CBR Program Partners
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst
is the largest public research university in the Northeast, with an enrollment of approximately 24,000 students, including 5,300 graduate students. Ten academic departments and four interdepartmental programs offer graduate degrees in the life sciences. The interdepartmental graduate programs in Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) and Neuroscience and Behavior (NSB) have achieved national recognition. The MCB Program was recently ranked in the top thirty percent by the National Research Council study of graduate programs. Consistent with their biomedical interest, many of the faculty are funded by NIH research grants. In addition to well-equipped individual labs, UMass-Amherst also supports research with the following staffed facilities:
- Genomics Resource Lab
- Central Microscopy Facility
- NMR Spectroscopy
- Mass Spectrometry
- Biological Computing Resource Center