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UNMC seeks volunteers for research registry

Participants will be asked to participate in mind/brain health research

Nov 1, 2016

UNMC partners with community health providers to improve patient transitioning

One impetuses for the grant is a study by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General that cited a loss of $2.8 billion in 2014 because of poor transitions from acute care into skilled nursing facilities

Oct 31, 2016

Inside UNMC

UNMC/Nebraska Medicine awarded $20 million to develop national training center

Center to be located in iEXCEL facility that will soon be built on UNMC/Nebraska Medicine campus

Oct 28, 2016

Here's a rendering of the iEXCEL facility that will soon be constructed on the UNMC/Nebraska Medicine campus. The new training facility will be located on the first floor of this building.

Research

$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.

Outreach

James Wisecarver, M.D., Ph.D., elected president-elect of national organization

He will serve as president-elect until fall 2018 when he will become president.

Oct 21, 2016

Outreach, Research

UNMC, Children’s receive grant to make clinical trials available statewide

Clinical trials determine if a new test or treatment works, is safe and also looks at improving the quality of life.

Oct 18, 2016

Outreach

$300,000 grant to fund behavioral health internship training in underserved

The one-year grant will support stipends for 21 counseling interns from these four graduate counseling programs.

Oct 17, 2016

Possible HIV breakthrough published in Science

A University of Nebraska Medical Center scientist is part of a research team that has shown that they can achieve sustained control of SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) infection in an animal model by supplementing antiretroviral drugs with an antibody during and after drug treatment. SIV is the animal version of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), the […]

Oct 14, 2016

Outreach

Successful Opioid Summit Held in Omaha

Focus on prevention, treatment, and law enforcement

Oct 14, 2016

Cannabidiol is topic of Oct. 18 Omaha Science Cafe

Deepak Madhavan, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, will discuss cannabidiol and its potential clinical use in treating patients suffering from epilepsy at the next Omaha Science Café at 7 p.m., Oct. 18 at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. Cannabidiol is a cannabinoid that is extracted from […]

Oct 12, 2016