News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will hold its annual Regional Directors Meeting on the UND campus May 4-5. This two-day meeting brings together NIA leadership, Tribal leaders, area researchers, and community partners to discuss funding opportunities, aging research priorities, and data resources in a focused […]
Attention researchers! As you might know, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is adopting the use of Common Forms for biographical sketches and “Current and Pending (Other) Support” information to be used with all applications and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs) by May 25, 2025. Establishing Common Forms is a collaborative effort between federal research […]
Principal investigator Dr. Sandeep Singhal, an associate professor in UND’s Department of Pathology, is leading UND’s efforts on this a multi-institutional National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) project designed to help students, researchers, and clinicians leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to benefit students and researchers. With research becoming increasingly data-driven, biomedical researchers […]
The performance of the U.S. healthcare system has been on my mind recently, likely due to the intersection of two factors. The first was the publication a few weeks ago of a study sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund entitled Mirror Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System. The second was the visit […]
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The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, in conjunction with UND’s Office of Research & Economic Development, is sponsoring a visit from Eliseo J. Pérez–Stable, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend one of two conversations […]
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Dr. Kumi Nagamoto-Combs, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and members of her research team attended IMMUNOLOGY 2024 earlier this month. At the international conference hosted by the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) in Chicago from May 3-7, a graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher from the Nagamoto-Combs lab presented their studies that received award recognitions. A postdoc in Nagamoto-Combs’s lab, Geetika Verma, […]
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 […]
Each year around this time, supervisors are expected to do a performance evaluation on most UND employees (both faculty and staff members). This is a requirement of the North Dakota University System as well as UND (and a best business practice, by the way). A slightly different evaluation rubric is followed for faculty, relative to […]
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The ninth annual UND Epigenetics & Epigenomics Symposium will be held May 13 and 14, 2024, at the UND Memorial Union. Organizers are expecting participants from around the midwestern United States to share their research on epigenetic mechanisms in health and disease. Activities include plenary talks, poster sessions, and opportunities for informal interaction with researchers. […]
Are you applying for a research grant in 2024? To maximize the sharing of scientific data, best practices for research data now include a data management and sharing plan (DMP). If you’re applying for an NIH grant, the new federal Policy for Data Management and Sharing (NOT-OD-21-013: Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing) […]