UMassMed.eduThe state senate recently passed a $1 billion bill that could help the University of Massachusetts Medical School cure everything from cancer to diabetes.
The bill, which according to the Worcester Telegram ‘ Gazette allocates $500 million for infrastructure and new state research facilities, will allow for the new life science research center at UMass Medical.
“Our main goal is to utilize the funding through the life science initiatives to cost share a major program: the advanced therapeutics cluster,” said Dr. Gary Schneider, associate vice provost for research administration.
The center will house an RNAi institute, a stem cell facility and gene therapy facility.
The facilities will also continue the Nobel Prize winning work of UMass Medical professor Craig Mello.
Schneider said that the therapeutic targets of stem cell research are “almost universal in scope in terms of diseases that could be treated [
