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For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, to be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, Anu Gaba, M.D., will discuss metastatic cancers and the brain. The meeting will be held in-person at the Sanford Brain and Spine Center, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm. 1 and online. To join […]

A first-of-its-kind study published by University of North Dakota researchers today in JAMA Network Open reveals a significant association between residential radon gas—a common, modifiable environmental hazard—and an increased risk of ovarian cancer incidence and mortality among postmenopausal women.  The prospective cohort study, led by researchers at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) and the University of North Carolina […]

UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences researchers use AI to reveal ‘tumor neighborhoods’ to better predict cancer behavior “A tumor is more than just a cluster of cells,” explained Sandeep Singhal, Ph.D., associate professor in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Department of Pathology. “It’s a complex ecosystem – a ‘microenvironment’ […]

Everett Glower, a fourth-year biomedical sciences graduate student in Assistant Professor Benjamin Roche’s lab, won a poster award at the recent 12th International Fission Yeasts Meeting in Boston, Mass. Glower’s award winning poster was entitled “The Knob submodule of the mediator complex is essential for maintaining transcription initiation during quiescence.” In the lab, Glower assists […]

Debuting in 2017, the UND Center for Rural Health’s (CRH) Targeted Rural Health Education (TRHE) program charges medical students and other School of Medicine & Health Sciences students with writing a plain language health information article to be published in a rural newspaper where students are completing their rotation. The project encourages and supports those students to dive […]

Sandeep Singhal, Ph.D., associate professor in the SMHS Department of Pathology, is back at UND after presenting at the annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference, which took place last week in Los Angeles, Calif. Founded in 1907, the AACR is the world’s oldest association for cancer research and remains dedicated to advancing cancer […]

“Because the threat is not visible, it’s not something that people readily appreciate and act upon,” said Gary Schwartz, professor and chair of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Department of Population Health. He was speaking of radon gas, the colorless and odorless radioactive gas present in many homes in North Dakota. […]

Over the past few months, researchers at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) have received more than $8 million in grants and other project awards from agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and the North Dakota Department of Health & Human Services. These awards allow […]

UND’s first MD graduate Dr. Robert Arusell on medical education, oncology, and establishing an annuity to support the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences “Well, I was the first graduate simply due to my last name,” laughed Dr. Robert Arusell, the inaugural graduate (MD ’76) of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences […]

Sandeep Singhal, Ph.D., is an associate professor in both the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Department of Pathology and the university’s School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Originally from India, Singhal arrived at UND in 2019 and has since brought a number of research grants to the university for his efforts in […]