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UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences announces research awards totaling more than $3 million for multiple faculty

Categories: News

As the temperatures rise across North Dakota this spring and summer and students gear up to take a break on their studies, a number of research projects at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences also are warming up. Several SMHS faculty have been awarded research grants in recent months, allowing researchers at the […]

Summer undergraduate research poster session to be held at SMHS on Aug. 4

Categories: Research

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the Summer Undergraduate Research poster session on Thursday, Aug. 4, 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 at 1301 North Columbia Road, Grand Forks, […]

Sammantha Kouba to present on systemic infections for Neurology Grand Rounds on July 28

Categories: Education

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, to be held on Thursday, July 28, Dr. Sammantha Kouba will present on “Neurologic Manifestations of Systemic Infections.” The event will be held from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. via Webex and at the Brain & Spine Clinic (2301 25th Street S.) in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. […]

Brissette awarded $387,750 grant through the NIH’s Allergy and Infectious Disease Institute

Categories: News, Research

Dr. Catherine Brissette, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, was recently awarded a $387,750 R21 grant through the National Institutes of Health’s Allergy and Infectious Disease Institute. The scientific review panel characterized Dr. Brissette’s proposal as trail-blazing, and praised the level of innovation as well as the excellent research environment at UND. A […]

Dhasarathy and Brissette awarded $300k grant via Department of Defense tick-borne disease research program

Categories: News

Department of Biomedical Sciences faculty Drs. Archana Dhasarathy and Catherine Brissette have been awarded a two-year grant through Department of Defense tick-borne disease research program. TheĀ $300,000 award (plus indirects) will be used to explore epigenetic mechanisms involved in Lyme disease. The bacterial pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the most prevalent […]