2025 News
Thursday, December 11, 2025
December 2025 News and Publications
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Monday, December 08, 2025
UM School of Medicine's Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, Inducted as Member of Prestigious National Academy of Medicine
On October 18, 2025, Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, Director of University of Maryland – Medicine Institute for Neuroscience Discovery, James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Endowed Professor and distinguished university Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
November 2025 News and Publications
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Thursday, November 06, 2025
Distinguished Cancer Researcher Stuart S. Martin, PhD, Named Chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology at UM School of Medicine
Stuart S. Martin, PhD, an internationally recognized breast cancer researcher, has been appointed Chair of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, announced today. As the distinguished Drs. Angela and Harry Brodie Professor of Translational Cancer Research, Dr. Martin has served as Interim Chair of the Department over the past year. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC), one of 57 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the nation.
Thursday, October 09, 2025
October 2025 News and Publications
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Friday, September 12, 2025
September 2025 News and Publications
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Monday, July 14, 2025
UM School of Medicine Team Wins NIH TARGETED Challenge with Brain Genome Editing Technology
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) recently won a $250,000 prize from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve technologies for delivering genome editing tools to targeted cells in the body. They were one of four winners in a competition after successfully demonstrating a new technique to deliver genome editing biotechnology across the blood-brain barrier to brain cells in preclinical models.
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Bolni Nagalo, PhD, Appointed Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at UMSOM
Welcome Bolni Nagalo, PhD to the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC)
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
UM School of Medicine Confocal Core Facility Offers Super-Resolution Microscopy to Enhance Imaging of Subcellular Structures
The UMSOM Confocal Microscopy Core facility is now offering researchers access to a state-of-the-art STED microscope that provides super-resolution imaging capabilities. It is the latest addition of an Abberior Facility Line STED microscope.
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
Wei Li, PhD, Appointed Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at UMSOM
Dr. Li is an expert in computational biology and CRISPR-mediated gene editing who comes to UMSOM from George Washington University.
Friday, May 16, 2025
17th Annual Maryland Half Marathon & 5K
Inside the Lab Where Baltimore Researchers Are Fighting Cancer—And Winning
Monday, May 12, 2025
UMGCCC Researchers Share New Findings on Link Between Lifetime Alcohol Use and Colorectal Cancer and More at AACR 2025
University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC) researchers, who are on faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, presented findings at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago last month.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
February 2025 News and Publications
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