News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
One of the many debilitating symptoms of sickle cell disease (SCD) – a genetic condition where a person’s red blood cells assume a sickle shape, inhibiting their flow into and out of vessels and capillaries – is chronic pain. Because the mechanisms underlying SCD-induced pain are poorly understood, treatments have been few and far between, […]
Yesterday the SMHS held its 44th annual Frank Low Research Day. Named in honor of the former SMHS professor of anatomy who came to UND in the 1960s and pioneered a series of new techniques using the electron microscope, Frank Low Research Day is the culminating event of the academic year for many area researchers […]
On Friday, April 1, 2022, Mentor Ahmeti, M.D., FACS, associate program director and assistant professor in the UND Department of Surgery, will present a talk entitled “Blood Therapy: How we started and where we are” at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. The talk will run from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. All are welcome […]