Research

Podcast highlights UNMC’s work in testing COVID-19 treatment

New ‘Leading Nebraska’ episode features Andre Kalil, MD.

Dec 31, 2020

Andre Kalil, MD

UNMC participating in COVID-19 vaccine study

Diana Florescu, MD, infectious diseases specialist, is leading the Phase 3 clinical trial at UNMC, which plans to enroll 1,000.

Dec 30, 2020

Graduating student finds passion in medical research

Sumit Kar wants to lead medical research that advances diagnosis and improves patient care.

Dec 17, 2020

Sumit Kar

Dr. Plewes is Pathway to Independence Awardee

Award recognizes early-career postdocs for their contributions to research.

Dec 8, 2020

Michele Plewes, PhD

UNMC faculty speak at Alzheimer’s Foundation conference

Special guest speaker Mehmet Oz, MD, will share personal family story at free virtal event on Dec 8.

Dec 4, 2020

From left, Matthew Rizzo, MD, Howard Fox, MD, PhD, and Daniel Murman, MD, will speak at the Alzheimer's Foundation of America virtual event.

‘Designer’ mice blueprints to aid COVID-19 research

UNMC team engineer mice to help researchers fight pandemic.

Dec 3, 2020

Rolen Quadros, UNMC research technologist, and Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, PhD

Registration open for virtual Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum

Faculty reviewers also needed for Feb. 27 event.

Nov 30, 2020

Grant to help identify, stop emerging animal-to-human infectious diseases

More than 70 percent of emerging infectious diseases originate from animals

Nov 25, 2020

David Brett-Major, MD, MPH

Researchers explore protein to ramp up COVID-19 antigens’ impact

UN-L, UNMC collaboration also looks at how SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the immunes system.

Nov 23, 2020

Thomas Petro, PhD

Research stalwart Janet Davis to retire

Davis will retire on Nov. 30 from the Clinical Research Center.

Nov 23, 2020

Janet Davis