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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 […]

Recent changes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are likely to affect current and future research activities at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Below are two such changes for your information: 1. NIH is providing guidance to researchers on the appropriate use of artificial intelligence (AI) to maintain the fairness and […]

The Simpler.Grants.gov team is thrilled to announce the launch of its new experimental search feature! As part of their ongoing efforts to modernize Grants.gov, the team is aiming to make it easier for you to find and apply for federal funding opportunities. With a simpler design and smarter algorithms, your search results will now be […]

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 […]

For the next Wadhwani Family Dean’s Hour, Associate Professor of Law Paul E. Traynor, J.D., M.L., will discuss the implications for healthcare students, researchers, and providers of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enters. V. Raimondo (also known as the Chevron case). The decision, which assigns the determination of ambiguities in congressional […]

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 […]

“This really is a game-changer,” said Dr. Gary Schwartz, professor in the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Department of Population Health. “As the project’s name suggests, it’s going to help move our state to the next level for clinical and translational research.” Schwartz was speaking of the Translational Science […]

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, […]