NEWS2010 Amarantus MA announces collaboration with Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute. » Read the Amarantus press release» Seahorse Biosciences, a PVLSI collaborator, grows through MA expansion. » Download more» Amarantus Therapeutics announces appointment of Lawrence M. Schwartz, Ph.D. to their Scientific Advisory Board. » Read the Amarantus press release» The Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute announces that a signigicant expansion of its Springfield-based research laboratory has begun. Download more » The Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute announces that Marcia Dougan Woods, MPH has joined the Institute as its business development manager. Download more » Seahorse Bioscience and the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute are working together to validate a novel technology developed by Seahorse Bioscience to measure the CO2 production rates of cells. Download more » 2009 PVLSI principal investigator Neil Forbes of the University of Massachusetts Amherst confirms successfully detonating tumor-killer drug in cancers on command. Go to the Tumor Therapeutic and Bioengineering Laboratory» Read the UMass Amherst press release» Download the Science Daily article» Rays of Hope supports research at PVLSI. See more » Massachusetts Life Sciences Center's Internship Challenge matches interns with research institutions and life sciences companies, including a UMass Amherst senior hosted by PVLSI. Download more » Keith M. Parent, chief executive officer of Court Square Group, is joining the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute Board of Directors. He is the Institute's first outside director. Download more » D. Joseph Jerry, director of PVLSI's Breast Cancer Working Group is the chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Mammary Gland Biology (June 14-19, 2009). Read more » BEACON's Pfizer Seminar Series continues with a presentation by Dr. Yusuf Khan about the field of Regenerative Engineering. Download more » Avon Walk Boston Ceremony Highlights Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute and UMass Amherst Research Projects. UMass Amherst professor of Veterinary and Animal Science, Dr. D. Joseph Jerry, and Dr. Sallie Smith Schneider, both research scientists at the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute (PVLSI), received funding of $157,475. Read more »» Springfield receives the highest possible rating in a recent survey by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. Read more » PVLSI is planning incubator space for life science businesses and is nationally recognized for its work in noncancerous breast tissue testing. Read more » The recent $1 billion biotech bill is expected to accelerate the growth of biotechnology in the state through funding programs that will help develop products and create jobs over the next 10 years. Read more » Massachusetts' $1 billion life sciences initiative is aimed at making it the global epicenter for life sciences research and business. The 10-year initiative includes $5.5 million for a business incubator for life science companies at the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute. Read more » Lawrence M. Schwartz, the Institute's science director, and Susan Windham-Bannister, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, anticipate policy changes on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Read more » 2008 PVLSI hosted leaders from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council at a meeting in the Institute's expansion space. Read more » Nagendra Yadava, Ph.D. has joined PVLSI's staff of principal investigators and its Center of Excellence in Apoptosis Research (CEAR). His work on mitochondrial dysfunction provided insights into a number of disorders including brain cell death in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and other age-associated diseases, particularly diabetes. Download more » Dr. Rong Shao has received a grant for his breast cancer research from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of health (NIH). The grant, entitled "Role of a novel angiogenic factor, YKL-40, in breast cancer progression," provides $1.1 million over 5 years. Download more » U.S. Representative Richard Neal visits PVLSI to announce an additional $1.6 million in federal funding for the Institute. Read more. PVLSI principal investigator Neil Forbes of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to research killing cancer tumors with Salmonella bacteria. Read more » Learn more about the PVLSI from Dr. Paul Friedmann and Dr. Lawrence M. Schwartz on TechCast at UMass #2. Read more » 2007 PVLSI was a featured stop on Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Dan O'Connell's October 24 trip to Springfield. The visit was part of the Secretary's state-wide tour to highlight the Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative. Read more » Alan Schneyer, Ph.D., distinguished scientist at the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute (PVLSI), has been awarded a research grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant, entitled "Physiologic Roles of Activin and Myostatin Antagonists", provides Dr. Schneyer with $737,000. Download more » The Center of Excellence in Apoptosis Research (CEAR) interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellows program has awarded a grant to University of Massachusetts Amherst professors Todd Emrick, Polymer Science and Engineering, and Priscilla Clarkson, Kinesiology. Download more » Two teams of University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists have been awarded the first Center of Excellence in Apoptosis Research (CEAR) pilot grants. The program provides up to $25,000 per proposal to support development of new ideas with the potential to attract significant external funding as well as projects that extend research results toward commercial biomedical applications. Download more » Alan Schneyer, Ph.D. has joined the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute (PVLSI) at the rank of distinguished scientist. Dr. Schneyer's research concerns the reproductive and metabolic roles of follistatin (FST) and follistatin like-3 (FSTL3) proteins. Download more » UMass Amherst/PVLSI Researcher Identifies New Class of Genes That Play a Role in Breast Cancer Risk. Read more » Symposium Explores Causes and Treatments of Diseases like Alzheimer's. Read more » 2006 MTC John Adams Innovation Institute and the PVLSI announce the Center of Excellence in Apoptosis Research. Read the UMass Amherst press release» Dr. Jerry to be honored at breast cancer symposium. Read more » Biomedical Research Models Inc. receives T-1 RAID contract from NIDDK. Download more » Conference focuses on cellular engineering research. Read more » |
