Vice Chancellor Research

Drs. Van Hook, Wang named Kinman Oldfield scholars

The scholarships are awarded annually by the Vada Kinman Oldfield Alzheimer’s Research Fund.

Apr 28, 2021

From left, Xinglong Wang, PhD, and Matthew Van Hook, PhD

Grants available for new technology development

Attendees will learn about Nebraska Business Development Act, how to gain access to ‘valley of death’ funding.

Apr 22, 2021

Michael Dixon, PhD, president and CEO of UNeMed

Saddle Creek development project to transform area

Site will be home to an ‘innovation hub.’

Apr 21, 2021

Campus leaders will preserve as much as possible from the historic Omaha Steel Works facilities as they develop the Innovation Hub.

Study: Enzyme protects cells from oxidative damage

Dr. Borgstahl’s lab contributed to study recently published in Nature Communications.

Apr 16, 2021

Like a vacuum cleaner, electrostatic forces found on the surface of the human manganese superoxide dismutase active site funnel (blue positively charged vectors) draw in the negatively charged superoxide (O2•-) to the manganese metal. The superoxide is destroyed and the oxidative damage associated with aging and disease is prevented. The Borgstahl group at UNMC has revealed the unusual biochemistry that make this happen.

Grand Rounds lectureship to honor James Lane, MD

Dr. Lane was the inaugural UNMC/Nebraska Medicine Diabetes Center director.

Apr 6, 2021

James Lane, MD

Dr. Kratochvil named health security endowed chair

Christopher Kratochvil, MD, will be inaugural Global Center for Health Security Distinguished Chair.

Mar 24, 2021

Christopher Kratochvil, MD

CHRI pediatric research forum seeking abstracts

Abstracts and poster submissions accepted through April 15 for May event.

Mar 24, 2021

Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD, interim executive director for the Child Health Research Institute

UNMC’s Pete Iwen, PhD, is a vaccination veteran

Nervous about getting the COVID-19 vaccine? Dr. Iwen has been vaccinated for smallpox five times.

Mar 16, 2021

UNMC's Sharon Medcalf administers the smallpox vaccine to Pete Iwen, PhD, as Morgan Shradar from the biocontainment unit observes.

Dr. Ng to speak at national conference on malaria

Caroline Ng, PhD, will present on overcoming drug resistance in malaria-causing parasites.

Mar 16, 2021

Caroline Ng, PhD

Clinical Trial Registry: Ophthalmology research

UNMC investigators seek participants for an ophthalmology and visual research registry.

Mar 15, 2021