Hudson Hoagland Society
The Hudson Hoagland Society (HHS) is the leadership giving group of individuals who support biomedical research at UMass Chan Medical School with cumulative gifts of $1,000 or more to our Annual Research Fund within a fiscal year (July to June).
Philanthropy is as important to medical discovery as are the countless hours researchers spend in their labs. You can play a role in advancing toward a world free of disease.
Join HHS
Hudson Hoagland Society membership levels
Founder - $10,000 or more
Partner - $5,000 to $9,999
Patron - $2,500 to $4,999
Benefactor - $1,000 to $2,499
Friend - $500 to $999
HHS was originally founded in 1985 to recognize major annual contributors to the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research. Named in honor of the Worcester Foundation's co-founder, the Society brings together individuals who share a commitment to advancing biomedical research. Founded in 1985 as an independent research institute by Drs. Hudson Hoagland and Gregory Pincus, the Worcester Foundation merged with UMass Chan Medical School in 1997.
Funds raised through the Hudson Hoagland Society are now used to support the most promising and innovative research at UMass Chan Medical School. These "seed" grants are awarded based on a competitive review process and allow a researcher to pursue new, innovative research for which he or she may not yet have funding.
For more information, please contact:
Sierra Trudel
Director, Annual Funds
Sierra.Trudel@umassmed.edu
508-856-5540
2024 Worcester Foundation grant recipients
Supported by gifts to the Hudson Hoagland Society
Raquel Binder, PhD, MPH
Department of Medicine
“Zoonotic Coronavirus Transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
Elliot Edmiston, PhD
The Bassick Family Foundation Award
Department of Psychiatry
“Neural Correlates of Interoceptive Accuracy and Developmental Risk for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders During Puberty”
Michael Francis, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
“Defining the impacts of aging and disease on the postsynaptic proteome”
Paul Kaufman, PhD
Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
“Nuclear body formation during pro-inflammatory macrophage differentiation”