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PPT Seminar on Friday, February 1, 2013

Dr. Vadim Gurvich, Research Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Institute for Therapeutics Discovery & Development, will present a seminar titled “ITDD: An engine for academic drug discovery and development” on Friday, February 1 at 2:00 p.m. in room 3933 in the School of Medicine. This seminar is sponsored by the Center of Biomedical [...]

PPT/COBRE Seminar on November 30

Dr. Michael Hasselmo, Professor at the Center for Memory and Brain, Department of Psychology, and Graduate Program for Neuroscience at Boston University, will present a seminar titled “Oscillations, Grid Cells and Memory Function in the Entorhinal Cortex” on Friday, November 30 at 2:00 p.m. in room 3933 in the School of Medicine & Health Sciences.  [...]

PPT/COBRE Seminar on November 16

Dr. Li Gan, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, University of California-San Francisco, will present a seminar titled “Inflammatory pathways in aging and neurodegeneration” on Friday, November 16 at 2:00 pm in room.3933 in the School of Medicine.  This seminar is sponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Center for Neurodegenerative [...]

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar on October 5

Dr. Kim A. Neve, Senior Research Career Scientist at the Oregon Health and Science University, will present a seminar titled “Functionally selective receptors: A novel approach to studying GPCRs” on Friday, October 5 at 2:00 pm in Rm. 3933 in the School of Medicine. This seminar is sponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence [...]

Collette Wins NIGMS Travel Award

Katie Collette, a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Therapeutics, has won a travel award to present her data at the Fourth Biennial National IDeA (Institutional Development Award) Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence in Washington, D.C. The symposium is sponsored by the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), a component of the National [...]

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar on May 25

Timothy J. Cunningham, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine, will present a seminar titled “Monitoring and inhibition of secreted phospholipase A2 as therapy for Multiple Sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders” on Friday, May 25 at 2:00pm in Rm. 3933 in the School of Medicine. This seminar [...]

PPT Researchers Publish HAND Syndrome Research in Journal of Neurochemistry

HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) is a syndrome that ranges clinically from subtle neuropsychological impairments to profoundly disabling HIV-associated dementia.  To read more, click HERE.

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar on December 16

Heidi Scrable, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology at the Mayo Clinic, will present a seminar titled “The long and short of p53″ on Friday, December 16 at 2:00pm in Rm. 3933 in the School of Medicine.  This seminar is sponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Pathophysiological Signaling in Neurodegenerative [...]

Keith Henry Discusses Brain Research and His Path to Science

In a Studio One interview, Keith Henry, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Therapeutics, discusses his research on computer modeling of how drugs interact with the brain and elicit different behaviors. Henry also talks about his career, in which, just as yeast leavens bread, two people—his father and an early mentor—raised [...]

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar-November 4

Dr. Qin Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will present a seminar titled “Regulation of GPCR Responsiveness by Interacting Proteins” on Friday, November 4 at 2:00 pm in Room 3933 in the School of Medicine.  This seminar is sponsored by the Center [...]

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar on October 21

Dr. Lawrence J. Marnett, Mary Geddes Stahlman Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, will present a seminar titled “Inhibition of COX-2 oxygenation of endocannabinoids: Implications for the biochemistry and pharmacology of NSAIDS” on Friday, October 21st at 2:00 pm in Room 3933 in the School [...]

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar on October 14

Dr. Gordon Lithgow, Professor at the Buck Institute for Aging Research, will present a seminar titled “Small molecules that slow aging” on Friday, October 14 at 2:00pm in Rm. 3933 in the School of Medicine. This seminar is sponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Pathophysiological Signaling in Neurodegenerative Disorders and the Department of [...]

Geiger Elected to Serve Central Region of NAIPI

Jonathan D. Geiger, PhD, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor; chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Therapeutics; interim chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology; and principal investigator for UND’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant on Pathophysiological Signaling in Neurodegenerative Diseases, has been elected to a four-year term to serve the [...]

Pharmacology, Physiology, and Therapeutics Seminar is September 16

Kumi Nagamoto-Combs, licensing assistant for the Office of Intellectual Property Commercialization and Economic Development at the University of North Dakota, will present a seminar titled “Intellectual Property: Basics and Guidelines” on Friday, September 16, at 2 p.m. in Room 3933 at the SMHS in Grand Forks.  This seminar is sponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research [...]

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar on September 9, 2011

Dr. Grant Hatch, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics & Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba, will present a seminar titled “Towards a therapeutic approach to Barth Syndrome: A big role for a little cardiolipin remodeling enzyme” on Friday, September 9 at 2:00pm in Rm. 3933 in the School of Medicine.  [...]

UND SMHS Faculty Receive Faculty of 1000 Recognition for Published Article

Faculty of 1000 (F1000) has identified one of  UND’s SMHS papers as being within the top 2% of all published articles in the biological and medical sciences.  Dr. Saobo Lei, Associate Professor in the Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Department at UND, was the lead author of the Faculty 1000 article.  The University of North Dakota [...]

Professor in PPT Receives a Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging

The laboratory of Holly Brown-Borg (Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences) was awarded a Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging. This is an unsolicited award from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research. ($60,000)

Geiger Aids Study on Seizure Suppression

Jonathan Geiger, PhD, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Therapeutics at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is a member of the research team that has identified the molecular mechanism responsible for the antiepileptic effects of a ketogenic diet, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet similar to that [...]

Dr. Keith Henry Research Highlight Video

 On the SMHS Facebook page, you will find a UND video that highlights research being conducted by Dr. Keith Henry of the SMHS Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics.

Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics Seminar on May 20

Dr. Sangita Sinha, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at North Dakota State University, will present a seminar titled “Targeting gamma-herpsevirus Bcl-2 – mediated inhibition of autophagy” on Friday, May 20 at 2:00pm in Rm. 3933 in the School of Medicine. This seminar is sponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Pathophysiological Signaling in [...]