Awards & Lectureships
A. Ross McIntyre, MD, served as chair of UNMC's then-named Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from 1935 to 1967.
The UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology offers two lectureships and a student award each year.
A. Ross McIntyre Seminar Series
This lecture series is held annually in honor of A. Ross McIntyre, MD, PhD, who served as professor and chair of UNMC's then-named Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from 1935-67.
The lectureship features highly accomplished, established investigators who have made meritorious and sustained contributions to areas broadly related to cardiovascular and/or renal research. Investigators may be engaged in basic, clinical or translational research.
Two to three lecturers are chosen each year after being nominated by tenure-track faculty of the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology. Nominations are reviewed by the lecture series committee.
Dr. McIntyre was a well-known pharmacologist who was credited with developing a new adjunct for general anesthesia. He was the first to use curare, a poison used by natives in the Amazon River region, as an aide to anesthesia. He also developed graduate programs that eventually led to the granting of a master’s degree and Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology.
The lectureship, established in 1972, is made possible by the generous support of Dr. Donald McIntyre and the McIntyre family.
Alice L. Cummings Award in Physiology
This annual honor is given to outstanding students in the area of Physiology. The award is endowed by the family of Alice L. Cummings, a Department of Physiology staff member who died in a car accident on her way to work in 1981. She was administrative assistant for Joseph P. Gilmore, PhD, then-chair of the department.
Nominations are accepted from faculty each year in February. The award is announced by March 15 each year and is presented in May. The award includes a cash prize.
Eligible students include PhD, MD, MD/PhD or MS students performing research and working with a mentor in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology or in the Integrative Physiology & Molecular Medicine doctoral program and is within one year before or after their dissertation defense date. A defense date is not applicable for MS students.
Pamela Carmines, PhD, Seminar on Renal Physiology
Pamela Carmines, PhD, served as a physiology professor and researcher and as executive associate dean of Graduate Studies at UNMC.
This annual lectureship was established in 2022 by the UNMC College of Medicine upon the retirement of Pamela Carmines, PhD. The lecturer chosen each year is a highly accomplished, established investigator who has made meritorious and sustained contributions to areas broadly related to renal research.
Dr. Carmines, who served as a professor in the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology and as executive associate dean of Graduate Studies at UNMC, was known as a devoted researcher, award-winning teacher and mentor to generations of UNMC students and faculty.
Nominations for the annual lectureship are solicited from faculty members. A committee selects one speaker per year.
This named lectureship is made possible by the generous support of the dean of College of Medicine.