Author: Suzanne Lagoni

At first glance, a room in the basement of McGill Hall on the University of Montana campus appears like a private gym with treadmills, dumbbells and exercise bikes. 

It seems like a good place for a workout. But the space is actually a research laboratory for students and faculty in UM’s School of Integrative Physiology and Athletic Training within the College of Health. 

Doug Brinkerhoff intends to use computer deep learning to improve predictions of sea level rise from melting ice sheets. Beverly Piggott will study how brain cells regulate their own acidity during development.

A team of scientists from Montana State University recently published unique research examining how individual cells respond to viral infection. The work used state-of-the-art technology to culture cells and track infection in real time; it is the first known project to use microfluidic technology to culture, infect and track infection on a single-cell level. 

A Montana State University researcher was recently awarded a $2.76 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to help find pre-symptom evidence of the onset of osteoarthritis, a disease that affects one in seven Americans. 

Wintermute Biomedical has successfully raised USD 1.3 million from investors to propel its groundbreaking Shingles treatment, Solexan™, into a Phase Ib clinical trial. The primary focus of this randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial is to assess the safety, tolerability, and proof-of-concept efficacy of Solexan™ in reducing shingles-related pain and expediting lesion healing.

Golden Helix, Inc. announced that it has received the certification for ISO 13485:2016 from TÜV SÜD. ISO 13485:2016 is an international standard that specifies requirements for a quality management system (QMS) for organizations involved in the design, development, production, and servicing of medical devices. 

Golden Helix, Inc. announced that it has received the certification for ISO 13485:2016 from TÜV SÜD. ISO 13485:2016 is an international standard that specifies requirements for a quality management system (QMS) for organizations involved in the design, development, production, and servicing of medical devices. It is specifically tailored to the medical device industry and is recognized globally as a benchmark for ensuring the quality and safety of medical devices.

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a Montana State University doctoral student a prestigious Graduate Partnership Program Fellowship. Through the fellowship, Jonathan Shikany, a second-year doctoral student in MSU’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, will receive funding for tuition and living expenses as he completes his degree, as well as funding to cover research-related expenses.