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Graduating PhD candidates in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School were celebrated during an awards ceremony on May 28.

Nursing PhD student William Mar, PhD candidate Humberto Ochoa and MD/MBA student Suhas Suddala will represent their respective peers at UMass Chan’s 2026 Commencement.

The classic science fair format was flipped at UMass Chan as Worcester high school students judged research posters by graduate students and postdocs.

Top story: The visit included a tour of the new Paul J. DiMare Center and a closed-door meeting with UMass Chan faculty members.

During the annual Recognition Ceremony, the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences celebrated 74 PhD candidates and MD/PhD students who successfully completed their qualifying exam in 2024-2025.

Nobel laureate Victor R. Ambros, PhD, has been named TIME100 Health, a list recognizing the100 most influential people in health.

The visit included a tour of the new Paul J. DiMare Center and a closed-door meeting with UMass Chan faculty members.

UMass Chan and the entire UMass ecosystem are poised for further breakthrough advances in biomedical research, university leaders and congressional delegation members tell ARPA-H director at Medical School visit.  

Victor Ambros, PhD, shared his gratitude to his wife and collaborator, Rosalind “Candy” Lee, as well as to the Medical School and scientific community, at a celebration of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine he co-received with Gary Ruvkun, PhD, professor at Harvard Medical School, for their discovery of microRNA.  

The UMass Chan Medical School community embraced its newest Nobel Laureate on Monday, Oct. 7, after Victor Ambros, PhD, was named the co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of microRNA. See how the day unfolded in this video.