UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine student receives prestigious research fellowship at Mayo Clinic

Mark D. Unger, a fourth-year medical student at the University of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, received an Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. As part of the fellowship program, Unger will work as a research trainee under the mentorship of Andreas Beutler, M.D. and Timothy Maus, M.D. in the Departments of Oncology and Anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota.

Unger will participate in the preclinical development and testing of novel experimental chronic pain treatments targeting the peripheral nervous system. His training will include the application and further development of chronic pain models in large animals with quantitative behavioral outcomes; the use and further development of image guided procedures (CT and MRI) for spinal targeting of pain treatments; and the use of gene therapy vectors and other biologic agents to modify pain processing in the nervous system. Unger is completing his year as an Undergraduate Medical Teaching Fellow in the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and the COM anatomy program.