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Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Trivedi, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Pulmonary and Allergy and Dr. Paul L. Greer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine for being selected as the latest recipients of Clinical Research Scholar (KL2) Awards. KL2 scholars receive salary and research support to pursue their work and careers in clinical and translational science.

It was another impressive year of downloads from the UMassCCTS collections in eScholarship@UMMS. We do wonderful collaborative work together, thanks to Lisa Palmer and the rest of the staff in the Lamar Soutter Library at UMMS.

Great researchers and mentors at UMMS & UMCCTS are training the next leaders in Clinical & Translational Science. 2017 was another amazing year of productivity by our TL1 Trainees and KL2 Scholars!

Check out our new UMCCTS brochure and learn all about the services we offer!

Congratulations to the latest recipients of UMCCTS Pilot Project Awards - Kathleen Biebel, PhD, Benjamin Chen, MD, PhD, Sarah Goff, MD, John Haran, MD, Katherine Luzuriaga, MD, Rene Maehr, PhD, and Jae-Hyuck Shim, PhD.

Five competitors will vie for funding at M2D2 Medical Device Innovation competition. Interesting projects being pitched!

Five competitors will vie for funding at M2D2 Medical Device Innovation competition Novel biomedical devices proposed by five teams will be evaluated by a panel of judges at the 2017 Medical Device Innovation competition at UMass Medical School.

The UMCCTS Research Career & Writing Group (K-Club) has new leadership and a new schedule. If you're interested in receiving information and feedback on academic career development and on preparing a Research Career Award application (NIH K Awards, VA Research Career Awards, CTSA K12 grants, etc.), consider attending. You can find more details and the updated schedule on our website.

K-Club - CCTS | UMass Medical School - Worcester The UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science Research Career Award Writing Group K-Club, established in 2007, is co-lead by Drs. Douglas Ziedonis and Sherry Pagoto. Most faculty who participate and apply for a research career award have been very successful in getting funded (>80% success...

Thank you to Dr. Catarina Kiefe, Co-Director or the UMCCTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design and Co-Director, CTRP Program, Translational Workforce Development, for volunteering to be our first interview in what we hope is the start of a new means of spreading the news about the great work done by our different core services and programs. You always need a guinea pig when it comes to trying something new. Kudos to Dr. Kiefe for being such for us!

Stay tuned for these interviews. We'll begin posting them soon!

Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Through its Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules (New Therapeutic Uses) program, NCATS aims to improve the process of developing new treatments and cures for disease by finding new uses for existing therapies that already have cleared several key steps along the development path.…

Hemant Khanna exploring innovative gene therapy for severe inherited eye disorder Research by Hemant Khanna and the Horae Gene Therapy Center at UMass Medical School explores gene therapy for the most common form of Leber congenital amaurosis.

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