Newsletter

Sep 11, 2019

Amanda Ziegler Receives NIH K Award

Dr. Amanda Ziegler has been awarded an Office of the Director/Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (OD/ORIP) Special Emphasis Research Career Award (SERCA).  Her grant, Postnatal Development of Intestinal Barrier Repair is specifically awarded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to veterinarians beginning their careers.  The goal of this study is to examine postnatal development of… 

Sep 5, 2019

CMI Annual Research & Innovation Summit 2019 – CMI Impact

On August 26, the Comparative Medicine Institute held its Annual Research & Innovation Summit in the Talley Center. The all day event began with a welcome and state-of-the-institute address by the CMI Director, Jorge Piedrahita.  The overall theme of the day was CMI Impact.  The morning agenda included program summaries from each of the Associate… 

Aug 29, 2019

CMI SIRI Poster Award Winners

The Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) Summer Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (SIRI) had seventeen undergraduate students doing summer research in various collaborative labs across the campus.  The program culminates in a poster competition at the CMI Annual Research & Innovation Summit.  The SIRI students presented posters and were judged not only on their research but also on… 

Aug 5, 2019

SIRI at Summer Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium

Seventeen current Summer Interdisciplinary Research Initiative Students (SIRI) participated in the 18th Annual NC State University Summer Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium on August 1, 2019 at the Talley Center.  We are proud to also acknowledge two of our program alumni who also participated.   Loulou Batta – Testing of Natural Compounds for Inhibition of Porcine… 

Jul 11, 2019

“Careers in Industry” – An Associate Member Workshop

By Kathryn Polkoff CMI Associate Members hosted a workshop, June 19, 2019, on Careers in Industry. As PhD students and post-docs, we see academia from start to finish–and generally have a solid grasp of what it would be like to have a career in academia. But there is a whole other world of jobs available… 

Jun 26, 2019

NC State’s Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) Announces Drug Development Partnership with NC Central University

A new partnership between NC State University and North Carolina Central University aims to identify drug development research leads faster. The partnership brings together the distinct but complementary assets of NC State’s Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) and NC Central’s Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE). BRITE brings to the table high-throughput screening technologies, in addition to…