Institute for Applied Life Sciences

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

Biophysical Characterization

Discovery-Based Research and Assay Development for Translational Applications

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IALS Showcase and Research Image Competition

IALS is hosting a showcase event and research image competition in the Science and Engineering Library throughout the 2020 spring semester.

Upcoming Events

Innovators Warm-Up

Feb 27 2020 - 9:00am to 10:30am

LSL N210

The Innovators Warm-Up introduces the lean startup approach and explains how I-Corps @ UMass Amherst programs can help you test product ideas that emerge from your academic researc

Progress in understanding perovskite materials and manufacturing of efficient and stable solar cells and modules

Feb 27 2020 - 11:30am

CHEM Seminar Jinsong Huang University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lederle Graduate Research Tower 1634

A thorny question: The regulation of stem cell proliferation and arrest

Feb 27 2020 - 4:00pm

PB Seminar Vivian Irish Yale University Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222 Host: Tobias Baskin Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222

The Design of Functional Biomaterials: Synthetic Lubricants, Tough Degradable Elastomers and Single Dose Vaccines

Feb 28 2020 - 2:15pm to 3:15pm

LSL N610

Prof. David Putnam–Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University

Pollinators and pollination in the Anthropocene: the social ecology of pesticide exposure in bees

Feb 28 2020 - 4:00pm

OEB Seminar James Crall Harvard University Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222 Host: Lynn Adler Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222

The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Cupcakes to Smartphones, the Mechanisms Underlying How Mindfulness Helps Change Habits

Mar 2 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Old Chapel

We are all vulnerable to craving.

MCB Colloquium - Samar Mahmoud

Mar 2 2020 - 12:15pm

Samar Mahmoud Advisor: Peter Chien, BMB French 209

News

IALS All-Hands Update & Social-Save the Date

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Peter Chien (M2M) Among 68 Fellows Elected into the American Academy of Microbiology

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Core Facilities at UMass Amherst Takes Giant Step for Research

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