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.
Six campus research teams have been named recipients of the fifth annual Manning/IALS Innovation Awards. These translational grants advance applied R&D efforts from UMass-based faculty research groups toward the development of spin-out/startup companies and the out-licensing of UMass intellectual property.
Aclarity, a start-up supported by the IALS Venture Development program, successfully completed its Series A funding round, raising $15.9 million. Aclarity is a water technology company that quickly and safely destroys dangerous contaminants in water at the industrial scale and is the leader in PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) "forever chemical" destruction.
Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication (ADDFab) Core Facility Director Dave Follette and Intern Simon Brooks, Mechanical Engineering ‘25, were approached by a client about a rather interesting project — they were asked to develop a 29-inch model of a black sea bass.
Xheme, a specialty materials company based at the UMass Amherst Mount Ida Campus in Newton and affiliated with the UMass Innovation Institute (UMII), has developed a non-toxic programmable powder to make “smarter” plastics and coatings. Xheme Multifunctional Additives (XMAs), which can be customized based on application, boast a range of promising uses, from the next generation of blood storage bags to paint that is more resistant to fungus and fading.
Michael Busa, Director of Center for Human Health and Performance, and Embr Labs have created a machine-learning algorithm to predict a hot flash before a person perceives it.
Virtual reality and augmented reality (AR/VR) smart glasses, automobile Lidar, cell phone camera lenses, night vision, terrain mapping, and facial recognition — all are technologies dramatically improved by metalenses. Metalenses are extremely thin optical structures that combine multiple functions of traditional and bulky curved optics into an ultracompact package and are key to enabling a wide range of next-generation products in consumer, health care, aerospace, and defense markets.
Veterinary specialist Carlos Gradil has invented an intrauterine device, called the Pearl Pod, for horses who experience extreme symptoms during their heat cycle. This device is safer than oral hormone administration for human handlers or other devices that pose health risks to the horses.
These RA positions will be under the supervision of the Core Facility directors, and will function similarly to an external internship position – the graduate student will essentially be on leave from their PIs lab for the duration of the summer period. There shall be no split appointments between the PIs lab and the Core Facility.
Jinglei Ping, member of the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring and assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, has been awarded the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health.
While we often think of diseases as caused by foreign bodies—bacteria or viruses—there are hundreds of diseases affecting humans that result from errors in cellular production of its proteins. A team of UMass researchers recently leveraged the power of cutting-edge technology to unlock the carbohydrate-based code that governs how certain classes of proteins form themselves into the complex shapes necessary to keep us healthy.
The Institute for Applied Life Sciences invites full proposal applications for 2023 Manning/IALS Seed Grants of up to $100,000 for translational R&D. These grants are part of the Manning/IALS Innovation Program, which is designed to help advance UMass Amherst translational and applied R&D through the development of startup companies or the out-licensing of UMass IP.
Optical Waters, a startup supported by the IALS Venture Development program, was awarded National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase II (NSF SBIR Phase II) funding in order to scale and optimize their manufacturing methods.
The Sleep Monitoring Core Facility is seeking three summer interns to assist with the following:
Please join us on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 for the third annual UMass Amherst Core Facility Showcase in the Life Science Laboratories Conference Center from 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
On Tuesday, November 7, IALS hosted the third annual UMass Core Facilities Showcase!
The event began with two excellent student presentations. Neeraj Raghuraman, MIE, Srimathveeravalli group, presented on “Irreversible electroporation-assisted decellularization of intestinal tissues for use as a potential graft in bladder reconstruction therapy,” and Gabrielle Villafana, BMB, Rausch group, presented on “Determining the effect of LRP1 inhibitors on tau spread in vivo.” Great work to both students!
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that seven campus research teams have been named recipients of the annual Translational Seed Awards.
Ernest Pharmaceuticals and Organicin Scientific have won the top prizes at Lever’s 2024 Western Massachusetts Health Tech Challenge