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

UNMC for the record

Food trucks scheduled for campus, High School Alliance recognized, and other news and notes from the UNMC community.

Sep 17, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

New faculty spotlight: Lindsay Helget, MD

Dr. Helget is an assistant professor in the UNMC Division of Rheumatology.

Sep 14, 2021

Lindsay Helget, MD