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Dr. Ray Cao, Associate Professor, has been invited to serve a 4-year term as a Member of the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award Study Section, Cell Biology Integrated Review Group....

The Memory Keepers-Medical Discovery Team awarded Drs. Emily Onello (PI), MD, Associate Professor in the department of Family Medicine & Biobehavioral Health, Kendra Nordgren (Co-I), PhD,...

As of April 1, 2023, Dr. Detlef Heck will take the helm of the Biomedical Sciences Department at the Medical School, Duluth Campus, as the new Department Head. Dr. Heck has over 30 years of...

DULUTH (02/13/2023) — The University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus received a $750,000 award from the Genentech Innovation Fund to support the creation and operation of...

Reported by Spectrum News at the Neuroscience 2022 conference in San Diego, California, and published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.  Dr. Abhishek Mishra, a postdoctoral...

Drs. Robert Cormier, Associate Professor, and Patricia Scott, Assistant Professor, are both enthusiastic about colon cancer research at the Medical School, Duluth Campus. They are the recipients of a...

High blood pressure during pregnancy can result in increased risk for Type 2 diabetes in the offspring. To begin to understand the mechanism of this increased risk, the Regal lab in the Department of...

Dr. Sara Zimmer and Clara Smoniewski, a PhD candidate in Dr. Zimmer’s lab, participated in the Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Cleveland, OH on October 14-15th. Dr. Zimmer co-chaired the 300-person meeting...

Yi-Mei (Amy) Yang, PhD,  joined the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus in 2016. Since then, with guidance from her mentors, Drs. Tim Ebner and Bob Cormier, she has established...

The Department of Biomedical Sciences, UMN Medical School, Duluth Campus, is pleased to announce that a new article by Drs. Owen Y. Chao, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Yi-Mei (Amy) Yang,...

This is the second R01 grant to the Cao lab investigating circadian rhythms and effects on health. In this project, the Cao lab investigates how dysregulation of cellular stress and daily...

Sara Zimmer, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, published a new article about chagas disease, titled "Trypanosoma cruzi strain and starvation-driven mitochondrial RNA editing and...

Sarah Lacher, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, received the American Lung Association Research Award for its Catalyst Award program. This grant is a collaboration...

On May 24, 2022, the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, held a celebratory reception in the Atrium to honor the promotion of five faculty members.

On June 2, the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, offered a day-long science community event to students from underserved communities, from Denfeld and East High Schools, to learn...

Alexandra Zachwieja, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, co-authored an article in Nature Communications by...

The Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS) invites applications for the position of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Pathology.  

Kudos to the Yang Laboratory for receiving over 1.9 million dollars in funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to support Neuroscience research at the University of Minnesota...

Dr. Fernandez-Funez has been selected by the Medical School Honors and Awards Committee as the recipient of the Year 1 + 2 Educational Innovative Award 2022.

The year 2022 is cause for celebration! The University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, is offering a series of events throughout the year to mark its 50th Anniversary. Read more about...