College of Medicine

CS-CASH Pilot Grant Program announces funding

UNMC investigator Bryant England, M.D., among award recipients.

Dec 26, 2017

Bryant England, M.D., assistant professor, UNMC Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, was one of the funded investigators.

App recognizes fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Munroe-Meyer Institute’s Omar Rahman, M.D., helped biotech company FDNA, Inc., train artificial intelligence software.

Dec 21, 2017

Omar Rahman, M.D.

Remembering Jack Matoole, M.D.

Colleagues pay tribute to “legendary medical educator.”

Dec 21, 2017

Robotic tech company receives Series B funding

Virtual Incision Corporation has raised $18 million to support its next-generation miniaturized robotically assisted surgical device.

Dec 20, 2017

From left, Shane Farritor, Ph.D., Virtual Incision's co-founder and chief technology officer, and Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D., chief of minimally invasive surgery at UNMC and co-founder and chief medical officer of Virtual Incision

FDA staff tours UNMC’s orthopaedic implant lab

Ten FDA implant reviewers visited Omaha earlier this month.

Dec 15, 2017

Hani Haider, Ph.D., professor and director of UNMC's Biomechanics and Advanced Surgical Technologies Laboratory, shows FDA visitors wear testing equipment.

Trace Adkins to perform at 2018 Cattlemen’s Ball

Event will be held in Hebron on June 2.

Dec 14, 2017

Trace Adkins

New faculty spotlight: Leah Cook, Ph.D.

Dr. Cook joins the UNMC Department of Pathology & Microbiology and the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Dec 13, 2017

Leah Cook, Ph.D.

MMI’s Kruger sees Gold U as a team award

Physical therapist found a home at UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute.

Dec 13, 2017

Ann Kruger

Healthy parent/teen pairs needed for eye study

Study results may help enable the design of improved glaucoma treatments, specifically for children.

Dec 11, 2017

The Truhlsen Eye Institute

Lungs4Life donates to cancer center

Nonprofit organization is dedicated to raising funds for lung cancer research.

Dec 11, 2017

On Thursday, Dec. 7, Lungs4Life presented a $27,500 check to lung cancer specialists Drs. Alissa Marr and Apar Kishor Ganti for lung cancer research at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Dr. Marr is holding the check on the right, while Dr. Ganti is in the white shirt to the right of Dr. Marr. They are joined by several Nebraska Medicine lung cancer survivors and Lungs4Life board members.