Research and Development Committee
The Research and Development (R&D) Committee handles a variety of funding opportunities for faculty and administers the current Bridge Funding program. They are also involved in student research opportunities, including the Medical Student Summer Research Program. Dr. Howard Fox, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Development, is the Chairperson for this committee.
Committee Chair and Co-Chair
Roslyn B. Mannon, MD
Vice Chair of Research, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor, Division of Nephrology
Nephrology Associate Chief of Research
Chair, Research and Development Committee
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Christopher D. Conrady, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Co-Chair, Research and Development Committee
Howard Fox, MD, PhD
Senior Associate Dean of Research & Development
Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences
Committee Members
Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Vice Chair for Research, UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
Professor
Jesse L. Cox, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
John Dickinson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UNMC Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Associate Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program
Kate Hyde, PhD
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Associate Director for Shared Resources, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Brian Lowes, MD, PhD
William D. Angle Professor of Cardiology
Section Chief of Heart Failure, UNMC Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor, UNMC Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program
Bethany Lowndes, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Human Factors, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences
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Ashok Mudgapalli, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy
Director, UNMC Research IT Office (RITO)
Kaushik P. Patel, PhD
A. Ross McIntyre Professor of Physiology
Professor, UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Gurudutt Pendyala, PhD
Robert Lieberman Endowed Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Adjunct Professor, UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy
Ex Officio
Kenneth W. Bayles, PhD
Professor, UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vice Chancellor for Research, UNMC
Founding Director, Center for Staphylococcal Research
Babu Guda, PhD
Professor, Vice Chair for Bioinformatics Research & Training, UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy
Chief Bioinformatics & Research Computing Officer, UNMC Vice Chancellor for Research Office
Founding Director, UNMC Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Core
Co-Director, UNO & UNMC Center for Biomedical Informatics Research & Innovation
Director, Great Plains IDeA-CTR Biomedical Informatics & Cyberinfrastructure Core
Russell McCulloh, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, UNMC
Vice President for Research, Nebraska Medicine
Professor, UNMC Division of Biomedical Informatics and Health System Sciences
Professor, UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases
Director of Clinical and Translational Research Operations, Children’s Nebraska
