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A collection of UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) faculty, residents, and medical students is just back from presenting at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) conference in San Diego, Calif. According to the conference’s website, DDW is “the premier meeting for professionals working in gastroenterology, hepatology, GI endoscopy, gastrointestinal surgery and related fields.” […]

The annual Ed and Pam Carlson Lecture, featuring Dr. Kurt Albertine, professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Pediatrics, will be held in UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Room E101 on Tuesday, May 13, from noon to 1 p.m. A longtime acquaintance of Dr. Ed Carlson, Dr. Albertine will give a lecture entitled […]

UND will host the North Dakota State Science and Engineering Fair (NDSSEF) on April 1, 2025, in the UND Memorial Union in Grand Forks. Medicine and health, microbiology, biochemistry, and life sciences are among the top categories typically represented in the student projects. Approximately 150 projects will be on display from students in grades 6-12. […]

The annual Translational Science Engaging North Dakota (TRANSCEND) symposium will be held on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences. The goal of TRANSCEND, made possible by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, is to bring together researchers and clinicians with diverse experience from across the […]

Multiple SMHS graduate students have won awards or scholarships of note recently. In addition to one Department of Biomedical Sciences student, Dawn Cleveland, taking home second place at UND’s 3-Minute Thesis event a few weeks ago, Rashid Ahmad, a doctoral student in the SMHS Department of Indigenous Health, took home second place for his presentation […]

Join us for the fourth annual Indigenous Trauma & Resilience Research Center (ITRRC) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) Symposium, to be held April 24-25 at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. The ITRRC examines American Indian and Alaska Native health disparities through the lens of historical trauma and resilience to advance […]

It’s that time of year again and judges are needed for the Northeast Region Science & Engineering Fair, to be held in the UND Memorial Union from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Currently, approximately 50 projects from regional seventh- through-twelfth grade students will require review. Winners from this event go […]

UND is again participating in the ninth annual national Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Join UND faculty and students across campus at this year’s 3MT, where graduate students present their research in just three minutes. This year’s 3MT will be held on Jan. 29 in the UND Memorial Union Ballroom 214D and livestreamed via Zoom. […]

UND’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) team for host-pathogen interactions is hosting a seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 5, featuring Daniel Voth, Ph.D. Dr. Voth, who serves as vice chancellor of research & innovation and professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, will give a presentation titled “Defining early stages of pulmonary Q fever […]

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), publisher of the Journal of Lipid Research, has highlighted a paper published in the journal by Associate Professor Mikhail Golovko’s Department of Biomedical Sciences laboratory. As an ASBMB story puts it, referencing the paper’s UND-based lead author, “Derek Besch from the University of North Dakota and […]