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Goodbye, orange and green: Updated design coming soon to UNMC website
The updated look for UNMC’s website has been completed — check out the look of the new pages.
Dec 20, 2013

Dr. Vose to be president of American Society of Clinical Oncology
Julie Vose, M.D., will start one-year term in June 2015.
Dec 20, 2013

Singers, bell choir provide ‘Music as Medicine’ today
Performance by Central High School group begins at noon.
Dec 19, 2013
Trip to Vietnam yields promising collaboration
In memory of their friend Paul Tran, M.D., his colleagues are reaching across borders to enhance medical education and care.
Dec 19, 2013

Lookin’ at U – Mallory Car
Public relations expert brings communication skills to the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
Dec 19, 2013

There’s still time to donate in campus food drive
Donations will support the Food Bank for the Heartland.
Dec 19, 2013
Industry-sponsored contracts
The following industry-sponsored contracts also were received. Here is more information on clinical trials enrolling patients at UNMC.
Lori Maness-Harris, M.D., internal medicine – oncology/hematology, is the UNMC lead for a study on the effectiveness of a new antibody-drug conjugate that targets a cell surface marker on B-cell malignancies. Dr. Maness Harris will serve as the sole Nebraska site for this study, which is currently recruiting participants.
Dec 19, 2013
Fourth annual UNMC Skate-a-thon to raise funds for Parkinson’s research
Previous three Skate-a-thons have raised total of $110,000
Dec 19, 2013
From common colds to deadly lung diseases, one protein plays key role
Joe Sisson, M.D., a University of Nebraska Medical Center clinician-scientist, was part of an international team of researchers that has zeroed in on a protein that plays a key role in many lung-related ailments, from seasonal coughing and hacking to more serious diseases such as MRSA infections and cystic fibrosis.
Dec 18, 2013

Research highlights
The following awards were received by College of Medicine faculty during the month of October. These 23 new awards represent more than $10.3 million in new funding to UNMC.
Dec 18, 2013
