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College of Medicine Employee Spotlight — Meet Rita Laire

17-year employee loves being a grandma, traveling the U.S. and tracing her genealogy

Oct 26, 2016

This month’s spotlight video

UNMC therapist details how best to cope with chronic illness

Oct 26, 2016

Nebraska Medicine feature video: Lance’s story

Florida man praises Nebraska Medicine for helping him deal with lung cancer diagnosis

Oct 26, 2016

Research highlights

COM faculty bring in more than $3.7 million in new research funding during August

Oct 26, 2016

Shilpa Buch, Ph.D.

Welcome reception for Dr. DeBehnke on Nov. 9

Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., and the UNMC community will welcome the Nebraska Medicine CEO.

Oct 25, 2016

Jokela to step down as alumni director

As director, she advanced outreach to alumni, increased the number of alumni actively engaged with UNMC.

Oct 25, 2016

$20 million research grant is largest ever for UNMC

Will focus on clinical/translational research, developing early career researchers into independent scientists

Oct 25, 2016

Some of the steering committee members of the Great Plains IDeA-CTR Network include: (left-right) Ted Mikuls, M.D., Ann Fruhling, Ph.D., Ashok Mudgapalli, Ph.D., Fang Yu, Ph.D., Jim McClay, M.D., Matt Rizzo, M.D., Mary Cramer, Ph.D., Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, Ph.D., Risto Rautiainen, Ph.D., Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D., and Karla Klaus. NOTE: Dr. Fruhling is from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. All others in the photo are from UNMC. Those UNMC steering committee members missing from the photo are: Paul Estabrooks, Ph.D., Lani (Chi Chi) Zimmerman, Ph.D.,  Jane Meza, Ph.D., and Babu Guda, Ph.D.

Grant to fund clinical trials for children statewide

Healthier children the goal as UNMC, Children’s team for program investigating exposures from conception through early childhood.

Oct 21, 2016

Exploring virus as delivery system for gene therapy

Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., collaborators, publish study in The Journal of Neuroscience.

Oct 19, 2016

Dr. Fey takes his own path to excellence in mentoring

Paul Fey’s lab takes monthly hikes together, “much to the jealousy of the other labs on our floor,” said Cortney Halsey, a graduate research assistant. “We spend an afternoon every month in the outdoors discussing not only our science but a multitude of other topics. It is an activity that has been vital to keeping […]

Oct 17, 2016