Vice Chancellor Research

$11.8 million grant funds continued discovery on staphylococcus infections

Includes expanded ‘mutant library’

Sep 23, 2019

From left to right are: Vinai Thomas, Ph.D., Ken Bayles, Ph.D., Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., and Paul Fey, Ph.D. Not pictured is Alex Horswill, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado.

UNMC for the record

News and notes from the UNMC community.

Sep 13, 2019

Matt McCarthy, M.D.

UNMC team uses dyes to ID, analyze bacterial pathogens

Work by UNMC team was recently published in the journal ACS Sensors.

Sep 13, 2019

From left, Denis Svechkarev, Ph.D., and Aaron Mohs, Ph.D.

Time out with T.O. – The universal language

International Student Research Forum strengthens relationships.

Sep 11, 2019

Attendees at this year's International Student Research Forum pose at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. UNMC coordinators of the ISRF Keith Swarts and Jayme Nekuda, Ph.D., are at left in the front row.

UNMC receives $650,000 for research in cancer, smoking diseases

Thirteen scientists at UNMC have received a cumulative $650,000 in grant funding to further their research in cancer and diseases related to smoking.

Aug 29, 2019

Global team evaluates CRISPR gene editing methods

Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Ph.D., is a corresponding author on the paper in Genome Biology.

Aug 28, 2019

From left, Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Ph.D., of UNMC, and Gaetan Burgio, Ph.D., of Australian National University

Time out with T.O. – A unique summer camp

Participants come from all over the world to attend “Staph Camp” at UNMC.

Aug 22, 2019

Camp participants included: (standing left-right) - Bibek Subedi, Kansas State University, Paul Fey, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Tianwei Shen, University of Washington, Marat Sadykov, UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Vinai Thomas, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Jessica Gilbertie, D.V.M., North Carolina State University, Danai Etter, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Camilla Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Ken Bayles, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology; (sitting left to right) -- Lauren Hammond, University of South Florida, Anna Sommer, Robert Koch Institute-Berlin, Catherine Leasure, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Robert Ulrich, M.D., New York University School of Medicine, and Brandon Anjuwon-Foster, National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Attendees not pictured included: Shahad Alqahtani, Georgetown University, Dina Altwiley, University of Bristol, Bristol UK, and Christine Livingston, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson.

VA grant funds UNO/UNMC research into COPD

UNMC’s Debra Romberger, M.D., and UNO’s Jenna Yentes, Ph.D., team to work on study.

Aug 13, 2019

From left, Debra Romberger, M.D., and Jenna Yentes, Ph.D.

UNMC for the record

Card access migration scheduled for this weekend is canceled, and other news and notes from the UNMC community.

Aug 9, 2019

Roberta Kroeger

Science Cafe explores possibility of HIV cure

Howard Gendelman, M.D., is featured speaker at Aug. 13 event.

Aug 9, 2019

Howard Gendelman, M.D.