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“Look, I never wanted to lead a boring life,” explains Dr. Jonathan Geiger from his office in the UND Neuroscience Research Center. “And I think that I’ve done pretty well in that regard.” Reflecting on his 23 years at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences – and 50+ years as a scientist – […]

Congratulations to Dr. Darius Quansah, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Jonathan Geiger’s laboratory, who recently won first place out of postdoctoral scientists nationwide presenting at the Division of Neuropharmacology section of the annual at American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) meeting in Minneapolis, Minn. Quansah’s poster was titled “Endolysosome Re-acidification Rescues Lysosomal Progranulin […]

Dr. Jonathan Geiger, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the UND Department of Biomedical Sciences, recently presented the Opendra “Bill” Narayan Memorial Lecture at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology (SNIP). His lecture, “Lysosomes Serve Important Roles in the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Diseases, as well as the Safety and Efficacy of Modern […]

Please join the UND Department of Biomedical Sciences as we gather to honor Dr. Jonathan Geiger’s contributions to the field of biomedical science and his years of service to the University of North Dakota. A full-day scientific symposium honoring Dr. Geiger’s upcoming retirement will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, June […]

Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D., a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), has been named the vice chair (interim) of the SMHS Department of Indigenous Health (IH). Working in coordination and collaboration with Melanie Nadeau, M.P.H., Ph.D., interim chair of the Department of […]

Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D., a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), has been named the Interim Principal Investigator (PI) on the School’s five-year, $10 million the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) research award targeting Indigenous health. […]

As you may have noticed in your mailbox, or while perusing the displays in the SMHS or our website, the Holiday 2019 issue of North Dakota Medicine is now available! Features this issue include stories on: Second Year INMED student Emily Falcon and her physician-father Gilbert Med student Pranish Kantak’s effort to build a student-run free clinic in Grand Forks Drs. […]

The National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded an R01 grant titled “Tat endolysosome escape and HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorder” to Drs. Xuesong Chen and Jonathan Geiger. Both are faculty members in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Jonathan D. Geiger, PhD, in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), to serve as the chair of the HIV Co-Morbidities and Clinical Studies (HCCS) grant review study section for the NIH’s Center […]

Jonathan Geiger, PhD, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, is on a multi-university, multiple principal investigator team that received a four-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling more than $2.25 million. The grant, titled “Ketogenic Diet and Adenosine: Epigenetics and Antiepileptogenesis,” marks the first time that a […]