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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.

UNMC, Nebraska Medicine share Ebola expertise through online courses

UNMC and its primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine, are sharing Ebola patient care and treatment best practices with hospital staff around the world through online education courses.

Feb 13, 2015

The scientist and his chicken soup

Every time cold season rolls around, so do home remedies, including Stephen Rennard, M.D., and his famous study of chicken soup.

Feb 13, 2015

Stephen Rennard, M.D., and his wife Barbara, collaborated on a study of her grandmother’s chicken soup recipe.

Debra Romberger, M.D., named internal medicine chair for UNMC

25-year UNMC physician selected to manage largest department in College of Medicine

Feb 13, 2015

Debra Romberger, M.D.

How Ebola works

Get inside the killer virus and learn how it succeeds in disrupting the immune system.

Feb 13, 2015

An electron micrograph (25,000x magnification) of Ebola virus particles (green) attached to, and budding from, an infected cell (blue). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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.

COBREs build centers of excellence

Research centers of excellence develop with the help of grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Feb 13, 2015

Storm chaser to headline 2015 Nebraska Science Festival

Reed Timmer will kick off the biggest science festival in Nebraska in April.

Feb 13, 2015

Reed Timmer headlines the 2015 Nebraska Science Festival.

Time travel with a disease detective

His first time in Africa, Dr. Khan’s job was to identify patient zero and attempt to determine the natural reservoir – from which the disease had come. He had one major drawback – he couldn’t speak French and would need an interpreter. Fortunately, two other teammates knew the language.

Feb 13, 2015

Ali S. Khan, M.D., M.P.H., (center) in this 1995 photo reviews information gathered by medical students who visited households in the Kikwit area to track people who have Ebola. (Photo courtesy of NOVA and WGBH Boston.)

Dr. Smith’s COBRE grant renewed for phase 3; projects being considered

Shelley Smith, Ph.D., director of developmental neuroscience at UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute and professor of pediatrics, recently learned her COBRE grant, “The Molecular Basis of Neurosensory Systems” was renewed for five years by the National Institutes of Health.

Feb 13, 2015

Shelley Smith, Ph.D.