Research

Dr. Wathen new director of comparative medicine

Asheley Wathen, DVM, will join UNMC on Jan. 2.

Dec 29, 2023

Asheley Wathen, DVM

Attenuation of signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s in a living animal

UNMC-led research team publishes NIH-funded study in noted journal.

Dec 27, 2023

From top left clockwise, study authors include Howard Gendelman, MD; Lee Mosley, PhD; Jatin Macchi, PhD; and Pravin Yeapuri, PhD

UNMC’s famous chicken soup study circles the globe

The latest news coverage of the oft-covered research comes from Poland and Newsweek Polska.

Dec 26, 2023

UNMC researcher Stephen Rennard, MD, and co-investigator, wife Barbara Rennard, in the lab, er kitchen, with research subject, aka chicken soup. The couple led publication of a study titled, "Chicken Soup Inhibits Neutrophil Chemotaxis In Vitro."

Remembering Dave Daughton, smoking cessation expert

Daughton, a retired pulmonary medicine researcher and international smoking cessation expert, died Dec. 5.

Dec 12, 2023

David Daughton

Periodontics residents receive national research honors

Paula Cohen Schlemmer, DMD, and Joyce Lee, DDS, were honored at the American Academy of Periodontology Annual Session.

Dec 12, 2023

Paula Cohen Schlemmer, DMD, and Joyce Lee, DDS

Medical research highlights, December 2023

The UNMC College of Medicine received grant and funding awards representing more than $2.6 million in new funding in October.

Dec 8, 2023

Ken Bayles, PhD

CORE Building receives design review approval

The administrative building and research facility will be the cornerstone of UNMC’s new Saddle Creek Campus.

Dec 4, 2023

NSRI receives $5 million for defense threat reduction work

UNMC’s Eric Carnes, PhD, is among those joining the work through NU’s National Strategic Research Institute.

Nov 28, 2023

The new funding for the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska allows additional NU researchers to join the team developing projects to counter weapons of mass destruction, including NSRI Fellow Eric Carnes, PhD, an associate professor in the UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health.

Dr. Herzog honored with young investigator award

Kaylee Herzog, PhD, received the award from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Nov 21, 2023

Kaylee Herzog, PhD

Postdoctoral Education honors two with awards

Ophthalmology’s Murali Subramani, PhD, received the 2023 Excellence in Research Award.

Nov 16, 2023

Murali Subramani, PhD, delivers his presentation at the Nov. 3 Postdoctoral Education Annual Event.