The Institute for Applied Life Sciences offers industry-relevant training in the UMass Core Facilities over the summer. The Core Summer Internship program provides hand-on experiential research and technical training to UMass undergraduate students in state-of-the-art research facilities located on the Amherst campus.
Positions include 3D printing, human subjects' studies, NMR, wearable devices, and microscopy to name a few.
Daniel J. Riccio Jr. ’86, ’24MS has committed $50 million to support immediate and long-term initiatives to fuel innovative research, strengthen academic excellence, and expand access and opportunity for generations of engineering students.
Wouter Hoogkamer, assistant professor of kinesiology tested a prototype marathon shoe that PUMA created with computational design, and found it to improve running economy by up to 3.6%.
Craig, a professor of chemistry, has been chosen for his research into RNA synthesis using a technique that improves its quality and yield while significantly lowering the cost.
Congratulations to the UMass startups who have been selected as the 2025 Western Massachusetts Health Tech Challenge finalists!
Twenty-one teams of faculty and librarians, across four tiers, have been awarded Strategic Partnerships to Advance Research and Creative activity (SPARC) seed grants.
Seven projects were awarded to 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.
IALS core staff members can contribute to your research programs by offering deep expertise and new ideas for experimental design, data collection, and analysis methods.
Shanlong Li, post-doctoral researcher in the Jianhan Chen lab and Chen, professor of chemistry and IALS translational cohire, recently announced a new publicly available tool, called iConRNA.
We appreciate their hard work and dedication, and wish them success in their future endeavors.
Jacelon has dedicated her expansive nursing career to rehabilitation and older adult care – and developed a dignity scale used around the world.
UMass Amherst alumnus is tapping into the university’s robust venture development resources to launch his start-up, which seeks to replace toxic and “forever” chemicals in battery manufacturing.
A student researcher in the Light Microscopy Facility has received the Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award for his outstanding contributions to the facility.
Kim, assistant professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, has received an NIH Trailblazer Award to push forward the development of robotic guide dogs for the visually impaired, work that he says is practical, useful, and meaningful for humanity.
Decker, professor in food science, has been honored for his research into free radical oxidation of lipids and mechanisms of antioxidants in numerous food systems.
The scientific team from Ernest Pharmaceuticals have made “exciting,” patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial therapy, BacID, to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly into tumors.
Five faculty members across the UMass Amherst campus were named the recipients of five-year U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards.
Sup, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, and Giuliano, professor of nursing and IALS translational cohire, coPIs of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering (EMCNEI) have been awarded nearly $3M to establish the nation’s first graduate training program designed to combine nursing’s hands-on patient care with engineering’s technical knowledge.
Srimathveeravalli is a co-recipient of the 2025 Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for his series of achievements in cancer therapy, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.
Heather Aiken, program manager for the NSF Accelerating Research Translation program, was one of four students representing UMass Amherst at the 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) Workshop in DC.
Human Magnetic Resonance Center at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences hosted first Translational MR Imaging Workshop.
The third cohort of one-year translational Graduate Student Assistantships start in Fall 2025 and end in Summer 2026.
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.
Welcome to Lindsey Litwak, Seth Glass, Matthew Belden, and S. Sendhil Velan!
Since 2019, the IALS research centers and the Light Microscopy core facility has supported sending trainees to a week-long, intensive light microscopy training. This spring doctoral candidates, Priyanka Bhattacharyya (chemistry, You lab) and Sarah Mirza (veterinary and animal sciences, Mager lab) will attend Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2025 held at the beautiful Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory.
Lee, a Donna M. and Robert J. Manning Faculty Fellow and associate professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, and an IALS translational cohire, will guide the flagship publication of the world’s largest biomedical engineering conference.
Jessica has been selected to the 2024-25 class of Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program.
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.
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.
Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and an IALS translational cohire, and Shuai Fu, graduate student and lead author, announced the creation of an artificial neuron with electrical functions that closely mirror those of biological ones.
Lee, associate professor of chemical engineering and an IALS translational cohire, and four research colleagues have received a U.S. patent for their invention called “Demineralized Bone Paper” (DBP), which they fabricate from ultra-thin slices of demineralized compact bone.
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.
Kirk Taylor, MD, visited UMass Amherst at the end of January, which included a tour of the Life Science Laboratories by IALS director, Peter Reinhart.
The team sequenced and compared 36 different Foc strains collected from all over the world, to find out what is decimating this breakfast staple.
Congratulations to the nine UMass Amherst founders who participated in the Massachusetts Life Science and Innovation Day at The Engine at MIT.
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.
Karen Giuliano and Juan Jiménez won honorable mention in the 2025 Team Innovation Award category.
Associate professor of chemical engineering and member of M2M, received a Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).
Held in Hawaii in May 2025 this leading global forum for magnetic resonance innovation brings together experts from around the world to share groundbreaking developments in the field.
This research could pave the way for novel drug therapies that target the site where misfolds occur.
Schiffman and Perry, both professors in chemical engineering, and Perry is an IALS translational cohire. The $2 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation is in collaboration with researchers from Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Univ. of Buffalo and the Air Force Research Lab.
The 2024-2025 cohort of Translational Graduate Student Assistants completed their program with a symposium sharing their path towards translation.
Congratulations to the graduate students who were awarded the IALS Translational Graduate Student Assistantship for 2024.
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.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that seven campus research teams have been named recipients of the annual Translational Seed Awards.
Wei, extension associate professor of veterinary and animal sciences, director of Animal Models core, and a translational co-hire in IALS, is one of eight recipients to receive this multidisciplinary award.