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GSBSE NIH T32 Institutional Research Training Grant Awarded

The goal of this Transdisciplinary Predoctoral Training Program is to provide future scientists and engineers with a uniquely integrative education to facilitate their development as innovative transdisciplinary scientists. The Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE) at the University of Maine is an ideal home for this transdisciplinary T32 because GSBSE is a statewide biomedical science […]

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F31 Award Announcement!

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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Look who got published!

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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GSBSE NIH T32 Institutional Research Training Grant 2022-2023 & 2023-2024 Awardees

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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F31 Award Announcement!

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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