Research

UNMC’s Specialty Care Clinic part of ‘landmark’ HIV study

Dozens of local patients were enrolled in the national study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sep 12, 2023

Sara Bares, MD

NSRI, NU awarded $24.5 million Defense Health Agency contract

Researchers from UNMC and UNL will develop prophylactic protections for acute radiation syndrome.

Sep 11, 2023

From left, David Berkowitz, PhD, co-principal investigator and Willa Cather Professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Maj. Gen. USAF (Ret.) Rick Evans, National Strategic Research Institute executive director, and Ken Bayles, PhD, co-principal investigator and UNMC vice chancellor for research

Nursing’s Dr. Alonso, team tackle groundbreaking exercise research

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is funding the project working with certain heart failure patients.

Sep 8, 2023

Windy Alonso, PhD

Fellow of the month, September 2023

Peter Pellegrino, MD, PhD, is a pain medicine fellow in the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology.

Sep 6, 2023

Peter Pellegrino, MD, PhD

Dr. Yeh named to research role in ophthalmology

Steven Yeh, MD, has been named vice chairman of clinical and translational research in the UNMC Department of Ophthalmology.

Sep 6, 2023

Steven Yeh, MD

Medical research highlights, September 2023

The UNMC College of Medicine received grant and funding awards representing more than $1.1 million in new funding in July.

Sep 6, 2023

Micah Schott, PhD

COM employee of the month, September 2023

Dr. Fashina is an ophthalmic clinical research supervisor.

Sep 6, 2023

Tolulope Fashina, MD

Med center researchers publish breast cancer article in Human Genomics

The study delved into data on cancer mutations from a cohort of 554 regional breast cancer patients.

Sep 6, 2023

Babu Guda, PhD, professor and vice chair of the UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Kenneth Cowan, MD, PhD, director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

Students present summer research projects at STAR fellowship program closing ceremony

The UNMC Department of Anesthesiology held a closing ceremony Aug. 11 for participants of the third annual Summer Training in Anesthesia Research (STAR) Fellowship. The program is designed for high school (HSTAR), undergraduate (USTAR) and medical (MSTAR) students with an interest in an academic career in research.  For 10 weeks, participants conducted graduate-level research with […]

Aug 31, 2023

STAR fellow Mark Bausch gives his presentation during the closing event.

Researcher studies link between pesticide use and ADHD

Gurudutt Pendyala, PhD, Robert Lieberman Professor in the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology, received funding to research early life exposure to pyrethroids, a class of pesticides most commonly used in commercial agriculture.

Aug 31, 2023

Gurudutt Pendyala, PhD