Research
Becoming a world leader in biopreparedness also meant becoming a world leader in biopreparedness research.
The GCHS has laser-focused existing work by our leading scientists in fields like chemical weapons, drug discovery and public health. We’ve taken advantage of unique opportunities offered by access to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit and its world-class team. And we’ve established valuable partnerships with other world leaders and the U.S. military.
Through our partnerships and preparation, the Global Center for Health Security is forging advances in biopreparedness and in moving critical, life-saving discoveries out of the lab and into clinical trials.
Our Research Capabilities
Our capabilities include a relationship with the U.S. military for research into chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threat.
We offer wide-ranging health security research programs:
- Special pathogens
- A drug development pipeline
- Staphylococcal infections
- Biopreparedness
- Bioinformatic
We are using our expertise to fight Highly Hazardous Communicable Diseases where they start and save lives around the world and at home. The Global Center for Health Security is creating a network to prepare for and respond to high-consequence infections. This work includes a clinical trials network and rapid exchange of information during international pandemics, as well as improving the treatment and survival of sepsis in African and Asia. We work together on numerous biopreparedness research efforts, from basic science to safe air evacuations – including the evaluation of the United States Air Mobility Command's Transport Isolation System.
Research Partners
National Strategic Research Institute
The National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska is one of only 13 U.S. Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Centers in the nation. As such, the National Strategic Research Institute has been tasked with specific emphases: Nebraska has the lone University Affiliated Research Center entrusted by the military to work on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. We work together on numerous biopreparedness research efforts, from basic science to safe air evacuations – including the evaluation of the United States Air Mobility Command's Transport Isolation System.
Learn MoreNebraska Drug Discovery & Development Pipeline
This National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) project aims to turn the University of Nebraska into what one UNMC scientist calls “a virtual pharmaceutical company.” The Defense Health Agency, in collaboration with Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, has tasked the National Strategic Research Institute with moving potential drug candidates toward clinical trials – and funded the effort with a five-year, $11 million grant titled the Nebraska Drug Development Pipeline.
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