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Surinder Batra, Ph.D., professor and chairman of biochemistry and molecular biology, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Missouri Health System’s Health Science Research Day on Nov. 14 and the 75th Annual Congress of the Japan Surgical Association on Nov. 22. Dr. Batra was named UNMC’s seventh Scientist Laureate in 2012.
Nov 13, 2013
Remembering – Dr. Cal Davis
John Calvin Davis III, M.D., an internal medicine faculty member at UNMC from 1961-1997, died Oct. 29 in Estes Park, Colo., following a prolonged illness related to heart failure. He was 82.
Nov 13, 2013
Truhlsens honored as outstanding philanthropists
The Association of Fundraising Professionals Nebraska Chapter honored Stan Truhlsen, M.D., and his wife Dottie as Outstanding Philanthropists for the state of Nebraska.
The Truhlsens were honored Nov. 12 — National Philanthropy Day — for their generous commitment to improving access to the arts and their work in health care, including the creation of the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute at UNMC.
Nov 13, 2013
UNMC one of four institutions selected for primary care pilot project
The University of Nebraska Medical Center has been selected as one of four institutions to participate in a pilot program designed to transform the way resident physicians are trained in primary care.
Nov 13, 2013
UNMC lands $4.4 million grant to study emphysema
The University of Nebraska Medical Center will lead a clinical research study that will evaluate if a common, over-the-counter drug has potential to reverse the devastating effects of emphysema.
Nov 13, 2013
UNMC, Omaha VA researchers to study if vitamin D prevents diabetes
The Department of Veterans Affairs Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System and UNMC are taking part in the first definitive, large-scale clinical trial to investigate if a vitamin D supplement helps prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in adults who have prediabetes and at high risk of developing diabetes.
Nov 13, 2013
UNMC researchers work to improve outcomes of lymphoma patients
Findings were published in a leading oncology journal this month.
Nov 13, 2013
UNMC study seeks to improve outcomes for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
UNMC researchers have discovered that patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma don’t respond well to the standard drug therapy used to treat this type of cancer if they have high levels of a gene called STAT3.
The findings are published in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the medical journal of the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
Nov 13, 2013
New faculty spotlight – Paras Mishra, Ph.D.
Dr. Mishra aims at a novel therapeutic target for diabetes and diabetes-mediated heart failure.
Nov 13, 2013
UNMC partners with Chinese university, hospital for glaucoma study
A UNMC ophthalmology research team is partnering with a Chinese university and hospital in a study aimed at improving understanding of glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the United States and worldwide.
Nov 13, 2013
