The INBRE-funded Kennedy Lab at Bates College has filed a provisional patent for a recently-discovered molecule that may aid in cancer and other disease cures. Watch the recent news story on News Center Maine here. Read the scientific article in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters here. More details below … Announcing Bobcat339: a student-invented molecule with pharmaceutical…

The INBRE Project Leaders met with the External Advisory Committee to discuss their research programs in March 2019 at the Southern Maine Community College.

The National Institutes of Health recently renewed the Maine INBRE grant, providing $18M in funding for biomedical research and training in Maine over the next five years. MDI Biological Laboratory Receives $18 Million for Biomedical Research and Training

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Losick Lab Job Summary: The MDI Biological Laboratory seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow to work in the laboratory of Assistant Professor, Vicki Losick. The Losick lab studies the cell and molecular mechanism of wound repair using the fruit fly, Drosophila, as a model.  The lab has found that healing is…

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Staples Lectureship at UMaine: Dr. David Bartel (MIT), November 15-16, 2018 Molecular and Biomedical Sciences @ UMaine will be hosting Dr. David Bartel Whitehead Institute Professor of Biology, MIT Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute National Academy of Sciences (2011) for a Staples Lectureship (2 research seminars and 1 public lecture) From Dr. Bartel’s website: “We…

Hadley, Horch, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology and neuroscience at Bowdoin, has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, titled “Adult Compensatory Plasticity in an Invertebrate Sensory System”, will study how flexible nervous systems remain as they age. More specifically, it will examine the mechanisms of adult plasticity in…

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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Director Jon R. Lorsch, Ph.D., has announced the selection of Ming Lei, Ph.D., as director of the Institute’s Division for Research Capacity Building (DRCB). Lei is expected to join the Institute later this month. DRCB is composed of four programs: Institutional Development Awards, Native American Research Centers…