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Study to help HIV-infected women live normal lives

Some antiretroviral therapies used in sub-Saharan Africa are found to not work well with contraceptives.

Aug 20, 2015

Kim Scarsi, Pharm.D., left, with her team in Uganda.

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.

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.

COBRE renewal expands nanothechnology research

UNMC researcher Tatiana Bronich, Ph.D., is the principal investigator on the grant. Dr. Bronich is the Parke-Davis Professor in Pharmaceutics, UNMC College of Pharmacy, and co-director of the Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine.

Feb 13, 2015

Tatiana Bronich, Ph.D.

Cellular signaling is focus of COBRE

To Keith Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Nebraska Center for Cellular Signaling (NCCS) in the College of Dentistry, reaching phase III status, with a $4.9 million grant renewal, means the opportunity to turn a corner.

Feb 13, 2015

Keith Johnson, Ph.D.