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29-465: UMMS is an initialism, it may stand for:- University of Massachusetts Medical School University of Maryland Medical System University of Michigan Medical School Minsk International Airport - ICAO code UMMS Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title UMMS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

58-596: A 371-bed hospital opened on campus; the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences opened in 1979, and the Graduate School of Nursing opened in 1986. In 1998 the UMMS system of hospitals and clinics merged with Memorial Health Care to form UMass Memorial Health Care , the largest health-care provider in Central Massachusetts and clinical partner of UMMS. In 2021 an unrestricted $ 175 million gift from

87-535: A combination of the number of endorsements and the prestige of the works publishing them. Adopting this view, the SJR indicator assigns different values to citations depending on the perceived prestige of the journals where they come from. However, studies of methodological quality and reliability have found that "reliability of published research works in several fields may be decreasing with increasing journal rank", contrary to widespread expectations. The calculation of

116-499: A high number of graduates practice throughout the state. UMass Medical is also accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education . The Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) is a PhD-granting program that trains scientists in a specialty area with a broad background in the basic medical sciences in preparation for conducting research with direct relevance to human disease. According to

145-514: A national reputation for its primary-care program and consistently ranks in the top 10 percent of schools in the annual U.S. News & World Report guide, "America’s Best Graduate Schools". SCImago Journal Rank listed the university at No. 74 in the US and No. 248 globally. Over half of each graduating class enters primary-care residencies, a trend underscoring the school's founding mission, though that figure has decreased in recent years. In addition,

174-557: A nursing master's, post-master's or doctoral degree from the school. The GSN prepares professional and advanced practice nurses , nurse scientists and educators as leaders in nursing and health-care delivery to diverse populations through education, research, practice and service (according to the GSN website). UMMS researchers have made advances in a broad range of disease families, from HIV and infectious diseases to cancer, genetic disorders, diabetes and immune disease. UMMS faculty discovered

203-439: A steady-state solution is reached. The SJR algorithm begins by setting an identical amount of prestige to each journal, then using an iterative procedure, this prestige is redistributed in a process where journals transfer their achieved prestige to each other through citations. The process ends up when the difference between journal prestige values in consecutive iterations do not reach a minimum threshold value any more. The process

232-744: Is a public medical school in Worcester, Massachusetts . It is part of the University of Massachusetts system. It consists of three schools: the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. The school also operates a biomedical research enterprise and a range of public-service initiatives throughout the state. The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS)

261-456: Is a multibillion-dollar health-care system consisting of acute-care hospitals, ambulatory clinics and a network of primary care physicians and specialists throughout central Massachusetts . With approximately 13,000 employees (including 1,500 physicians), UMMHC is the largest health-care provider in central Massachusetts. Its flagship hospital (UMass Memorial Medical Center) straddles two campuses along Route 9 in Worcester, Massachusetts and

290-413: Is a size-independent indicator and its values order journals by their "average prestige per article" and can be used for journal comparisons in science evaluation processes. The SJR indicator is a free journal metric inspired by, and using an algorithm similar to, PageRank . The SJR indicator computation is carried out using an iterative algorithm that distributes prestige values among the journals until

319-756: Is designated by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center . Its largest publicly funded affiliate in the field of cancer research is the Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC), located in Lincoln, Rhode Island . Supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), QARC receives radiotherapy data from around 1,000 hospitals in

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348-536: Is developed by the Scimago Lab, originated from a research group at the University of Granada . The SJR indicator is a variant of the eigenvector centrality measure used in network theory. Such measures establish the importance of a node in a network based on the principle that connections to high-scoring nodes contribute more to the score of the node. The SJR indicator has been developed to be used in extremely large and heterogeneous journal citation networks. It

377-453: Is developed in two phases, (a) the computation of Prestige SJR ( PSJR ) for each journal: a size-dependent measure that reflects the whole journal prestige, and (b) the normalization of this measure to achieve a size-independent measure of prestige, the SJR indicator . In addition to the network-based SJR indicator, the SJR also provides a more direct alternative to the impact factor (IF), in

406-659: Is the only publicly owned, non-profit FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccine and other biologic products in the United States. First established in 1894, the University of Massachusetts Biologic Laboratory was re-established in 1997 by the Massachusetts legislature, and oversight was transferred from the Department of Public Health to UMMS. In recent years, MassBiologics has been called upon to respond to

435-745: Is the state's leading source of biomedical information for inter‑library loan. The only public medical library in the state, it is the regional medical library for New England and one of eight regional libraries comprising the National Library of Medicine. To support the more than 260 investigators working on advancements in the treatment of disease and injury, the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building (a 360,000-square-foot (33,000 m ) research facility) opened in October 2001. The 10-story structure, named for

464-664: The SJR indicator is similar to the Eigenfactor score , with the former being based on the Scopus database and the latter on the Web of Science database, and there are other differences. A journal's SJR indicator is a numeric value representing the average number of weighted citations received during a selected year per document published in that journal during the previous three years, as indexed by Scopus . Higher SJR indicator values are meant to indicate greater journal prestige. SJR

493-849: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham and the New England Newborn Screening Program and Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories in Jamaica Plain and Mattapan. See also: Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts SCImago Journal Rank SCImago is not an acronym , although the capitalization of first 3 letters do stand for SCientific Influence. The suffix "mago" appears to be randomly chosen. Citations are an indicator of popularity of scientific works and can be perceived as endorsement; prestige can be understood as

522-486: The GSBS website, the school offers students a multidisciplinary program of study, in which they have freedom of choice in curriculum and in the selection of mentors for their graduate-thesis research. Since the first class of seven students enrolled in 1979, more than 1000 students have earned PhDs from the GSBS. Since the opening of the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing (GSN) in 1986, more than 600 students have obtained

551-557: The United States. UMMHC also maintains three community hospitals: The Albert Sherman Center, a 512,000 square foot biomedical research and education facility, was unveiled to the public on January 30, 2013, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Gov. Deval Patrick . Named in honor of Lamar Soutter (founding dean of the School of Medicine), the Lamar Soutter Library at UMMS contains more than 288,000 volumes and

580-742: The chancellor emeritus, expanded upon the medical school's existing 600,000 square feet (60,000 m ) of campus buildings and 83,000 square feet (7,700 m ) in the adjacent Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park. The UMMS extended campus includes the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, labs and offices in the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park in Worcester; sites in Shrewsbury and Auburn;

609-759: The creation of an HIV vaccine, which in Phase I testing was found to generate antibody and T-cell responses in otherwise healthy people not infected with HIV. In 1998, UMMS researcher Craig Mello (an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ) and his colleague Andrew Fire (of Stanford University , then of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.) discovered RNA interference (RNAi). They demonstrated that small pieces of double-stranded RNA had interfered with

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638-595: The early 1960s. Accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education , the T.H. Chan School of Medicine grants the MD degree to its graduates. With the exception of MD/PhD students, degree candidates were formerly required to be Massachusetts residents, a policy which has changed beginning with the entering class of 2016. Approximately 165 students enroll annually, and more than 4,350 students have received medical degrees from UMMS. The School of Medicine has gained

667-534: The expression of a gene whose coding sequence of DNA was similar to that of the RNA they tested. Mello and Fire received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries related to RNA interference. Federal and private research grants and contracts at UMCMS rose from about $ 2 million in 1977 to more than $ 322 million in 2022 an increase of over 16,000% over forty-five years. MassBiologics

696-492: The family of Hong Kong real estate developer Chan Tseng-hsi resulted in the name of the medical school, along with the biosciences and nursing schools, to be changed. The research mission at UMMS was augmented in 1997 with the acquisition of the financially ailing Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts institution where researchers developed the combined oral contraceptive pill during

725-455: The firm opened an $ 80 million facility for monoclonal-antibody production. Co-developed with Serum Institute of India , it invented a fast-acting anti-Rabies drug called Rabies Human Monoclonal Antibody (RMAb). UMMS is extending its mission of public service through its Commonwealth Medicine initiative. Notable faculty members include: The hospital and clinical components of UMMS are part of UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC). UMass Memorial

754-512: The link between the immune system and type-1 diabetes, found the genetic cause underlying the third-most-common form of the muscular dystrophies, and established the fundamental difference between HIV and other retroviruses. In the 1990s. UMMS Professor of Medicine Shan Lu, leader of the UMMS DNA-based flu vaccine efforts, worked to advance the development of a potential avian-flu vaccine. Lu's team has also been recognized for its work in

783-418: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UMMS&oldid=745094505 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages University of Massachusetts Medical School The UMass Chan Medical School

812-529: The threat of SARS, avian flu, and rabies. MassBiologics has developed or collaborated on five “orphan products” over the past twenty years. MassBiologics continues to market its FDA-licensed Td (tetanus and diphtheria) vaccine, providing a substantial proportion of the U.S. requirement for this vaccine. MassBiologics participates in the discovery, production and clinical testing of monoclonal antibodies (including antibodies to Clostridioides difficile ), antibodies now known as actoxumab and bezlotoxumab In 2005,

841-437: Was established by the 162nd Massachusetts General Court in 1962 to provide residents of the commonwealth an opportunity to study medicine at an affordable cost and to increase the number of primary-care physicians practicing in the commonwealth's under-served areas. The legislation was signed into law by Massachusetts Governor John Volpe . The School of Medicine accepted its first class of 16 students in 1970. Six years later

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