Griffin Kane, co-founder and CEO, receives Judges’ Choice Best Startup at the 19th annual Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI) Day, on July 23rd, earning top honors among emerging life sciences ventures from across Massachusetts.
Co-founder and CEO of NanoVax Therapeutics, Griffin Kane, completed the Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) SPARK 2026 program.
Lili He, professor and head of food science, and Yuzhen Zhang, a postdoctoral researcher, have created a smartphone-based technology to detect bacteria contamination on surfaces such as food processing plants, hospitals and other public environments.
Neil Forbes, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Shradha Khanduja, doctoral candidate and first author, explain their research on using engineered non-toxic Salmonella bacteria to deliver viruses that are safe to humans but potent against liver and pancreatic cancer tumors, both with extremely poor prognosis.
Rajakumar Nagarajan, an MRI Physicist at hMRC, presented novel findings on the determinants of muscle performance during exercise at the prestigious International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
Sean McBeath, assistant professor in the Riccio College of Engineering and recent master's graduate and first author, Faye Kuszewski, publish their findings in the Journal of Hazardous Materials.
Ivan Lee, associate professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences and IALS translational cohire, and Juhyeon Lee, PhD candidate and first author, published their findings in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering which was recognized with a Featured Article Award.
IALS had the pleasure of hosting Satoko Ishigaki, Keita Suzuki, Hiroki Masumo, and Taena Uemura of Hokkaido University for a tour of the Core Facilities led by directors James Chambers and David Follette, through the H.U.-UMass Two-Way Professional (Technical) Staff Development Program.
Lili He, department head and professor of food science, and director of the Raman, IR, and XRF Spectroscopy core facility, received funding to develop a faster, safer and more affordable way to test for arsenic in foods focusing on high-risk foods such as apple juice and rice products, including infant rice cereal.
Jianhan Chen, professor of chemistry and IALS translational cohire, and colleagues have revealed new insights into the body’s electrical communication system by studying a key cellular ion channel known as the BK (big potassium) channel.
IALS Founding Director Peter Reinhart was recently featured on WWLP‑22 News InFocus, highlighting two major new additions to campus research infrastructure: the Bruker timsTOF fleX Mass Spectrometer in the Mass Spectrometry core facility and the UpNano NanoOne Bio 3D printer in the ADDFab core.
A team of researchers from civil and environmental engineering, led by professors Simos Gerasimidis and Chengbo Ai, have received the inaugural IDEAS | next Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction for pioneering a field-ready cold spray additive manufacturing repair technique.
Sankaran “Thai” Thayumanavan, distinguished professor of chemistry and biomedical engineering, and Ryan Lu and Jithu Krishna, graduate students and lead authors, have developed precise methods for shredding or repairing and replacing specific cancer-causing proteins in a malignant cell and could have applications beyond cancer to a wide range of immunological diseases.
The investments, through MLSC’s Research Infrastructure Program, brought a next-generation mass spectrometer for molecular research and a cutting-edge two-photon 3D printing system for precision biofabrication to campus, significantly expanding the university’s research, training and industry collaboration capabilities.
Jiahui (Chris) Wu, assistant professor of chemistry and IALS translational cohire, and Daisy Pham, graduate student and lead author, have developed an innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells.
Researchers Katherine Boyer and Jane Kent have secured a five-year, $3.4 million NIH grant to study why older adults require more energy to walk as their pace slows down.
Twelve campus research teams have been named recipients of the annual Translational Seed Awards. These awards advance applied R&D efforts from UMass-based faculty research groups towards the development of spin-out/startup companies and the out-licensing of UMass intellectual property.
The UMass Amherst ART program hosted Rich G. Carter, Oregon State University and the Promotion and Tenure – Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PTIE) team as part of their collaboration through U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Accelerating Research Translation (ART) award.
Human Magnetic Resonance Center at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences hosted first Translational MR Imaging Workshop.
Embr Labs partnered with professor Mike Busa and his team in the Center for Human Health and Performance to develop a breakthrough feature for the Embr Wave wearable device.
Peter Reinhart, Karen Utgoff, Julian Lustig-Gonzalez, Heather Aiken and Paul-Miki "Ralu" Ibekwe participated in a two and a half day course delivered at MIT.
The 2024-2025 cohort of Translational Graduate Student Assistants completed their program with a symposium sharing their path towards translation.
An app that turns consumer Apple Watches into tools for highly sophisticated sleep stage monitoring was developed by team of researchers led by professor Joyita Dutta at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.