Massachusetts Life Sciences Center announces $5M award to UMMS for Cryo-Electron Microscope

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center announced a $5 million grant to UMass Chan Medical School for the purchase of a high resolution cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM), bringing this breakthrough imaging technology to a campus poised to usher in the next generation of drug design and discovery. UMMS and Harvard Medical School have jointly committed operating funds to support the new Titan Krios microscope, which will be the centerpiece of the new cryo-EM research core, located on the UMMS main campus in Worcester. Read more...