MA Runs on

RESEARCH

We are Massachusetts researchers coming together in support of the DRIVE Act proposed by Governor Healey, which would address an ongoing need for a stable source of funding to address the gap created by national-level cuts. The Act would advance scientific discovery, protect life-saving research, and promote economic resilience by disbursing state-level funding to institutions of public research and higher education across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

During the Trump administration, federal funding for science has faced relentless attacks and instability. These attacks have forced talented and dedicated researchers across the state to leave the Commonwealth or the U.S. entirely in search of stable employment and funding. Labs are being forced to downsize and close continuously at universities across the state and projects are being abandoned after years of investment. The impact of these attacks are being felt throughout higher education and the broader research community. It is clear that for innovative research to continue to thrive in Massachusetts, we cannot depend on the federal administration’s capricious funding decisions.

Massachusetts is a leading hub for scientific innovation with over 350,000 residents employed in STEM fields at institutions and industries across the state performing ground-breaking science, developing new treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and countless other disorders; creating breakthroughs in renewable energy; and training the next generation of scientists. It was this remarkable research environment that produced one of the first COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic, saving millions of lives across the world. Under the new research priorities set by the Trump administration, these kinds of life-saving innovations are no longer even being considered for funding.

The research enterprise across Massachusetts not only produces life-changing innovations but also undergirds the state’s economy and tax base. For every dollar invested in Massachusetts research, the state receives an economic benefit of double that amount. The DRIVE Act will lead to job creation at universities, continued advancements spanning academia and industry, as well as the recruitment, retention and development of early-career scientists. Without this added investment, Massachusetts risks losing its status as the preeminent leader in scientific research, and falling behind California, Texas, and New York–all of which have taken active steps to provide state-level support for this important work.

It is imperative that funding from the DRIVE Act reaches our scientific institutions urgently to halt the erosion of our vital research infrastructure. This proposal provides an opportunity not only to affirm Massachusetts’ leadership in scientific research but also to pioneer new approaches to funding mechanisms that spur more innovations to improve the lives of the people of Massachusetts and around the world. Therefore, we strongly endorse the DRIVE Act and urge its prompt passing.

We, the undersigned members of the research community, write to register our strong support for the urgent passage of the DRIVE Act proposed by Governor Healey, and look forward to Massachusetts continuing to lead in scientific research and innovation.

Charles Williamson, UMass Amherst Graduate student, College Natural Sciences, Stockbridge, Plant and Soil Sciences

Isabel Honzay, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Economics

Brianna Dominguez, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Genomics and Computational Biology

Arjamand Mushtaq, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Program in Molecular Medicine

Abigail Hiller, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Christi Silva, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Ashlyn Oh, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Aanya Bahl, Columbia University Graduate student, Epidemiology

Xinyue Xia, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Katherine Edwards, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Program in Molecular Medicine

Lauren Majors, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Jonathan Jung, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurology

Khusali Gupta, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Neurology

Raymond Furgal, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Danielle Kutner, Villanova / UAW 2322 Graduate student, Philosophy

Anusha Devi Doddi, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Neurology

Manisha Kunala, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Laurel Stine, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Duy Hoang, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Valentina Paskar, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Communications

Raydaliz Cancel, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Elizabeth Deatrick, UMass Boston Staff, Communications

Isaac Pliskin, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Physics/Mathematics

Alyssa Funk, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genomics and Computational Biology

Jana Pickart, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies

Alana Lue Chee Lip, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, RNA Therapeutics

Maeve O'Rielly, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Matt Yee, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Ethan Chang, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Ines Urquizo Velasco, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Colleen Frank, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Medicine

Paula Vo, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Pyae Phyo Kyawe, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Dermatology

Joyce Li, UMass Chan Medical School Research Scientist, Medicine

Sarah Allen, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Udbhav Chitta, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Pathology

Carolyn Kraus, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Samuel Lerner, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Program in Molecular Medicine

Danielle Ferdinand, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Microbiology

Akshay Alaghatta, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Eli Min, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Peter Vancini, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Romana Rachid, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Medicine

Kelly Cochran, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Craig Brinkman, Wellesley College Faculty, Psychology

David Pritchard, UAW Local 2322 union representative,

Jada Ormsbee, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Ruixuan Xiao, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

An Vo, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Matt Winters, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Regine Adrien, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Economics

Dimas Echeverria, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, RNA Therapeutics

Tran Tran, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Lauren Majors, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Immunology and microbiology

Rachel Walker, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Chaitanya Parikh, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Corinne Asselin, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, RNA Therapeutics

Nicola Minchell, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Systems Biology

Brittany Rosener, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Systems Biology

Anna Derby, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Economics

Katherine Blair,  Attorney,

Poulami Ghosh, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Microbiology

Ziyuan Huang, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Emergency Medicine

William Martenis, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Department of Medicine

Jennifer Broderick, UMass Chan Medical School Instructor, RNA Therapeutics

Issa Yusuf, UMass Chan Medical School Senior Research Scientist, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Amelie Kelly, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Dasvit Shetty, Boston Children’s Hospital Postdoctoral researcher, Urology

Sintra Reves-Sohn, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Amina Bradley, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Systems Biology

Matthew Belden, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Suganya Veerasamy, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Diabetes Center of Excellence

Anu Atukuri, UMass Chan Medical School Coordinator, Dermatology

Lisa Newman, Wellesley College Senior Software Engineer, Library and Technology Services

Kensei Kishimoto, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Jillian Gallagher, UMass Chan Medical School Staff scientist, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Tobias Gustafsson, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Xunear Zhou, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Melissa Rymaszewski, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Department of earth, geographic, and climate sciences

Isabella Pereira-Tosado, UMass Chan Medical School PREP Scholar, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Humberto Ochoa, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Alejandro Felix Mejia, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Sabrina Hallal, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Neurobiology

Amelia Sadlon, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Systems Biology

Thomas Walter, UMass Amherst Research assistant, Economics

Katelyn Lombardo, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, RNA Therapeutics

Linnea Budge, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Maria Predtechenskaya, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Carmen Li, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Systems Biology

Sookyung Kim, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Daniel Rinner, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Economics

Run Sun, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Julia Hobaugh, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Wes Marshall, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Medicine

Keyi Chen, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Communication

Jesse Lehman, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Catherine Castonguay, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Neurology

Eli Sennesh,  Postdoctoral researcher,

Motahareh Arjomandnejad, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Omar Rachid, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Anis Barati, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Lauren Clark, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Dylan Shuster, UMass Lowell Graduate student, Chemistry

Cintia Horta, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Aurelia Reynolds, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Johnny Lucas, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Aaron Chevalier, Mercy Bioanalytics Scientist, Computational biology

Sumaira Perez, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Systems Biology

Hayley Wigren, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, RNA Therapeutics

Boris Dimitrov, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Wednesday Bushong, Wellesley College Faculty, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences

Amy Mertl, Wellesley College Faculty, Biology

Ana Wenc, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Systems Biology

Babatunde Olusola, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular Medicine

Emily Gossett, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Martina Koniger, Wellesley College Faculty, Biological Sciences

Kylie Paul, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Chemistry

Xinyue Wang, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Microbiology

Nicole Shedd, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Genomics and Computational Biology

Lihan Chan, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Plant Biology

Courtney Price, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Systems Biology

Rebecca Zolla, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences

Noah Fleischer, UMass Amherst Research assistant, Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences

Stephanie Atherton, UMass Lowell Research assistant, Mathematics and Statistics

Samuel Liu, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Alvaro Castro Rivadeneira, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Epidemiology

Erin Reilly,  ,

John Holik, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Genomics and Computational Biology

Maya Chan, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, RNA Therapeutics

Olivia Heintz, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Aubrey Armbruster, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Communication

Josh Velasco, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Oscar Lam, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Diana Fajardo Palomino, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Haijing Jing, UMass Amherst Graduate student, TECS

Elisabet Mandon, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, RNA Therapeutics

Grace Schiefelbein, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Katie Nickles, Wellesley College Faculty, Biology

Sara Keane, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics Institute

Asli Ertekin, UMass Chan Medical School Research Scientist, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Elizabeth Kolln, Boston Children’s Hospital Research assistant, Developmental Medicine

Paulina Chen, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Program in Molecular Medicine

Sophia Normark, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Economics

Basil Allen, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Yi-Hsuan Hsieh, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Shukla Sarkar, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Medicine

Ken Yamada, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, RNA Therapeutics

Hailey McKillop, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neuroscience

Michelle Ciccone, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Communication

Alejandro Vasquez Rifo, UMass Chan Medical School Instructor, Program in Molecular Medicine

Theresa Ramalho, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Panagiotis Velentzas, UMass Chan Medical School Instructor, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Nathan MacGilvary, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Rebekka Anderson, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Navid Ghazi, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Neurobiology

Naoe Watanab, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Neurobiology

Erica Katz, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Dermatology

Sarukkalige DeSilva, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Julia Flynn, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Pablo Bora, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Minoh Lim, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Sean Thackeray, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, RNA Therapeutics

Vijayalalitha Ramanarayanan, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Darcy Reil, UMass Chan Medical School Research Scientist, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Brianna Wachter, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Alexandre Dinis, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Adrian Martin Esteban, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Pathology

Ye Liu, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Mostafa Elfawal, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Molecular Medicine

Dylan Doxsey, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Avijit Mallick, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Sarah Bodansky, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Astronomy

Jane Vonguirath, UMass Chan Medical School Research Coordinator, Dermatology

Iris Zhan They/Them, Wellesley College Undergrad, Economics

Suna Jung, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Program in Molecular Medicine

Sarah Blossom, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Nathan Gioacchini, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Bao Ho, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Phyllis McGibbo, Wellesley College Faculty, Art

Charlotte Reames, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Microbiology

Min Li, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Joshua Foster, UMass Amherst Postdoctoral researcher, Chemistry

Meaghan Perdue, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Psychiatry

Anna Aristarkhova, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Duy Hoang, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular Medicine

Parvaneh Bahrami, UMass Lowell Graduate student, Business Administration

Aijaz Bhat, UMass Chan Medical School Staff scientist, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Azaylah DaSilva, Arizona State University Undergrad, Speech Pathology

Nnaeme Ukabiala, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Christa Skow, Wellesley College Faculty, Biological Sciences

Pei-Lun Kao, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Yongwoo Jun, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Oliver Daniels, UMass Amherst Research assistant, Computer Science

Trang Ho, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Benedikt Mortzfeld, UMass Chan Medical School Instructor, Microbiology

Connor Hay, TBFighters ,

Milky Abajorga, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program of Molecular Medicine

Jennifer Powers, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Andrew Wei, Mclean Hospital Research assistant, Center for Depression Anxiety and Stress Research

Vishali Vmaiyalan, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Medicine

Octavio Gonzalez, Wellesley College Faculty, English

Elizabeth Kahuno, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Neurobiology

Alvina Deka, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Pathology

Ravi Bharadwaj, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Medicine

Eric Larsen, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurology

Denis Susorov, UMass Chan Medical School Bioinformatician, RNA Therapeutics

Sandhiya Ravi, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic and cellular medicine

Samara Vilca, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Psychiatry

Hannah Hendrickson, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Plant Biology

Michael Cheung, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Debora Pires Ferreira, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Alex Crits-Christoph, Cultivarium Staff scientist, Microbiology

Stephanie Ridley, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Charles Specht, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Medicine

Kha Dam, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurosurgery

Jennifer Morgan, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Katie Hall, Wellesley College Faculty, Physics

Mengjia Lu, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Hira Goel, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Jida Huang, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Program in Molecular Medicine

Shupei Yu, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Mary Likhite, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Genomics and Computational Biology

Benjamin Clayton, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Interdisciplinary graduate program

Fei Chai, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Sabriya Fisher, Wellesley College Faculty, Linguistics

Shalini Aricthota, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular Medicine

Sam Hildebrand, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Daniel Rourke, UMass Lowell Graduate student, Renewable Energy Engineering

Dan Ollendorf, Tufts University Faculty, School of Medicine

Qinglan Ling, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Emma Vanderleeden, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Diabetes Center of Excellence

Anthony Sciaudone, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Sarah Wilne, University of Rhode Island Graduate student, Oceanography

Arooma Maryam, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Zixuan Ye, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Molly Persky, Massachusetts General Hospital Lab technician, Mass. Eye and Ear

Boyang Ma, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Curtis Swope, Wellesley College Faculty, German

Nikhi Chopra, MSC, Oxford University Graduate student,

Tyler DeShong, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences

Jeeritha Thanikasalam, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Medicine

Julia Hanssen, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Diabetes Center of Excellence

Samantha Vantine, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Tenzin Tseyang, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student,

Margaret Huston, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Carolyn Kraus, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Sneha Shah, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Program in Molecular Medicine

Catherine Forconi, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, Medicine

Nhi Tran, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Jonathan Valeros, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Jiali Shen, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Microbiology

Hannah Rogers, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Brady Dye, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Economics

Mushi Li, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Dermatology

Pankti Gosar, UMass Chan Medical School Bioinformatician, Neurology

Johan Girgenrath, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Carolyn Senneca, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Dermatology

Kingsley Essien, UMass Chan Medical School Investigator, Dermatology

Chris Arumainayagam, Wellesley College Faculty, Chemistry

Weronika Sokotowska, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Jennifer Carr, Wellesley College Faculty, French & Francophone Studies

Joseph Paquette, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Matthew Funk, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Genomics and Computational Biology

Seyoun Kim, UMass Amherst Postdoctoral researcher, Health Promotion and Policy

Ilina Ivanova, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular Medicine

Banu Subramaniam, Wellesley College Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies

Michelle Conti, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Systems Biology

Haik Varderesian, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Megan Fowler, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurology

Sarah Mirza, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences

Mariana Noto Guillen, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Systems Biology

Lin Han, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Florentina Rus, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular Medicine

Abigail Zeamer-Bonfetti, UMass Chan Medical School Bioinformatician, Microbiology

Jack Cooper, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Arkadyuti Bhattacharjee, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Tathagata Nandi, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Microbiology

Sara Gia Trongone, UMass Amherst Postdoctoral researcher, Sociology

Noah Sciambra, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Samuel Kingsley, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Warisha Faiz, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Moneca Kaul, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Karthika Nagalekshmi, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Program in Molecular Medicine

Ivano Mocavini, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Pat Sheehan, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Neurobiology

ZIhan Rao, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Elizabeth Oakes, Wellesley College Faculty, Chemistry

Erin Teich, Wellesley College Faculty, Physics and Astronomy

Siyuan Dai, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Victoria Votaw, Mclean Hospital Instructor, Department of Psychiatry/Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction

Reetika Gaikwad, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Medicine

Rachel Cunningham, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Alexandra Jerrett, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Emily Blackburn, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Sara Keane, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Debra Cameron, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Neurology

Seonghyeon Hong, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Laura Orellano, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Pathology

Lainie Brice, Wellesley College Faculty, Biology

Shalini Aricthota, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular Medicine

Michael Lero, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Cancer Biology

Kalpana Acharya, Wellesley College Faculty, Biological Sciences

Yuanwei Cheng, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Dattu Prajapati,  Research Lab Technician,

Catia Cecilia Confortini, Wellesley College Faculty, Peace and Justice Studies

Hailey Elson, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Geosciences

Evan Hass, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Lydia Proskauer, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Ashley O'Donnell, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Hannah Mastus, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Neurobiology

Nicolai Hathiramani, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Jafira Johnson, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Emma Austen-Holt, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, MD-PhD

Gillian Sinnott, Wellesley College Instructor, Writing Program

Jacob Eisenberg, UMass Chan Medical School Resident or intern, Neurology

Vidyasagar Bukke, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Dermatology

Matthew Pollard, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genomics and Computational Biology

Massissilia Hamadouche, UMass Amherst Postdoctoral researcher, Astronomy

Faith Keller, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Department of Systems Biology

Paulina Chen, UMass Chan Medical School Associate Researcher, Molecular Medicine

Gabrielle Giese, UMass Chan Medical School Senior Scientist, Systems Biology

Ann Xu, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Systems Biology

Jagroop Kaur, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Kathleen Desevin, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Shady Lawendy, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Economics

Matt Fanelli, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Psychiatry

Sydney Schock, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Department of Systems Biology

Erin Battat, Wellesley College Faculty, Writing

Fariba Houman, Boston Children’s Hospital Administrator,

Genevieve Daftary, Codman Square Health Center Physician, Pediatrics

Shawn Gilles, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Graduate student, Computer Science

Marina Krykbaeva, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Grace Yang, Brandeis University Undergrad, Biology

Lucas Prescott, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Megan Whiddon, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Plant Biology

James Owens, UMass Amherst Doctoral graduate, teacher of record former, Communication

Thomas Ormsby, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Krishna Anand, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Daniel Bollen, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Infectious Diseases

Sophia Esteves, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Helen Magana, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Ramakrishna Kandi, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Biology

Zachary Racenet, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Leah Whiteman, UMass Chan Medical School Senior Research Scientist, Medicine

Zane Cleghorn, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Mara Laslo, Wellesley College Faculty, Biological Sciences

Abigail Allworth, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular Medicine

Adina MacMahon Copas, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Neurology

Lisa Mogolov, Wellesley College Editor, Alumnae Relations

Chandani Shrestha, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Innate Immunity

Li-Chi Chen, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Dermatology

Joseph Golec, UMass Amherst Postdoctoral researcher, Astronomy

Markella Rutherford, Wellesley College Faculty, Department of Sociology

Samirul Bashir, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Ellen Williams, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies

Sungwoo Hwang, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Lauren Intravaia, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Ji Cheng, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Kennedy O'Hara, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurology

Cole Desrosiers, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Meghan Brassil, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Linus Sievers Perkins, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Melissa Beers, Wellesley College Faculty, Biological Sciences

Priscilla Romano, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Dermatology

Jenna Whalen, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Will Cruz, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Nick Iftimia, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Neurosurgery

Janneke Icso, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Sharon Noronha, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Regina Whitehead, UMass Chan Medical School Staff, Neurobiology

Tracy Gleason, Wellesley College Faculty, Psychology

Joseph Edmonds, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Hitha Nair, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Ronald Renda, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Leonard Schaerfen, UMass Chan Medical School Faculty, RNA Therapeutics

Halina Saydam, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Plant & Soil Science

Jaylah Cormier, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Rahul Nisal, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Orthopedics

Daniel Barnes, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Alexandra Lee, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Rishabh Parmar, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Kimberly Crowley, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Program in Molecular Medicine

Takao Ishidate, UMass Chan Medical School Staff scientist, RNA Therapeutics

Isabelle Loop, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, RNA Therapeutics

Brooklyn Regan, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Aubree Jones, Wellesley College Faculty, Biological Sciences

Michael Mavros, Wellesley College Faculty, Chemistry

Manu Ahmed, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Pediatrics

Nicholas Gaston, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Odette Verdejo, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Arev Kaligian, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

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Joshua Pajak, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Mridushi Daga, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Kaito Hioki, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Kylie Sumner, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Department of Medicine

Essi Yayra Ines Tchalla, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Microbiology

Benjamin Toles, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Shaun Ghosh, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Clint McDaniel, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Stephen Larson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Graduate student, Biomedical Engineering

Claudia Perez, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Department of Systems Biology

Neil Gehring, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Environmental Conservation

Sylvester Kaminta, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, DMB

Ebru Kaymak, UMass Chan Medical School Staff scientist, RNA Therapeutics

Sam Chigas, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Wendy Tan, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Karol Rojas, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Sydney Fischer, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Pediatrics

Gopinath Krishnan, UMass Chan Medical School Staff scientist, RNA Therapeutics

Daniel MacVeigh-Fierro, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Shoshana Daly, Tufts University Undergrad, Biology

Bradley Class, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Masa Ohara, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Heather Learnard, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Alexander Ayanian, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Stockbridge School of Agriculture

Katherine Kruckow, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Pathology

Michael Anthony-Card, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Delaney Giguere, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Ophthalmology

Shaoxian Li, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Jillian Johnson, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Vinuselvi Parisutham, UMass Chan Medical School Research Specialist, Systems Biology

Christopher Jahns, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Diana Carlson, UMass Chan Medical School Lab Manager, Medicine

David Cooper, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Youwei Qiao, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Kaitlyn Tsuyuki, Wellesley College Lab technician, Chemistry

Pavan Rao, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Elizabeth Crowley, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Meghan Blackwood, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Elizabeth Krontiris, Wellesley College Faculty, Writing

Leah Travis-Taylor, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Rakeyah Ahsan, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Madison Jerome, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Program in Molecular Medicine

Bryce Raymond, Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab Scientist, DNA

Pooja Parameswaran, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Medicine

Elizabeth Johnson, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Microbiology

Barassa Leonard, UMass Chan Medical School , Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Nils Grotehans, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Program in Molecular Medicine

Christable Darko, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Katherine Murphy, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Julie Huang, Harvard University Research Administrator, Medical School

Helene Bilis, Wellesley College Faculty, French and Francophone Studies

Daniel Richards, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and molecular biotechnology

Oluwafemi Akomolafe, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Physics

Mayashree Das, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Microbiology

Kylie Arnold, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics Institute

Isaiah Farrow, Sales

Nicholas Hayden, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Pathology

Emma Galbraith, University of New Hampshire Undergrad, Computer Science

Chris Dahlke, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Samantha Berek, UMass Amherst Postdoctoral researcher, Astronomy

Shuhao Wang, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, RNA Therapeutics

Gabriella Kastrunes, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurosurgery

Michelle Narvaez, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Systems Biology

Leo DeOrsey, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Poonam Mehta, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Jeff Gerber, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Physics

Katharine Cecchini, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, RNA Therapeutics

Lawrence Rosenwald, Wellesley College Professor Emeritus, English

Ollie Donald, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Geosciences

Alejandra Rivera, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Program in Molecular Medicine

Thomas Rossetti, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

Jillian Franks, Brandeis University Graduate student, Psychology

Timothy Havel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Retired Researcher,

Dylan Hickey, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Microbiology

Hoang` Tran, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology

Eric Kercher, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Mengyao Xu, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Emily Norman, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Katherine Gross, Yale Graduate student, School of Medicine

Rebecca Panwala, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Sara Cahill, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Leah Crowley, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, Program in Molecular Medicine

Ezequiel Calvo, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Fiona Bennitt, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Civil and Environmental Engineering

MK Jutze, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Polymer Science & Engineering

Tyler Poisson, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Communication

Hillary Hoyt, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Gene and Cell Therapy

Simon Connolly, UMass Amherst Undergraduate, Physics

Maria Twardy, Wellesley College Faculty, Spanish & Portuguese

Aaron Wheeler, UMass Chan Medical School Lab technician, RNA Therapeutics

Nick Bolden, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Nina Fernandes, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Epidemiology

Alok Tiwary, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Fatima Tleiss, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Medicine

Asifa Khan, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Patrick Heng, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Lorena Romalho, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Medicine

Brent Horowitz, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Michael Jameson, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Medicine

Gabriela Nicholson, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurobiology

Lily Bigelow, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Neurosurgery

Fateme Rajabi, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Dermatology

Daniel Durning, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Jinyue Luo, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

Emily Knox, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, RNA Therapeutics

Jisun Lee, UMass Chan Medical School Research assistant, Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Cole Pero, UMass Chan Medical School Graduate student, RNA Therapeutics

Pradeep Gautam, UMass Chan Medical School Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology

Pace Knowles-Donnelly, UMass Amherst Graduate student, Public Health