SMHS News

The Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) for Host-Pathogen Interactions at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) is inviting UND faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students to attend the Annual Host-Pathogen CoBRE Symposium to be held at the SMHS on Tuesday, September 25, 2018. The public is also invited to join UND and regional researchers and the distinguished guest speakers in discussing cutting edge findings in host-pathogen interactions.

The University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences is pleased to announce that over $630,000 in awards and scholarships have been awarded to 110 UND medical students for the 2018–2019 academic year. Funds for the scholarships come from private sources, endowments, and other awards, and have helped the School lower UND medical student debt from well above the national average to below the national average compared with all other U.S. medical schools.

As part of UND’s Homecoming 2018 festivities, the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) will host a series of events in the new SMHS building at 1301 N. Columbia Rd. in Grand Forks, including a Continuing Education Symposium and tours of the new building and Simulation Center.

Jonathan Geiger, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at UND’s School of Medicine & Health 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 marks the first time that a faculty member at UND has been the recipient of three simultaneously held R01 grants from the NIH as a principal investigator.

A $20.3 million, five-year grant to the University of North Dakota could help counter high cancer rates in North and South Dakota.