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.
Congratulations to the UMass startups who have been selected as the 2025 Western Massachusetts Health Tech Challenge finalists!
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.
We appreciate their hard work and dedication, and wish them success in their future endeavors.
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.
Karen Giuliano and Juan Jiménez won honorable mention in the 2025 Team Innovation Award category.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that seven campus research teams have been named recipients of the annual Translational Seed Awards.