InterCOM

Time out with T.O. – A unique summer camp

Participants come from all over the world to attend “Staph Camp” at UNMC.

Aug 22, 2019

Camp participants included: (standing left-right) - Bibek Subedi, Kansas State University, Paul Fey, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Tianwei Shen, University of Washington, Marat Sadykov, UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Vinai Thomas, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Jessica Gilbertie, D.V.M., North Carolina State University, Danai Etter, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Camilla Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Ken Bayles, Ph.D., UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology; (sitting left to right) -- Lauren Hammond, University of South Florida, Anna Sommer, Robert Koch Institute-Berlin, Catherine Leasure, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Robert Ulrich, M.D., New York University School of Medicine, and Brandon Anjuwon-Foster, National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Attendees not pictured included: Shahad Alqahtani, Georgetown University, Dina Altwiley, University of Bristol, Bristol UK, and Christine Livingston, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson.

Carritt named director of rural health initiatives

Carritt will work with UNMC’s rural partners to enhance the university’s impact across the state.

Aug 20, 2019

Nicole Carritt

Dr. Cates named vice chair of clinical services for psychiatry

David Cates, Ph.D., also serves as Nebraska Medicine’s director of behavioral health.

Aug 19, 2019

David Cates, Ph.D.

Susan Fritz, Ph.D., installed as interim NU president

Dr. Fritz is the first woman to lead the University of Nebraska system.

Aug 19, 2019

Susan Fritz, Ph.D., center, at the Board of Regents meeting

Nebraska Medical Center earns chest pain award

The work of the chest pain team recently was featured in an Omaha World-Herald column.

Aug 15, 2019

Mary Kisicki

State, UNMC leaders announce addiction fellowship

Program aims to provide patients and families access to addiction treatment training specialists across the state.

Aug 14, 2019

From left, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., Ken Zoucha, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and director of the addiction division at UNMC, Gov. Pete Ricketts and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson at Monday's press conference.

Genome editing recipe published in Nature Protocols

Paper explains how to more easily create genetically engineered mice.

Aug 7, 2019

From left, Masato Ohtsuka, Ph.D., of Tokai University in Japan and UNMC's Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Ph.D.

Fight to prevent spread of deadly fungal infection

CBS News featured med center’s Mark Rupp, M.D., as it explored the easy-to-spread Candida auris fungus.

Aug 6, 2019

Mark Rupp, M.D.

Davis Global Center opening in several months

Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center will open in mid-fall.

Aug 6, 2019

An artist's rendition of the Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center

Omaha startup company receives $750,000 matching federal grant

Project will form university/community partnership to develop medical device pipeline

Aug 1, 2019

Rod Markin, M.D., Ph.D. (left), and Joe Runge head the leadership team for UNeTech.