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The Woodhams Lab now has a state-of-the-art research space in the new Integrative Science Complex at UMass Boston.  This new building provides 220,000 gross square feet of space featuring: research lab and support space for biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, physics, and psychology; undergraduate introductory biology teaching laboratories; an interdisciplinary undergraduate sandbox teaching lab, an infant cognition lab; and a new research center—the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy.  This $182 million dollar project was funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the UMass Building Authority, and Mass Development.

Interviewed for his professional perspective, Dr. Woodhams is quoted in The New York Times piece, Hope for Frogs in Face of a Deadly Fungus.  The article highlights recent discoveries that amphibians are able to acquire immunity to B. dendrobatidis.  This may lead to effective vaccination strategies against the disease, responsible for threatening amphibian populations worldwide.