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Research Studies

Two common mental illness meds could pose health risk for certain individuals

Combined UNMC, Vanderbilt research team reports results in leading scientific journal

Nov 14, 2017

Zeljka Korade, D.V.M., Ph.D. (left), and Karoly Mirnics, M.D., Ph.D.

Research suggests potential treatment for autism, intellectual disability

Findings published in Nature Neuroscience online issue

Nov 10, 2017

Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D.

UNMC researcher studying nanofiber sutures to prevent surgical site infections

$1.3 million NIH grant seeks to determine if vitamin D can produce infection-fighting peptide

Nov 6, 2017

Jingwei Xie, Ph.D.

UNMC hosting largest international study on orthostatic tremor

Movement disorder makes people feel like they are going to fall down when they are standing

Sep 28, 2017

Diego Torres-Russotto, M.D.

Molecular Psychiatry journal publishes results of UNMC/Vanderbilt study

Combination of infection, diabetes in mother could predispose children to psychiatric disorders in later life

Sep 26, 2017

Karoly Mirnics, M.D., Ph.D.

UNMC study shows probiotics prevent sepsis in infants

Findings reported in Aug. 16 issue of Nature

Aug 16, 2017

Dr. Pinaki Panigrahi monitors a baby's progress in a clinical trial in India.

UNMC study aims to improve pancreatic cancer therapies

Study is published in Cancer Cell, a leading cancer research journal

Jul 31, 2017

Pankaj Singh, Ph.D

Great Plains IDeA-CTR announces scholar grant recipients

Three scholars are from UNMC, fourth is from Boys Town National Research Hospital

Jun 28, 2017

Deepta Ghate, M.D., from the UNMC Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, is one of the scholar grant awardees.

Fremont organization donates $25,000 to help fund Alzheimer’s research at UNMC

Collaboration has contributed more than $100,000 over past five years

Jun 26, 2017

Marv Welstead, 96, has raised more than $100,000 over the past five years for Alzheimer's research at UNMC. His wife, Jean, died of Alzheimer's in 2009. Here Welstead is seen as he demonstrates the driving simulator in 2016 in the Mind and Brain Health Labs at UNMC.

UNMC participating in aspirin study on patients with vascular disease

Electronic health records will play key role in study

Mar 31, 2017

James Campbell, M.D., is one of the principal investigators for UNMC. He is joined by James McClay, M.D.