Dr Robert Finberg, COVID-19 vaccine researcher UMass Medical School dies
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UMass Medical School researchers to evaluate treatment options for early COVID-19 infection
UMass Medical School Communications July 08, 2021
UMass Medical School is participating in the ACTIV-2 Outpatient Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Therapies Trial, which is being led by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). ACTIV-2 includes both Phase II and Phase III evaluations of investigational agents for treating early COVID-19.
To qualify for ACTIV-2, participants must have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the outpatient setting within 10 days and started experiencing symptoms within eight days of enrolling.
“The goal of ACTIV-2 is to identify treatments that can keep people who acquire COVID-19 from getting sicker and requiring hospitalization,” said Robert W. Finberg, MD, distinguished professor of medicine and lead investigator of the Medical School’s ACTIV-2 trial site. “People living in central Massachusetts who have recently been diagnosed with COVID-19 a
David McManus and Brian Lewis named to endowed chairs
Chancellor Collins announces appointment of ‘accomplished and visionary faculty leaders’
UMass Medical School Communications April 14, 2021
UMass Medical School will invest David McManus, MD, and Brian Lewis, PhD, into endowed chairs. The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted at its April meeting to approve naming Dr. McManus, chair and professor of medicine, to the
Richard M. Haidack Professorship in Medicine, and Dr. Lewis, professor of molecular, cell & cancer biology, to the
George F. Booth Chair in the Basic Sciences.
“These two accomplished and visionary faculty leaders join a great tradition of the Medical School, one that honors those benefactors whose confidence in our mission led them to make a commitment to our future,” said Chancellor Michael F. Collins, who announced the honors. “UMass Medical School is greatly enhanced by the commitment these colleagues have made to our i