The National Institutes of Health awarded GSBSE Ph.D. candidate Amanda Ignacz the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award for her work with neuromuscular disease. Amanda is the first graduate student working in Orono at UMaine to receive this award. This nationally competitive award honors and invests in pre-doctoral students by helping […]
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Michayla Moore, who started her graduate studies in GSBSE in Fall 2020, and has been working under the advisement of Dr. Calvin Vary at MHIR published her first author manuscript! The article titled, “ALK1 Signaling in Human Cardiac Progenitor Cells Promotes a Pro-angiogenic Secretome,” was published in last fall with the Journal of Cellular Signaling” […]
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The Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE) T32 Steering Committee has chosen three current GSBSE Ph.D. students as the fourth cohort and three as the fifth cohort of the UMaine GSBSE NIH T32 Institutional Research Training Grant. The awardees are: Courtney Willey, mentor Dr. Ron Korstanje of the Jackson Laboratory Hannah Megathlin, mentor […]
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Zachary Applebee under the advising of Dr. Caitlin Howell published a review paper in Industrial Chemistry and Materials called, “Multi-component liquid-infused systems: a new approach to functional coatings.” The journal also is promoting the article on EurekAlert, a nonprofit news-release distribution platform operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a […]
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We are excited to share Ph.D. graduate student, Audrie Langlais, who received an official notice of award from the NIH for an F31 trainee fellowship. Congratulations to Audrie!
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The Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE) Welcomes Dr. Gregory Cox as Director
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Welcome to Graduate Student Spotlight Interviews! Today we encourage you to meet Mohamed Zaid, Ph.D. student, Biomedical Engineering. His way to Ph.D. path, challenges being an international student, importance of research project and personal achievement — read further in our interview with Mohamed. Your name, major, concentration and year of studying? Hi, I am Mohamed Zaid, and […]
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The fifth annual BioME Student Showcase took place in Bangor, ME. Students shared their science research and the GSBSE Ph.D. student, Cory Diemler, took the first place and award for his outstanding research “TREM2 Microglia: An Alternative Therapeutic Target for Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration.” Cory states that glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease and is the second leading […]
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