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Nebraska State Student Nurse of the Year named
The Nebraska State Student Nurses’ Association has presented UNMC College of Nursing student Melinda Sonderup with the Nebraska State Student Nurse of the Year Award.
Mar 5, 2004
UNMC researcher featured in The New England Journal of Medicine
A UNMC researcher is featured in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. In the NEJM’s March 4 Perspective column, Stephen Rennard, M.D., Larson Professor of Medicine, UNMC Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, outlines the need to increase awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and highlights a promising tool in diagnosing and managing patients with COPD.
Mar 4, 2004
UNMC dental researcher receives Parkinson’s disease grant
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has awarded Kalipada Pahan, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry, UNMC College of Dentistry, a two-year, $125,000 grant to study the effectiveness of a drug to stop the destruction of cells in mouse models with Parkinson’s disease.
Mar 4, 2004
Unique mice attract Japanese researcher
Jun-ichi Sakiyama, Ph.D., recently traveled to UNMC to study the world’s only existing genetically engineered mouse strain without the Hoxb6 gene. Sakiyama is interested in whether the Hoxb6 gene plays a crucial role in lung development, an area he has been studying in the division of biological science at Nagoya University in Japan.
Mar 3, 2004
Dental Day benefits 121 Nebraska students
Eight-year-old Cody Senyard was frightened. It was the first time he’d attended the UNMC College of Dentistry’s Dental Day and, even with his mom by his side, the Hastings boy was scared. Senyard and 120 other children from Hastings, Harvard, Norfolk and Lexington recently received oral health care from 350 dental and dental hygiene students.
Mar 2, 2004
Regents approve purchase of dental simulators, chairs
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents Saturday approved the purchase of new simulation lab equipment and dental chairs at the UNMC College of Dentistry for $2.5 million.
Mar 1, 2004
Dr. Persidsky named recipient of Gilmore award
When Yuri Persidsky, M.D., Ph.D., came to UNMC in 1994, he had an idea to develop a small animal model to study HIV in the brain. Nearly a decade later, the severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mouse model for HIV-1 infection of the brain that Dr. Persidsky developed with Howard Gendelman, M.D., has become recognized in the scientific community on several fronts.
Mar 1, 2004
UNMC second quarter research grants total $9.7 million
UNMC received $9.7 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2003-2004. The second quarter included the months of October, November and December.
Mar 1, 2004
UNMC creates Office of Post-Doctoral Education
In February 2003, Scientist journal published survey results that placed UNMC in the nation’s top 10 institutions for “Best Places to Work for Postdocs.” That reputation is about to get even better when the university opens the Office of Post-Doctoral Education – a new administrative department dedicated to the development and welfare of post-doctorate researchers.
Feb 27, 2004
UNMC awarded $890,000 for mantle cell lymphoma
UNMC will receive a three-year grant totaling $890,000 to help hunt for clues to cure and better treat a rare form of blood cancer, mantle cell lymphoma.
Feb 26, 2004