Research Core Administration at UMass Chan Medical School

12/06/2022

Katie Couric will deliver the Commencement address at UMass Chan Medical School on June 4, 2023, as UMass Chan celebrates its 50th Commencement Exercises.

07/13/2021

Dr. Robert Finberg, who sits on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's vaccine advisory board, is asked whether it is realistic for schools to have rules for some kids, but not others?

01/09/2020

On January 28th, Our 3D printing core is hosting a 3D bioprinting demo event! Come join us!

12/19/2019

To our valued UMASS Medical School Viral Vector Core customers:
We are pleased to announce the establishment of a large-scale viral vector manufacturing facility here at the UMASS Medical School campus! Please see the introduction of the press release from December 16th!

11/15/2019

Join us for imaging week November 18th - 22nd!

11/15/2019

Here are some photos from our 3D Printing open house taken place on November 5th! We were able to showcase our printers and give our attendees a chance to understand our future goals with this core!

11/07/2019

UMass Medical School Worcester hosted "The 4th New England Cryo-EM Symposium" on October 30th. UMass is happy to say it was a big success! Here are some pictures from before registration -

09/05/2019

Our Cryo-EM Facility has officially acquired a new piece of equipment called the CryoFIB, Aquilos! Here is a little background on what this machine does:
- A dedicated DualBeam (Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscope) system to prepare cryo-lamellas for cryo-electron tomography
- Fully rotatable cryo-stage (

09/05/2019

It is official! The Flow Core will be acquiring a BD FACS Melody, 3-laser (Violet/Yellow/Blue) 8-color Cell Sorter with plate sorting block! It will be housed in a biosafety cabinet so, human cells? YES! mCherry? YES! Plate sorting? YES! Daytime Self-sorting? YES!
More updates on this machine coming to the Flow Core website soon!

08/16/2019

Welcome to our for this week! Introducing our Umbilical Cord Blood Program! Here is some background and important information regarding this program!
- Providers inform their patients on options to donate cord blood sometime around their 28 week prenatal visit.
- The cord blood team follows up with all patients that are eligible to donate once they are admitted to the labor floor.
- There are two options for cord blood donation:
First option: donating to a public blood bank. There, they make the blood into units for transplant that can be given to someone with cancer, leukemia, a blood disorder etc. This option requires paperwork and a blood sample from the donor so that the bank can ensure that patient is healthy and able to donate.
Second option: donating to research. We work in collaboration with labs at UMass Med, the main one being the Humanized Mouse Core. There, they are conducting studies on diabetes, human immune system function, and infectious diseases, and the cord blood collected goes to help their research.
- Both options are free and voluntary. They can be life-saving, or life-changing (in that research helps us all!). Donating cord blood is also painless; neither the parent nor the baby are negatively affected by donating, but the health of them both obviously comes before the idea of collecting. It’s an incredibly important biological resource that is routinely discarded, so it’s amazing that we are able to use it towards something beneficial.
- Last year we collected on 17% of deliveries. This number doesn’t account for patients that wanted to donate, but may have had a precipitous delivery or developed an infection during their labor
For more information and contact information, check out www.umassmed.edu/research/cores/cord-blood

08/02/2019

Our bone Analysis Core is run by director Dr. Jae-Hyuck Shim. This core provides bone imaging services, bone histology, and histomorphometry services. Check out our cameras - Scanco CT35, Inveon IRW, and OsteoMetrics. www.umassmed.edu/research/cores/bonecore

Bone Core - Research Core Facility at UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA

07/26/2019

University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) will soon initiate a new in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinical program. This will provide the opportunity to utilize excess or discarded human gametes (oocytes and spermatozoa) and embryos, following appropriate patient consent, for evaluation of reproductive function and gamete/embryo development. The proposed core will collect, store, and supply these human samples to Basic Science and Clinical Researchers for critical research that has not previously been possible at UMMS. The initial evaluation of gametes and embryos, with storage in liquid nitrogen, will require funds as noted below. Once the initial samples are collected and stored, a modest charge for transportation and utilization will be established to maintain the core on an ongoing basis. A website on the UMMS Core Facilities page will be up and running soon!

07/12/2019

Mass spectrometry has become a paramount tool in biological, biomedical and clinical research to identify and quantify compounds within biological systems. Applications allow measurement of a wide range of endogenous biomolecules including peptides (peptidomics), proteins (proteomics), primary and secondary metabolites (metabolomics), lipids (lipidomics), nucleic acids, and carbohydrates (glycomics) from samples ranging single cells, fractionated organelles, cell lines, tissues or biofluids. This can be done in a “targeted” hypothesis driven manner or by an “untargeted” hypothesis generating approach. Exogenous compounds such as drugs and other xenobiotics can also be measured, often in the context of addressing preclinical or clinical questions in biodistribution, pharmacokinetics, and drug metabolism. In most cases, robust accurate and repeatable quantitative analyses are enabled and achieved through the use of stable-isotope labeling techniques. The UMMS Mass Spectrometry Facility provides a broad range of analytical assays that cover quantitative proteomics, protein analysis, metabolomics, lipidomics and mass spectrometry (tissue) imaging. The Facility supports seven mass spectrometry platforms for data acquisition and has extensive resources for sample preparation, data analysis, and informatics. The diverse expertise and experience among the Facility director and staff are leveraged to meet the needs of the internal collaborators and investigators at UMass, as well as other academic and industrial partners.
Check out the equipment that makes all this research possible from Mass. Spec. here --> www.umassmed.edu/MSF

The University of Massachusetts Medical School Mass Spectrometry Facility is a core resource offering state-of-the-art mass spectrometry for proteomics, metabolomics and mass spectrometry imaging.

07/11/2019

Meet "Sequel" of our PacBio Core. This instrument analyzes, in real-time, the sequence of single molecules 500bp to 30kb in length in a few hours. https://www.umassmed.edu/nemo/deep-sequencing-core-equipment/