Business & Finance
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University of Nebraska Medical Center

We are creating connections between university technology and startups, providing a coaching environment for entrepreneurs that will bring breakthroughs to health care services and patients.

About Business Development

Rod Markin, MD, PhD., leads UNMC's business development as associate vice chancellor and executive director of UNeTech, Omaha’s only university-affiliated entrepreneurial support organization. He also is vice president of business development for Nebraska Medicine.

Rodney Markin, MD, PhD

Consulting Services

With a deep bench of hundreds of faculty physicians and faculty scientists, we enable a range of consulting services. Requests for clinical services are referred to Nebraska Medicine.

UNeTech: Turning Ideas Into Impact

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UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, at right, sits down with Rod Markin, left, and Joe Runge for a show-and-tell and conversation about the UNeTech Institute’s work.

UNeTech video transcript

UNeTech Institute

Nicholas Lorenzo, MD
“UNeTech played a key role in helping to bring our first UNMC technology-based product, MicroWash, to the market. They have been a key partner from Day 1, with the goal of improving health care locally, nationally and eventually globally.”

Nicholas Lorenzo, MD, MHCM, CPE, FAAPL
Chairman and CEO, University Medical Devices Inc.

Michael Cassling
“The work that UNeTech is doing to support startups is incredibly valuable to our workforce, our community and the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem, especially in the health care space. From matching researchers and inventors to investors and business leaders, UNeTech is removing critical barriers to help innovators get beyond the incubator phase and ready to make an impact.”

Michael Cassling
Executive Chairman, CQuence Health

Business Development News

Jason Johanning, MD, UNMC professor of surgery and medical director of the VA Surgery Quality Improvement Program, and collaborator , and collaborator Daniel Hall, MD.

UNeTech Startup Wins Award

Jason Johanning, MD, UNMC professor of surgery and medical director of the VA Surgery Quality Improvement Program, received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award through the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission.

UNMC's CORE building under construction .

Construction Continues on CORE Building

Exterior glass work, followed by installation of the roof are in progress on UNMC's CORE Building in the new Edge District just west of campus. The building will promote collaboration among startup founders, industry leaders, UNMC faculty, scientists and inventors. Completion is expected in late summer 2026.

Photo by Ani Schutz for Silicon Prairie News of interior of the Catalyst building, showing a sleek, urban environment in a historic rehabbed steelworks building.

Catalyst Opens Doors to Tenants

This Silicon Prairie News report updates the Catalyst building progress in the Edge District on the west side of UNMC and that includes the new CORE building. Catalyst is a 170,000-square-foot co-working space designed to foster collaboration among startups and entrepreneurs.