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Nov 5, 2018

CMI Seminar with CEO of Perlara

On October 24, 2018, CMI hosted a seminar given by Dr. Ethan Perlstein, CEO of Perlara.   Perlara’s mission, according to their website https://www.perlara.com/about-us/,  is “to accelerate the discovery of cures for rare genetic diseases and uncover underlying mechanisms that enable the development of treatments that work across a range of diseases and individuals.”  Dr. Perlstein presented a…

Sep 4, 2018

FTE Seminar Series Continues with Dr. Mishra

The Functional Tissue Engineering Program of the Comparative Medicine Institute continued their Seminar Series this fall.   Dr. Paras Kumar Mishra, Associate Professor of the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center was the guest speaker on August 30, 2018.  His seminar was entitled: MicroRNomics of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: From Regulatory RNA…

Jan 23, 2018

TPP 2018 Winter Update

Greetings TPP members and associates, Hope everyone had a tremendous break and that your semester is off to a great start.  It’s hard for us (Anthony and Scott) to believe that we took on the TPP leadership a year ago, the year has just flown by.  The year was busy with many TPP sponsored activities…

Dec 7, 2017

Translational Pharmacology and Physiology Program 2017 Projects

Translational Pharmacology and Physiology Program has awarded three $5000 pilot project grants. This year, the awards were made through an application process. The awarded grants were: “Characterization of Glial Cell Network and Mechanisms of Glial-Mediated Mucosal Barrier Repairs in a Neonatal Pig Model of Intestinal Ischemia – PI: Anthony Blikslager (CVM), Co-PIs: Amanda Ziegler (Associate…

Nov 28, 2017

Data Visualization – An Associate Member Workshop

By Alix Berglund and Linda Costine On November 16, the CMI hosted their second Associate Member Workshop entitled, Principles of Data Visualization. The topic of data visualization was chosen by the associate members and represents an increasingly important skill needed by researchers to effectively communicate their data. Karen Ciccone, Director of the Natural Resources Library…

Nov 28, 2017

CMI-TPP Kicks off Innovative Research with a BaM!

By Dr. Scott Laster The CMI Business and Medicine (BaM) Program debuted during the 2017 fall semester. This program provided CMI researchers with business advice from teams of students in the Master of Microbial Biotechnology (MMB) Program.  MMB students receive dual training in the science and business of biotechnology and are comfortable evaluating market potential,…