News - Biomedical Sciences Research

NOVEMBER 8, 2022: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 3; Issue 4, Summer 2022
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Diana Goode – Dr. Goode was featured on a number of Maine news outlets such as News Center Maine (link here), CBS13 WGME (link here), FOX23 News (link here), and the Portland Press Herald (link here) regarding her new R01 award.
AUGUST 15, 2022: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 3; Issue 3, Spring 2022
AUGUST 12, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Diana Goode for being awarded a 5-year NIH R01 grant titled “Novel expression of MHC class II on DRG neurons and its role in promoting antinociceptive CD4+ T cells in females during chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.”
JULY 1, 2022: Welcome to new faculty member, Dr. Harry Filippakis, to the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
JUNE 27, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Ian Meng and the COBRE team for being awarded Phase 3 of the COBRE grant (more here: https://www.une.edu/news/2022/une-receives-5-million-support-chronic-pain-research-industry-collaboration)
June 2, 2022: Dr. David Mokler gave the plenary lecture at the Psychedelic Summit at O’Cannabiz in Toronto, Canada on June 2, 2022. The lecture was titled “Psychedelic Medicine: What we know, What we don’t know, What we need to know.”
APRIL 13, 2022: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 3; Issue 2, Winter 2022
APRIL 1, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Ben Harrison for being awarded a 5-year NIH R01 grant titled “RNA-Protein Interactions in Nociception”.
MARCH 22, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Karen Houseknecht for being named a Fulbright Senior Scholar. https://www.une.edu/news/2022/associate-provost-karen-houseknecht-named-fulbright-scholar
DECEMBER 21, 2021: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 3; Issue 1, Fall 2021
NOVEMBER 24, 2021: IN THE NEWS – The work of Joel Talsma, MS (and others) on the fascia plastination project was unveiled in Germany with Body Worlds – https://bodyworlds.com/exhibitions/events/
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 2; Issue 4, Summer 2021
AUGUST 8, 2021: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May (in Portland Press Herald) – It changed the game. Here’s how to guard against the delta variant
AUGUST 5, 2021: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May (in Reader’s Digest) – 12 Things You Need to Clean After Returning from the Outside World
JULY 8, 2021: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 2; Issue 3, Spring 2021
JULY 1, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Karen Houseknecht for being awarded a 5-year NIH R01 grant, as a Co-I, for work titled “Development of Hsp90 Isoform-Selective Inhibitors as a Novel Opioid Dose-Reduction Therapy” with the University of Arizona (PI: J Streicher).
JUNE 1, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Karen Houseknecht for being awarded a 5-year NIH R01 grant, as a Co-I, for work titled “A novel cell-autonomous role for beta-adrenergic receptor signaling in osteoclasts” with MMCRI (PI: KL Motyl).
APRIL 29, 2021: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – 12 Things You Need to Clean After Returning from the Outside World – Reader’s Digest
FEBRUARY 10, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Meghan May for being awarded a 3-year NIH P20 grant, as a Co-I, for work titled “COBRE in Acute Care Research and Rural Disparities” with MMCRI (PI: D Sawyer).
JANUARY 1, 2021: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 2; Issue 2, Winter 2021
NOVEMBER 1, 2020: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 2; Issue 1, Fall 2020
OCTOBER 2, 2020: The Department of Biomedical Sciences has been continuing its mission of educating medical students and continuing to perform research and scholarship during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The departmental faculty have pivoted to provide our students with their curriculum through both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. While the pandemic has hit all facets of our lives, the faculty truly miss the in-person interactions with students that have been a cornerstone of our educational mission in the department and in the COM. Departmental faculty also continue to pursue research, albeit in a limited and physically-distanced capacity, with even some laboratories (including Drs. Houseknecht, May, Tucker, Vaughn) shifting part of their research focus towards understanding SARS-CoV-2. As a whole, the faculty are anxiously waiting for the return of “normalcy” to the campus, so as to reignite our community once again. Lastly, in an effort to extend our departmental reach across the campus and the world, we have launched a new Departmental website (still in part under construction).
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – The Promising New Covid-19 Therapy You Probably Haven’t Heard About – The New Republic
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – What we’ve learned about COVID-19 so far – Portland Press Herald
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – Rush to issue vaccine concerns Maine’s CDC director – Portland Press Herald
AUGUST 25, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – Scientists Really Wish Trump Hadn’t Made That COVID Plasma Announcement – The New Republic
AUGUST 10, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – Schools face outbreaks and quarantines as challenges of reopening emerge – ABC News (Washington)
JULY 22, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – The Pandemic Isn’t Over. We Need to Act Accordingly – Self Magazine
JULY 1, 2020: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 1; Issue 4, Summer 2020
JUNE 26, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – Does air-conditioning spread coronavirus in gyms, stores, and restaurants? Experts weigh in – Business Insider
JUNE 17, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – ‘We dodged a lot of bullets’: Quick action at Cape Memory Care limited virus cases in community – Portland Press Herald
JUNE 10, 2020: IN THE NEWS – Dr. Meghan May – Can COVID-19 impact air conditioning? – AccuWeather
APRIL 1, 2020: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 1; Issue 3, Spring 2020
JANUARY 1, 2020: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 1; Issue 2, Winter 2020
OCTOBER 1, 2019: BMS Department Newsletter Vol 1; Issue 1, Fall 2019