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TaCore Tuesday Recap
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, IALS hosted the first annual UMass Core Facilities Showcase.
The event began with a poster session where each facility provided their capabilities, testimonials, and the scientific value that they have added to their corresponding industry. Core directors as well as...
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Engineer Jinglei Ping Wins AFOSR YIP for Multiscale Electrical Mapping of Biosystems
Jinglei Ping, an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department (MIE) in the College of Engineering as well as IALS, has been awarded a prestigious early career award from the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) in the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (...
M2M
Researchers Develop New Technology to Detect Foodborne Disease
Food scientist Matthew Moore, Models to Medicine, has received two grants from the USDA to apply new technology in an effort to more quickly detect and trace foodborne disease caused by noroviruses and bacteria.
Under the USDA’s ...
IALS/M2M
Bioinformatics Training
Members of Li-Jun Ma Lab, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, are hosting Bioinformatics Training. There will be a four week long NGS-data analysis training taking place in IALS, running from Nov. 7 to Dec. 5. The sessions, which will occur from 6-7pm on Thursdays, will be held in LSL N415. ...
M2M
UMass Amherst-led Cross-disciplinary Research Examines Fertility Impacts of Male Environmental Exposure
A cross-disciplinary team of scientists, led by environmental epigeneticist Richard Pilsner, Models to Medicine, will use a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to expand research into the impact of phthalate exposure on male...
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Students Hold Inaugural Nursing PhD Symposium
The Inaugural Nursing PhD Symposium, held Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Institute of Applied Life Sciences Conference Center, gathered together a diverse consortium of scientists, community advocates, educators and entrepreneurs to explore the future of nursing and the role of nurse-scientists in...
M2M
Bioanalytical Chemist is Inventing New DNA-based Probes
Assistant professor Mingxu You, chemistry, and M2M recently received a five-year, $1.9 million NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to fund his research in developing new tools – DNA-based probes– to quantify intercellular mechanical forces and understand a variety of mechano-...
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Engineering Professor Joseph Bardin Part of Google Research Team That Reports Quantum Breakthrough in Computing
Joseph C. Bardin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and IALS High Frequency Sensor Development Laboratory and Sensor Integration Coordinator, is a member of the multi-disciplinary research team that has published a new paper in the journal Nature that says...
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IALS Announces the Six Winners of the Inaugural Manning/IALS Prize
Peter Reinhart, IALS founding director, has announced that six campus research teams have been named recipients of the first Manning/IALS Seed Grants. The awards will support next steps in their research such as proof-of-concept studies and business development, fundamental research into new...
CPHM
UMass Amherst Scientists Developing Necklace-like Wireless Device to Improve Understanding of Schizophrenia
Biomedical informatician Sunghoon Ivan Lee and wireless health scientist Jie Xiong have received a $1.15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a wireless device, worn like a necklace, that aims to transform the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia. The...
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IALS Boots Startup Companies like Aclarity
UMass Amherst technology spin-off Aclarity raised more than $1 million in initial venture capital pre-seed funding. CEO Julie Bliss Mullen and COO Barrett Mulley are UMass Amherst alumni.
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TaCore Tuesday-Core Facilities Showcase
Please mark Tuesday, October 15, in your calendars for the first UMass Amherst Core Facility Showcase in the LSL Conference Center from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. There is no formal program, please feel free to stop by when you can for as long as you can.
The full agenda is below and...
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Ernest Pharmaceuticals a Winner in Mass Tech Transfer Contest
Ernest Pharmaceuticals CEO and bioengineer Nele Van Dessel presented the poster at MTTC’s 12th annual Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation
Day; the company was one among 30 vying for four prizes. She says she and co-founder Neil Forbes, a professor of chemical engineering at UMass
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IALS/CPHM
Data to Knowledge-Research advances improve data capture from wearable tech
Deepak Ganesan, computer science professor and director of the Center for Pesonalized Health Monitoring (CPHM), leads the center’s work on the computer science aspects of wearable technologies for mobile health – pervasive sensing and improving data capture and analysis from both...
IALS/CPHM
Sunghoon Ivan Lee receives two-year grant to research battery-less wearable sensors
Smartwatches were big breakthroughs when they hit the market in the early 2000s. Even nascent versions got consumers excited with their ability to play games and access newsfeeds. Two decades later, that Fitbit® or Apple Watch® on your wrist can actually collect, store and transmit data....
