News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
The Indigenous Trauma & Resilience Research Center (ITRRC) is excited to announce the release of this year’s requests for application (RFA) for both the Pilot Grant Program and the Research Project Grant Program. These projects aim to support research addressing the impact of historical and unresolved trauma on health inequities in American Indian (AI) and […]
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the Summer Undergraduate Research poster session on Thursday, Aug. 1, at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS). The one-day event will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on the second floor of the UND SMHS building, 1301 N. Columbia Rd., Grand Forks. For […]
ND EPSCoR seeks to provide emerging areas seed awards of up to $40,000 each in direct costs (appropriate F&A will be added to each award) to researchers at institutions collaborating on the NSF EPSCoR Track-1 award New Discoveries in the Advanced Interface of Computation, Engineering, and Science (ND-ACES) in areas of North Dakota’s broad and […]
Attention SMHS researchers: The Vilcek Foundation is currently accepting applications for the 2025 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. In 2025, the Vilcek Foundation will award three prizes of $50,000 to immigrant and foreign-born research scientists living and working in the United States. To be eligible candidates must hold a Ph.D. and be […]
The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) for Host-Pathogen Interactions (HPI) is inviting researchers and clinicians interested in infection, immunity, and inflammation to participate in the Ninth Annual Host-Pathogen CoBRE Symposium to be held as an in-person event from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at the Gorecki Alumni Center. Registration is necessary […]
Kaitlyn Gura, a doctoral student in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) biomedical sciences graduate program, has been selected to receive an award from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for 2024. The highly competitive NSF-GRFP is among the oldest graduate fellowships of its kind and was first […]
For its annual Robert C. Nordlie Lecture, to be held from noon to 1 p.m. on April 24, the SMHS Department of Biomedical Sciences is hosting Richard O’Brien, Ph.D., professor in the Vanderbilt University Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. Dr. O’Brien’s lecture, “The continuing impact of Dr. Robert C. Nordlie on Glucose-6-Phosphatase research,” will […]
The Department of Biomedical Sciences, housed within UND’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), has been listed was the No. 1 recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant dollars among comparable departments nationwide in fiscal year 2023. As noted by federal grant tracking agency, the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, the biomedical sciences team at […]
The 9th annual University of North Dakota Epigenetics & Epigenomics Symposium will be held May 13-14, 2024, at the UND Memorial Union. We are expecting participants from around the midwestern United States, who will share their research on epigenetic mechanisms in health and disease. Activities will include talks, poster sessions, and opportunities for informal interaction […]
Congratulations to Drs. Melanie Nadeau and Shawnda Schroeder, assistant professors in the SMHS Department of Indigenous Health, who were informed by Wiley Publishing recently that their two separate journal articles were in the top 10% of articles downloaded via their respective journals in the past year. According to Wiley, Nadeau’s paper “Centering culture in the […]