News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Kaitlyn Gura, a doctoral student in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences, was awarded second place for her poster presentation at the Fourth Annual Tick Borne Diseases Symposium, held recently at Johns Hopkins University. Gura recently successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, and will be graduating from UND next week […]
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 […]
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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. The $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 […]