College of Medicine
Chancellor Gold to be honored at Ignite Awards
Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, will be honored by The Wellbeing Partners with a Lifetime Achievement Award for leadership.
Sep 20, 2021
![UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GoldAOneicon.jpg)
Food trucks scheduled for campus, High School Alliance recognized, and other news and notes from the UNMC community.
Sep 17, 2021
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Study explores potential long-acting HIV, Hep-B treatment
Benson Edagwa, PhD, and team publish study in Nature Communications.
Sep 17, 2021
![Benson Edagwa, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Edagwa060820.jpg)
New faculty spotlight: Kai Yang, MD
Dr. Yang is an assistant professor in the UNMC Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Sep 16, 2021
![Kai Yang, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Yang091321.jpg)
Study explores potential long-acting HIV, Hepatitis-B treatment
The article, “Transformation of tenofovir into stable ProTide nanocrystals with long-acting pharmacokinetic profiles,” is published today in Nature Communications.
Sep 16, 2021
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New Health Design Thinking Program established
Jennifer Kallio, DDS, T.J. Welniak, MD, Katherine Bravo, PhD, and Amy Pick, PharmD, to lead new effort.
Sep 16, 2021
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Douglas County health director tours UNMC
Lindsay Huse, DNP, visited the Omaha campus with county epidemiologist Anne O’Keefe, MD.
Sep 16, 2021
![From left, Lindsay Huse, DNP, and Anne O'Keefe, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Huse1.jpg)
UNMC receives $20.3 million research grant, largest in its history
The grant is a renewal of a record $20 million National Institutes of Health grant received in 2016.
Sep 15, 2021
![Matthew Rizzo, MD, principal investigator of the grant.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Matthew_Rizzo_Neurology_2016.jpg)
Renewal is largest research grant in UNMC history
The Great Plains Institutional Development Award program for Clinical and Translational Research received the five-year, $20.3 million award.
Sep 14, 2021
![Matthew Rizzo, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Rizzo21107.jpg)
New faculty spotlight: Lindsay Helget, MD
Dr. Helget is an assistant professor in the UNMC Division of Rheumatology.
Sep 14, 2021
![Lindsay Helget, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Helget091421.jpg)