Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

UNMC in China – Joint research symposium broadens collaboration

BEIJING — The fight against cancer is a global effort. To that end, a group of UNMC scientists were in China this week for the 2011 Annual Symposium of the China-U.S. Research Center for Life Sciences on Cancer and Stem Cells.

Oct 13, 2011

Homing in on pancreatic cancer

With the recent deaths of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Nobel Prize winner Ralph Steinman, M.D., pancreatic cancer is once again on the public’s radar screen. UNMC researchers recently secured a large grant to help their efforts to tackle this killer.

Oct 12, 2011

Cattlemen’s Ball awards $1.3 million to UNMC Eppley Cancer Center

Remaining $150,000 divided among 36 health and wellness organizations in West Point area West Point, NE – The 2011 Nebraska Cattlemen’s Ball, which raised a record total of nearly $1.5 million, has announced its distribution of the funds. The Eppley Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center will receive 90 percent of the […]

Oct 12, 2011

UNMC researchers to study role of tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer

Hope to develop better therapeutics by learning more about pancreatic cancer cells

Oct 10, 2011

Cattlemen’s Ball to award nearly $150,000 to West Point area

36 health and wellness organizations will benefit West Point, NE – The 2011 Nebraska Cattlemen’s Ball will divide nearly $150,000 in proceeds among 36 organizations in the West Point area, ranging from local fire departments to nursing homes. Complete details of the grant awards will be delivered at a 7 p.m. presentation on Monday, Oct. […]

Oct 3, 2011

2011 Cattlemen’s Ball nets record amount of nearly $1.5 million

90 percent of proceeds to go toward cancer research

Aug 25, 2011