Official Twitter Account of the Program in Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School
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Congratulations to postdocs, Anna Moyer from the Thyme Lab and Flaviane Silva from the @guertin_lab for earning fellowship awards for research on Down syndrome, polycystic kidney disease umassmed.edu/news/articles/2…
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On behalf of Molecular Medicine, a big thank you to Katherine Luzuriaga, MD for her leadership on the renewal of the NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational) grant! @RogerJDavis1 @UMassChan
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Dr. Roger Davis was honored with the ASBMB's Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science in Washington DC, recognizing his discovery of signaling protein JNK and the decades of insight that followed. Congratulations!! @RogerJDavis1 @UMassChan
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Congratulations to Dr. Jin Zhang, one of the recipients of the 2026 Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards! 👏🎉
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Two @UMassChan faculty have received a 2026 Child Health Research Award from the Charles H. Hood Foundation: direc.to/o38x
Silvia Galván Peña, PhD, studies the gut’s immune cells. Jin Zhang, PhD, studies how artificial sweeteners desensitize sweet taste. @ProgMolMed
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Congratulations to Nils Grotehans, postdoctoral fellow of the Spinelli Lab, for receiving an award from the American Federation for Aging Research and the Glenn Foundation 👏
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Lina Marcela Carmona, PhD, and Nils Grotehans, PhD, are two of 26 early career researchers to receive competitive awards from the American Federation for Aging Research and the Glenn Foundation: direc.to/odAY
The awards will support research on the biology of #aging.
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Dr. Jessica Spinelli for recently being named to the renowned Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Freeman Hrabwoski Scholars Program👏👏👏 @UMassChan @HHMINEWS
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🎉Congratulations, Chandler Friend, for receiving an award for her talk on breast cancer at the Cancer Biology Program retreat this week! 👏@RDavisLab
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Roger Davis, PhD, FRS, chair and professor of molecular medicine at @UMassChan, has received the 2026 Bert & Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science from @ASBMB for his outstanding accomplishments in basic biomedical research: direc.to/nML6 @RogerJDavis1 @ProgMolMed
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PhD student Claire Shamber has been awarded an @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund her research redefining the mammalian metabolome and investigating metabolic adaptations in mammalian disease states: direc.to/n9Tp
#NSFfunded #NSFGRFP #PhDTwitter @ProgMolMed
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ALT PhD student Claire Shamber with her mentor, Jessica Spinelli, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine.
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Diabetes Virtual Camp, created by Jason Kim, PhD & family, is back! Originally started during the pandemic to connect students with diabetes experts worldwide, this FREE online program has reached over 2,700 students from 52 countries. Learn more at umassmed.edu/dcoe/news/diabe…
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Congrats to our own @PetersonLab, Vice Chair of Molecular Medicine, and newest endowed chair at UMass Chan Medical School!
The UMass Board of Trustees voted to approve six new endowed chairs, appointing highly accomplished faculty to five chairs, and renaming an existing endowed chair to memorialize a cherished member of the community: brnw.ch/21wTkzl
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Research by Joel Richter, PhD, of @UMassChan licensed to @QurAlisCo for clinical adaptation for #FragileX, the most common single genetic cause of #autism: direc.to/njwV
Symptoms include severe anxiety and seizures. There are no effective disease-modifying treatments.
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Dr. Spinelli spoke to postdocs, grad students & research techs @UMassChan, drawing from her faculty job search experience, about how to present big scientific ideas and explain your research in a way that a varied audience will understand. bit.ly/4k5NlIO
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Congratulations @KateKorobkina for successfully defending her PhD dissertation 🎓 with data from research she led in the @guertin_lab @UMassChan about brown fat thermogenesis & metabolism which could lead to new approaches for managing Type 2 diabetes & metabolic disorders 🥳🎉
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Jessica Spinelli, PhD, identifies rhodoquinone, a metabolite in bacteria and worms, as a fundamental electron transporter in the mammalian electron transport chain. Research could have clinical potential for protecting cells from hypoxia: direc.to/nb84 @CellCellPress
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Congrats to the Spinelli Lab on their publication in Cell, and first-time first authors Madison and Jonathan!
Rhodoquinone carries electrons in the mammalian electron transport chain: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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Victor R. Ambros, PhD, @UMassChan's Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, has won a Nobel Prize. Media: Email UMassChanCommunications@umassmed.edu for news conference info and interview requests. #NobelPrize #BreakingNews #AdvancingTogether
ALT Congratulations to Nobel Prize winner Victor R. Ambros, PhD, of UMass Chan Medical School
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