Nearly 50 student doctors presented projects related to case studies, basic science, and clinical or qualitative research at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine Research and Scholarship Forum on Friday, Oct. 29, over multiple poster sessions in Innovation Hall on UNE’s Portland Campus.
The event drew students from all levels of their medical education who are engaged in research to showcase individual and group projects completed over the course of the semester. It also welcomed faculty, professional staff, and other members of the UNE community as spectators for the judged poster contest.
Following an introduction by Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., professor and director of Geriatrics Education and Research in UNE’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNE COM), the main event room of Innovation Hall quickly became a sea of white coats, abuzz with inquiry.
Several onlookers gathered around a poster by Gesele Henderson (D.O., ’24), whose project, “Establishing a Model for Saphenous Nerve Transection to Investigate the Innervation of Rodent Tibia,” studied how nerves in the body impact bone functions like storing and refining bodily nutrients.