Our vision to translate fundamental research into innovative product candidates, technology, and services that deliver benefits to human health and well-being has been very successful since we opened our doors in 2014. Our vision has been so successful because of your support, and I would like to take this opportunity to also thank you for tagging your grants to your center(s). Tagging your grant to your center(s) allows us to create funding opportunities for faculty & students to facilitate additional research. These are some of the things we have been able to accomplish in FY24 in the three research centers.
Models to Medicine Center
- Purchased BioRender, a tool to create professional science figures in minutes.
- Offered Core Facilities Incentive Funds for faculty & post doctoral research.
- Offered Core Training Funds for graduate students.
- Supported summer graduate student internships.
- Funded Midigrants to help faculty with research.
- Funded students for the Quantitative Fluor Microscopy course.
- Purchased Pymol for the UMass campus a graphic interface for protein structure visualization.
- Funded HPC Facilitator in Research Computing to provide a bridge to life scientists.
- Purchased instrumentation such as cryo-EM tools.
- Supported summer graduate student internships.
Center for Bioactive Delivery
- Purchased BioRender, a tool to create professional science figures in minutes.
- Planned CBD Day an event to create coalitions that bring experts in disease research and delivery platforms together.
- Offered Core Facilities Incentive Funds for faculty & post doctoral research.
- Offered Core Training Funds for graduate students.
- Supporting summer graduate student internships.
Center for Personalized Health Monitoring
- Purchased BioRender, a tool to create professional science figures in minutes.
- Planned a Junior Faculty Lunch, an event to mentor assistant & associate faculty.
- Offered Core Facilities Incentive Funds for faculty & post-doctoral research.
- Offered Core Training Funds for graduate students.
- Supporting summer graduate student internships.
- Funding Midigrants to help faculty with research.
- Funding Research Thrusts to provide ‘scaffolding’ for interdisciplinary groups of researchers to coalesce and form strategic partnerships and interdisciplinary collaborations towards the goal of submitting proposals for future funding and broader impact.