sravya Nuguri Polymer Science and Engineering Department, College of Natural Sciences IALS-UMass Core Facilities

    Electron Microscopy

    Transmission (TEM) and Scanning (SEM) Electron Microscopes as well as related sample preparation equipment..

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  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    • Advance Your Research from Idea to Impact 

    Innovation Services

    IALS Venture Development programs are here to help you! Our programs support development of startups and industry partnerships by UMass researchers based upon their technologies and product concepts.

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  • Core Summer Internship
    • Hands-on Training and Experience for the Next Generation Workforce 

    Student Engagement

    Providing students from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) hands-on training and experience in the use and operation of a state-of-the art research equipment, experience gathering data and data analysis, and the development of team science.

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  • Seed Funding
    • Innovation Grants, Incentive Funds and Subsidized Training 

    Funding & Benefits

    IALS Research Centers (CBD, CPHM, M2M) contribute incentive funds to stimulate novel uses of the Core Facilities as well as subsidize training for student users. The IALS midigrant is a flexible seed fund mechanism up to $20,000 to enable new translational research and explore new collaborations within IALS. The Manning/IALS Innovation Grants provide up to $100,000/award to advance translational and applied R&D efforts from faculty groups and startup companies.

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