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Congratulations to Rouwaida Nitiema (Gateways Program/Scroggins Laboratory) and Sarah King (Gateways Program/Lefevre Laboratory), recipients of the 2026 Arthur G. Johnson Award. Both students will...

Dr. Lynne Bemis et al published an article titled “Advanced Molecular and Microscopic Diagnostics Suggest Congenital Borrelia Transmission: A Case Report” in the journal Microorganisms 14, no. 2: 406...

Drs. Jean Regal and Sabrina Scroggins, and Integrated Biosciences graduate student Courtney O’Kane, have a new publication in Current Opinion in Physiology.

Congratulations to BMS recipients who received the 2026 Whiteside Institute for Clinical Research grant to support their respective research.

Anthropologists at the University of Minnesota Medical School are using augmented reality (AR) to help people better understand the environmental impacts of climate change in Alaska.

The Slattery/Lacher lab has engineered a new device: the GunSmoke Exposure Chamber (GSEC).

Drs. Emma Verstraete and Allie Zachwieja recently published an article titled "Vernacular Infrastructure: a hidden cost in the economics of climate change and permafrost thaw in Alaska" in...

A number of Krüppel-like transcription factor (KLF) family members display mechanoresponsive behaviors, but their roles as mechanotransducers in tumorigenesis and metastasis are not yet well...

Congratulations to Natasha Adams, recipient of the 2025 Award for Excellence in Academic Unit Service from the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost! This award recognized her as a...

Sara Zimmer, PhD, in the Department of Biomedical Sciences is the co-author of an article titled, “Evolutionary divergent kinetoplast genome structure and RNA editing patterns in the trypanosomatid...

Drs. Yu Liu and Detlef Heck co-authored a new research paper in the journal Nature Communications, titled “Cerebellar output neurons can impair non-motor behaviors by altering development of...

Dr. Sabrina Scroggins published a new research paper in the April 2025 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders. The paper is titled “Immune Dysregulation in Bipolar Disorder.”

On December 14, 2024, the Duluth Medical School hosted its 52nd Annual Farewell Banquet at Clyde Iron in Duluth, bringing together second-year medical students, faculty, and staff. The event...

The Department of Biomedical Sciences is proud to announce that the students awarded the Faculty Teaching Awards for the Foundation Phase Excellence in Teaching.

The University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) in the Twin Cities hosted a seminar titled "Crucial Conversations: Climate Change and One Health" on November 20, 2024, as part of its...

The Edwin Eddy Professorship in Neurocommunication Disorders was established in 1987 to support a position for educational, research and patient treatment purposes around stuttering and other forms...

The publication by Martina Saltafossi, Detlef Heck, Daniel Kluger and Somogy Varga paper, titled "Common threads: Altered interoceptive processes across affective and anxiety disorders," explores how...

Dr. Wallace co-authored an updated chapter on mitochondrial genome perturbations in Comprehensive Toxicology 4th edition, covering structure, regulation, and stability.

Amy Yang, PhD, published a recent article titled, “Intersectin‐1 enhances calcium‐dependent replenishment of the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles during development”, in the Journal of...

Kudos to the Slattery-Lacher lab team! Advances in Redox Research accepted their recent manuscript for publication. The paper is titled, “NRF2 Protects Lung Epithelial Cells from Wood Smoke Particle...