Press Release

UNMC Pharmacy Professor discusses pharmaceutical impacts due to flooding

Ally Dering-Anderson, Pharm.D., a clinical associate professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, discusses steps people can take if their medications are washed away because of flooding in their communities, concerns about insulin and insurance coverage of medication refills.   Here is a Dropbox link to video featuring Dr. […]

Mar 21, 2019

Research, Research Studies

UNMC research team plays key role in pancreatic cancer discovery

Drug combination appears to inhibit growth of cancer cells

Mar 20, 2019

Pankaj Singh, Ph.D.
Some of the flood devastation in Nebraska is obvious from this aerial photograph of farm property between Fremont and Omaha. (Photo by Zach Duysen)
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International expert in autism to head MMI’s integrated autism center

Courtney Burnette, Ph.D., to join UNMC after nine years at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Mar 18, 2019

Courtney Burnette, Ph.D., has been named director of the integrated Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders (iCASD) at UNMC's Munroe-Meyer Institute.

57th Annual Poison Prevention Week

Did you know the Nebraska Regional Poison Center as well as all poison centers across our nation never close?  In 1961, Congress established National Poison Prevention Week to raise awareness, reduce unintentional poisonings, and promote poison prevention. Each year, more than 2 million poisonings are reported to the nation’s poison centers, which can be reached […]

Mar 16, 2019

Education

128 UNMC medical students receive residency assignments

Forty percent of UNMC students are staying in Nebraska for their training, and 64 percent matched in primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology.

Mar 15, 2019

Daniel Arkfeld, class president, on Match Day
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UNMC/Nebraska Medicine oncologist to be inducted into prestigious royal college

Julie Vose, M.D., will be formally inducted in June into Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Mar 15, 2019

Julie Vose, M.D., is chief of the division of oncology/hematology in the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine.
Research

UNMC study featured in New England Journal of Medicine

Four-week course of antibiotics found to be just as effective in preventing TB in HIV patients as standard nine-month regimen

Mar 14, 2019

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Robert Lewis, Ph.D., honored as UNMC’s Scientist Laureate

23 other researchers, one organization also recognized at annual research awards ceremony

Mar 13, 2019

Robert Lewis, Ph.D., has been honored as UNMC's Scientist Laureate, the medical center's highest research honor.