Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering

The newly-formed Maine chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) held its first annual meeting at Bates College on April 23, 2011. Over 75 neuroscience faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates from around the state of Maine participated in the daylong event. Dr. Guoping Feng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered the external keynote address […]

Diana Romero PhD, and co-authors including Kira Young, a GSBS student at the University of Maine, have published the findings of their research in the journal “Cancer Research”. The article is entitled “Endoglin regulates cancer-stromal cell interactions in prostate tumors.” The work was conducted in the laboratory of  GSBS faculty member Calvin Vary, PhD at […]

GSBS student, Jacquelyn Ames, has been selected to receive the 2011 Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology Scholar-in-Training award for the poster she will be presenting at the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research meeting this April.   Poster Title and Authors: Regulation of inflammation and tumor growth by the novel XL313 cryptic ECM element. Jacquelyn J. Ames, […]

The GSBS Spring Faculty Meeting will be held on Friday April 15:  9 – 10:30 am in the Maren Auditorium at the Mt. Desert Island Biological Lab The meeting will be held at the38th Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS).  Information on the symposium and registration details are below.  The GSBS will reimburse faculty for […]

Karen Dowell, a GSBS student in the Functional Genomics track, was awarded a two-year Predoctoral Fellowship in Informatics by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation.   The title of Karen’s grant is:  “StemNET: Exploring Stem Cell and Cancer Biology Through Bayesian Network Machine Learning.”   PhRMA Informatics awards are intended to support […]

  GSBS student, Justin Guay was recently awarded the Founders Affiliate Predoctoral Fellowship by the American Heart Association to begin on January first. The title and the summary of the grant are as follows: The Role of DAPK2 in Fibroblast Activation in Chronic Kidney Injury Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is frequently associated with cardiovascular disease […]

  John Lowery, D.O., a 2010 graduate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and GSBS student at the University of Maine, has published the findings of his latest research in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. The article is entitled “In vivo characterization of MMP-2200, a delta/mu opioid agonist, in […]

Joshua Boucher, a GSBS student in the Cell & Molecular Track has been awarded  an American Heart Association Predoctoral Research Fellowship.  The title of his grant is “Differential Roles For Jagged1 and Delta like-1 in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells”  The funding period is two years and focuses not only on research but overall training of Ph.D […]

A great article about GSBS was recently published in the University of Maine’s quarterly magazine, UMaine Today.  It is entitled “Why and How of Human Disease: GSBS is committed to improving public health: and was written by by Aimee Dolloff.  Check it out at: http://www.umaine.edu/magazine/past-issues/winter-2009/why-and-how-of-human-disease/

On January 8th, GSBS students participated in their tri-monthly in-person meeting in Portland, ME.  The GSBS students hold monthly meetings via videoconference where students present on their recent work, but every three months one of the locations holds a get together for all the students.  The tri-monthly meeting was quite an event as the students […]