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June 5, 2016
LOCAL RESIDENT RECEIVES PHD FROM UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
WORCESTER, MA—Graduate’s name of city/town received a PhD from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical Schoolon Sunday, June 5, 2016, at ceremonies held on the university campus in Worcester. He/she is the son/daughterof parents’ namesof city/town of residence.
Graduate’s last nameearned his/herundergraduate degree from name of undergraduate schoolin year.
Following graduation, graduate’s last name will ______(work where, doing what? research interests/focus?)
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, established in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, enrolled just seven PhD candidates in its first class and has since evolved and gained national and international recognition for excellence in preparing research scientists and educators who conduct laboratory research on a vast array of issues related to human disease, and who serve on medical science faculties at institutions worldwide.
The school offers 9PhD tracks of study: biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, bioinformatics and computational biology, cancer biology, cell biology, clinical and population health research, immunology and microbiology, interdisciplinary graduate program, neuroscience, and translational science.
UMass Medical School attracts more than $266million in research funding annually and has built a reputation as a world class research institution, consistently producing noteworthy advances in medical research into human disease and treatment. Craig C. Mello, PhD, and colleague Andrew Fire, PhD, of Stanford University, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in discovering RNA interference, a naturally occurring mechanism through which scientists can “knock out” the expression of specific genes. The 1998 discovery has spawned an entirely new field of scientific inquiry and is used in laboratories around the globe to speed medical research into the biologic functions in human disease. The mission of UMass Medical Schoolis to advance the health and well-being of the people of the commonwealth and the world through pioneering education, research, public service and health care delivery. For more information, visit www.umassmed.edu.
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