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Cincinnati pediatric surgeon named CEO for Children's Hospital & Medical Center Richarad Azizkhan, M.D., surgeon in chief and senior vice president of surgical services at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, has been named CEO for Children's Hospital & Medical Center. The appointment is effective Oct. 19. In 2007, UNMC and Nebraska Medicine implemented an affiliation […]

Aug 24, 2015

Miriam McCann is August Gold U winner

Researchers rely on McCann, safety/compliance program manager in comparative medicine.

Aug 24, 2015

Mimi McCann

Insights: Welcome, UNMC students

As fall semester opens, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., greets next generation of health care professionals.

Aug 24, 2015

UNMC spinoff company to test H1N1 vaccine

If trial results are positive, Prommune, Inc. could offer vaccine to pig farmers by end of year.

Aug 21, 2015

Sam Sanderson, Ph.D.

UNMC for the record

Huntington’s Disease Patient and Caregiver Symposium set for Aug. 28, and other news and notes from the UNMC community.

Aug 21, 2015

On Aug. 11, a group from Project Purple and the Lincoln Marathon came to the Omaha campus for a check presentation for $52,000 to Tony Hollingsworth, Ph.D. (far right). Project Purple was the sole benefactor of funds from the Lincoln Marathon. Project Purple funds pancreatic cancer research, and with funds raised at the Lincoln Marathon, the organization will be funding a fellow in Dr. Hollingsworth’s lab. From left to right,  Kamiya Mehla, Ph.D., Nancy Sutton Moss, Glen Moss, Elli Zadina, Dino Verelli and Dr. Hollingsworth.

UNMC now on Instagram

Search for the account within the Instagram app with the handle @IAMUNMC.

Aug 21, 2015

Expanded construction will impact Lot 4 parkers

Work will impact parking from Aug. 24 to 28.

Aug 21, 2015

A wonderful collaboration

Ribbon is cut on new Health Science Education Complex.

Aug 21, 2015

From left, UNMC Student Senate President Andrew Shaw; Matt Schendt, Hausmann Construction; Kyle Meyer, Ph.D., dean of the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions; Juliann Sebastian, Ph.D., dean of the UNMC College of Nursing; UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.; University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds, Ph.D.; UNK Chancellor Douglas Kristensen, J.D.; Charlie Bicak, Ph.D., UNK senior vice chancellor of academic and student affairs; and Joe Lang, RDG Planning and Design. (Photo by Corbey R. Dorsey/UNK Communications)

WANTED Stents that work well for peripheral artery disease

a $3.5 million grant will help researchers understand why stents don’t work well for treating peripheral artery disease.

Aug 20, 2015

Stents of different designs used in peripheral artery disease are under study at UNMC.

Designer peptides to fight superbugs

Engineered peptides may soon be the therapy of choice against nasty bacterial and viral infections and even cancer.

Aug 20, 2015

Guangshun (Gus) Wang, Ph.D. starts with this structural template when he designs potent compounds against superbugs. The magenta-colored area is where positively charged amino acids are located for optimal bacterial recognition. The green area is where oil-like amino acids are situated to catch or grasp and stick to the superbug surface.