Ware wins national tech transfer award
Mindy Ware, a paralegal at UNeMed since 2010, was selected among a national pool of nominees for the Excellence in Office Operations Award by TechPipeline.
“Mindy is a tremendous asset to UNeMed,” said Jason Nickla, JD, vice president and director of intellectual property at UNeMed, the technology transfer and commercialization office for UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “I admire her ability to transform potential bureaucratic messes into streamlined processes. Her straight-to-the-issue questions during meetings are always insightful.”
The honor was part of the TechPipeline Impact Awards, which recognizes the “exceptional individuals who elevate the field of technology transfer through their dedication, innovation, and expertise.” TechPipeline is one of the leading technology transfer industry organizations in the United States, providing guidance, training and best practices standards.
Tech Pipeline noted that Ware is the “lynchpin for the smooth and successful operation” of UNeMed.
“Mindy’s been at the core of many, many burdensome projects over the years that required great effort to achieve their success,” Nickla said, “and amazingly she still volunteers for new ones.”
In addition to managing and coordinating UNMC’s and UNO’s intellectual property docket, Ware led UNeMed’s move from paper to digital records, helped develop UNeMed’s innovative data tracking system and helped tech transfer offices everywhere with her improvements to a federal reporting program.
“I immediately feel better about any project Mindy is involved in,” said UNeMed President and CEO Michael Dixon, PhD. “because I know that’s something that will get done and done right. Honestly, it’s about time she’s getting recognition for her efforts. No one deserves this more than she does.”
-Charlie Litton, UNeMed
UNMC researchers contribute to guidelines article
Pooneh Bagher, PhD, an associate professor in the UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, and Timothy Sveeggen, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Bagher’s lab, contributed to a guidelines article for the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
The article provided comprehensive guidelines for the preparation and use of diets in experimental models of cardiometabolic syndrome, or CMS. The authors described CMS as encompassing a cluster of metabolic abnormalities, including obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and hypertension, that collectively increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
The article said a lack of reporting standards and variability in dietary composition, feeding duration and macronutrient content across studies hinder reproducibility assessment and translational impact evaluation. The standardized guidelines, the authors wrote, are meant for the consideration, preparation and use of diets in experimental models of CMS.
Read the article at this link. The article also was selected for a podcast hosted by the journal, available at this link.
-UNMC strategic communications
Nursing’s Dr. Hepburn chosen as research fellow
Kirsten Hepburn, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the UNMC College of Nursing, was selected as one of 24 fellows nationwide for the AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Program, part of the National Institutes of Health-funded AIM-AHEAD initiative.
Through the fellowship, she will receive advanced training in artificial intelligence and health data science to accelerate her work advancing maternal health equity through large-scale clinical data research.
This eight-month program culminates in a presentation at the national AIM-AHEAD conference in San Diego in July, where Dr. Hepburn will present her project findings.
-Greg Forbes, UNMC College of Nursing