STAT has selected a @nature.com paper on the 4D nucleome by Job Dekker, PhD, of UMass Chan to complete in #STATMadness, the bracket-style competition that celebrates the most innovative scientific research of 2025: https://direc.to/oYGD Voting opens on Monday. @jobdekker.bsky.social @statnews.com

TECHNOLOGY: Elinor Karlsson from @umasschan.bsky.social and @broadinstitute.org talks about new genomic approaches for exploring recent trait evolution in domestic pets at the 2026 AGBT General Meeting. #AGBTGM26 #genomics #domestication

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School and MIT are testing an AI tool that analyzes mammograms to predict future breast cancer risk. In early results, MRIs identified as higher-risk by the AI model uncovered cancers that mammograms missed: https://direc.to/oYwt #AI #BreastCancer #ScienceForLiving

Boston Marathon runners on the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund Boston Marathon Team have raised nearly $1 million for ALS research since 2012. First-timer Paul Seaver is running as a tribute to his dad. Read his story: https://direc.to/oY6B #BostonMarathon #BostonMarathon2026 #ALS #ALSresearch #RunForACure

Learn about options for medical students at UMass Chan. View the virtual info session schedule: https://direc.to/oW2K Get info on our track for applicants interested in urban and rural health March 3: https://direc.to/oW9b #UrbanHealth #RuralHealth #MedSky #MedSchool #MedicalSchool #MedEd #UMass

UMass Chan medical students Justin Nguyen and Cedrick Chiu have successfully matched into urology residency programs at @ucdavis.bsky.social and @washumedicine.bsky.social, respectively: https://direc.to/oWTm #UroMatch #UrologyMatch #UMassChanMatch #urology #Match2026 #UMass @uofmass.bsky.social

Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Nobel laureate Victor R. Ambros, PhD, spoke to STAT about how UMass Chan Medical School is affected by the NIH’s transition to multiyear funding and how state funding could help: direc.to/oWeg #NIHFunding #ResearchFunding @statnews.com @aniloza.bsky.social

Important OpEd by 2 Nobel laureates @umasschan.bsky.social Drs. Ambros and Mello www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...

The 12-month, NIH-funded Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UMass Chan Medical School prepares applicants for an MD/PhD or PhD in the biomedical sciences through research experiences and mentorship. Apply to PREP by Feb. 28: direc.to/oVBS #PrePhD #PhDSky #BiomedicalSciences

Meet #ASBMB2026 speaker Roger Davis! The @umasschan.bsky.social#ASBMB2026professor — and ASBMB Vallee Award honoree — transformed our understanding of JNK signaling, showing it’s not a single protein but a family encoded by three genes & diversified by alternative splicing.

February is Rare Disease Month. The Rare Diseases, Real Stories podcast series spotlights families affected by rare diseases. Listen here: direc.to/oUKe #RareDiseaseMonth #RareDisease #RareDiseases #RareDiseasesRealStories #podcast #GeneTherapy @courageousparentsnetwork.org @uofmass.bsky.social 🎧

UMass Chan and the Raiden Science Foundation have partnered on a technology license for a gene therapy product targeting the ultra-rare disease UBA5: direc.to/oUPW The foundation is named after 5-year-old Raiden Pham, diagnosed with UBA5 disorder in 2021. #GeneTherapy #RareDisease #RareDiseaseMonth

The Boston Globe surveyed researchers in Massachusetts who receive NIH funding and heard from 370, including Rachael Sirianni, PhD, a pediatric brain cancer researcher at UMass Chan: direc.to/oUwc “I’m holding my breath,” Dr. Sirianni said. #NIHFunding @docsirianni.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com

Philanthropist Gerald Chan; Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, incoming president of the National Academy of Medicine; and Robert A. Harrington, MD, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, will be honored during Commencement alongside 300+ grads: direc.to/oU5y #UMassChan2026 @uofmass.bsky.social @nam.edu

“To suggest that it’s simple to take the money and distribute it on geographic balance doesn’t recognize the importance of the investment that has been made over six or seven decades.” #ICYMI: Chancellor Michael F. Collins was featured on @politico.com & @bostonglobe.com: direc.to/oUU6 #NIHfunding

Suhas Suddala and Colin Stoll have matched into their top choice military residency programs at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: direc.to/oTCG Stoll has matched in internal medicine, while Suddala, an MD/MBA student, will do his residency training in anesthesia. #MilitaryMatch

A UMass Chan-led study found that ultrasound-guided nerve blocks provide significantly better pain relief for children with severe leg fractures while reducing opioid use by nearly 75 percent, without added risk. direc.to/oTCa #pediatrics #opiod #POCUS #EM #PEM @aem-journal.bsky.social

If the PhD admissions cuts in 2025 "prove to be a harbinger of things to come," the Boston Globe Editorial Board wrote, "it would be a grave crisis": direc.to/oTFK "Closing off opportunities for young researchers means many of them will take their ambitions elsewhere." - @globeopinion.bsky.social

This year’s flu season has been particularly severe for young children. Zachary Binder, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School, told The New York Times that many of the patients he saw during the December wave developed serious symptoms: direc.to/oTyk #flu @nytimes.com

Chancellor Michael F. Collins spoke to POLITICO about NIH director Jay Bhattacharya’s plans for a more widespread distribution of research funds: direc.to/oT1y “Cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, does not have a red or blue component,” Collins said. #NIHfunding #ResearchFunding @politico.com

UMass Chan Medical School is leading a multi-site study using mindfulness and AI-driven insights to improve movement, sleep and daily functioning for people with chronic low back pain: direc.to/oT7K #BackPain #mindfulness #AI @uofmass.bsky.social

Focus on epidemiology, biostatistics and health services research while earning a PhD in biomedical sciences through the Population Health Sciences Pathway at UMass Chan. Register for the virtual info session on Feb. 11: direc.to/oTeK #PhD #PhDSky #epidemiology #biostatistics #PopulationHealth

Melissa Fischer, MD, MEd, one of the recipients of the 2025 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards, spoke to AAMC about what makes someone a good teacher and educational innovator and how we learn from medical errors: direc.to/oSVc #MedEd #MedSchool #MedicalSchool @aamc.org

From patient portals to text messages and wearables, digital health can improve outcomes, but only when it’s built around patient needs. Daniel Amante, PhD, MPH, shows how patient-centered design keeps technology human and care effective: direc.to/oS3V #AI #DigitalHealth #ScienceForLiving

The early admission deadline for most UMass Chan nursing programs is Sunday, Feb. 1. Reserve your spot in our Doctor of Nursing Practice, PhD, MS in Nursing and Interprofessional Leadership and Post Graduate Certificate programs: direc.to/oRRH #nursing #nurse #NursingPhD #leadership

Jennifer Bradford, MD, was the keynote speaker for UMass Chan Medical School’s tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Read about the recipients of the inaugural Chancellor’s Award for Mission-Aligned Community Impact and the Student Service Recognition Awards: direc.to/oRpx #MLK #MLKawards

The Worcester Business Journal profiled UMass Chan’s AI Assurance Lab, an initiative established in April to test the ethical use of AI in health care. Read about how the lab’s focus has shifted in its first nine months of operation: direc.to/oRem @umassmedicine.bsky.social @wbjournal.bsky.social

UMass Chan medical students are leading a monthly culinary workshop at the Barre-Hardwick Senior Center to teach hands-on cooking skills tailored to common senior dietary needs. Watch the video: direc.to/oRbL #community #MedSchool @chronicle5.bsky.social @wbur.org @nbcboston.com

Christopher Teng, MD, MBA, was part of a team that delivered free, complex eye care and hands-on surgical training in Nepal last month, advancing health equity and empowering local physicians to restore sight even though the mission has ended: direc.to/oQLJ #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #RestoreSight

“I have recognized that by improving a system or patient care process, I can impact and improve the care for many more.” - Sarah Pierce, RN, BSN Apply by Feb. 1 to save your spot in the master's program in nursing and interprofessional leadership at UMass Chan: direc.to/oQL_ #nurse #leadership

UMass Chan Executive Deputy Chancellor and Provost Terence R. Flotte is being recognized as a champion and supporter of women in medicine by the American Medical Women's Association: direc.to/oQqZ #WomenInMedicine #PhysicianAward #MedicalExcellence @amwadoctors.bsky.social

Technology developed by chemists Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, and Hassan Fakih, PhD, of UMass Chan has been licensed by nonprofit biotech company PLaN Therapeutics to develop a therapeutic for a rare, inherited heart disease, PLN-R14del cardiomyopathy: direc.to/oQwA #RNA @rti-umasschan.bsky.social

Zachary Binder, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School, wrote about the “superflu" for @theconversation.com. Read why Dr. Binder says this season is different from others and why he believes in most cases, home testing for flu is not especially useful: direc.to/oQk8 #flu

At a roundtable with Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, Beth McCormick, PhD, said that instability in federal funding leads to low morale and smaller cohorts of researchers and more challenges for early-career investigators looking to pursue science research. #ResearchFunding

A UMass Chan study found that the decline in the brain’s subcortical regions was more rapid in FTD patients than Alzheimer’s patients: direc.to/opbM The study is led by Manojkumar Saranathan, PhD, and Arit Banerjee, a PhD candidate at @umassamherst.bsky.social. #FTD #alzheimers #dementia

“The patient populations for which it’s privileged for us to care and to find better treatments is again threatened.”- Chancellor Michael F. Collins, commenting to @bostonglobe.com about uncertainty around mental health grants: direc.to/oosD #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding

A UMass Chan-led research team has nearly tripled the known number of potential regulatory elements in the genome to 2.37 million. Read about the paper, published in @nature.com, on the new registry: direc.to/oouM #genome #epigenetics #CRE @moorejille.bsky.social @zhipingweng.bsky.social

“Really what's at hand here is the future of health and science and technology in our country." - Rachael Sirianni, PhD, speaking to Here & Now about how delays in federal funding have affected her pediatric brain cancer research: direc.to/ooYx #ResearchFunding @docsirianni.bsky.social @npr.org

UMass Chan Medical School is one of 277 institutions—and one of just four medical schools—to meet the criteria for the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. direc.to/oo8h #CarnegieCE2026 #community #Worcester @aceducation.bsky.social @uofmass.bsky.social

Work by the 4D Nucleome Consortium, led by Job Dekker, PhD, reveals a systematic map of the structure and function of the human: direc.to/ooab #genome @jobdekker.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social @nature.com @marionicodemi.bsky.social @creminslab.bsky.social @gladstoneinst.bsky.social

The most viewed UMass Chan News story in 2025, with more than 28,000 views, was this 2022 piece written for @us.theconversation.com. Kavita Babu, MD, professor of emergency medicine, explains what fentanyl is and how to prevent fentanyl deaths: direc.to/oihw #fentanyl @kavita-babu.bsky.social

Happy New Year! We can’t wait to see what accomplishments UMass Chan Medical School faculty, staff and students will celebrate in 2026. #HappyNewYear2026 #HappyNewYear #UMass @uofmass.bsky.social @umassmedicine.bsky.social @umassdiabetes.bsky.social @rti-umasschan.bsky.social

Following a $35 million commitment from the DiMare Foundation, UMass Chan dedicated the Paul J. DiMare Center in July: direc.to/oihb The gift supports research into neurodegenerative and genetic diseases, especially ALS. #AdvancingTogether2025 #UMass @uofmass.bsky.social @martymeehan.bsky.social

After learning about the impact of federal funding cuts and delays (direc.to/oifE), Governor Maura Healey has been working to secure research funding at the state level through the DRIVE initiative, work continuing into 2026. #AdvancingTogether2025 @massgovernor.bsky.social @uofmass.bsky.social

Zachary Binder, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at UMass Chan, says the surge in flu cases he predicted earlier this month has happened. Dr. Binder discusses RSV preventive treatment and how it has the potential to reduce hospitalizations and severe illness: direc.to/oiRX #flu #RSV

UMass Chan launched the Rare Diseases, Real Stories podcast series in 2025 to shine a spotlight on the courage, resilience and advocacy work of families affected by rare diseases. All episodes are available: direc.to/oidj #AdvancingTogether2025 #RareDiseasesRealStories @courageousparentsnetwork.org

Sean Ryder, PhD, spoke with Worcester Magazine about RNA therapeutics and how they may treat a wide variety of health conditions in the future and the quest to separate facts from misconception: direc.to/oinD #RNA @seanryderphd.bsky.social @rti-umasschan.bsky.social @worcestermagazine.bsky.social

Research out of the Martin lab in 2025 provided insights into binge drinking behavior and alcohol dependency. The story on the research, that may lead to new therapeutic targets. was one of our most read stories of the year: direc.to/oicV #AdvancingTogether2025 #BingeDrinking

This year’s animated greeting card features the Paul J. DiMare Center, dedicated in 2025. A $35 million commitment from the DiMare Foundation supports ALS and other neurodegenerative and genetic disease research. #AdvancingTogether2025 #UMass @uofmass.bsky.social @umassmedicine.bsky.social

UMass Chan was ranked one of the best medical schools for primary care education in 2025, with research and the Doctor of Nursing Practice highly rated by @usnews.com: direc.to/oibe #AdvancingTogether2025 #rankings #BestMedicalSchools #BestGradSchools #MedEd #MedSchool #UMass @uofmass.bsky.social