Ryan Shaw

Lab testing for Ebola requires thinking ‘outside the box’

Professionals in laboratories across the UNMC campus are on the front line in helping physicians get the information they need to treat Ebola patients.

Feb 13, 2015

Research leads to best practices in fight against highly infectious diseases

Designed to handle everything from smallpox and SARS to avian influenza and Ebola, UNMC’s biocontainment unit is staffed by more than 40 highly trained professionals who have special training in disaster management, cardiac life support and bioterrorism.

Feb 13, 2015

Cheryl Rand, RN, (left) assists Jean Bellinghausen, respiratory therapist, on how a two-person team dons and doffs personal protective equipment. This is one of many best practices developed by UNMC’s biocontainment unit staff to be adopted as a national best practice.

Sticky cells are a sticky issue

Tight junctions and migrations of epithelial cells are under study in the College of Dentistry.

Feb 13, 2015

James Wahl, Ph.D., and dental student Elizabeth Sand.

UNMC sets the gold standard for Ebola care

The 2014 Ebola outbreak has been one of the most devastating public health crises in recent history.

Feb 13, 2015

UNMC research team working on vaccine for Ebola virus

A UNMC research team has been working on one phase of a concerted U.S. effort to develop a vaccine for the Ebola virus, which has infected more than 21,000 people in West Africa and killed more than 8,600 people.

Feb 13, 2015

James Talmadge, Ph.D.

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Jan 10, 2015

Open forums set for two candidates for internal medicine chair

The search committee for the chair of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine continues to be active and has advanced two candidates for consideration.

Nov 21, 2014

UNMC develops clinical/academic affiliation with Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital

The University of Nebraska Medical Center and its clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine, have entered into an agreement with Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital to provide physician and academic services at the new Madonna rehabilitation and long-term care hospital being built west of Village Pointe in Omaha.

Nov 21, 2014

COM Student of the Month – Andrea Langeveld, third-year medical student

Andrea Langeveld was born in Ohio but grew up in Utah. growing up, she wanted to be a writer or a teacher, and it wasn’t until high school that she fell in love with science.

Nov 21, 2014

Andrea Langeveld

Doing what he loves

As a child, Jason Ray was so fascinated with electricity that his parents encouraged him to pursue it as a career.

Nov 13, 2014

Jason Ray
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