Press Release

UNMC study aims to improve pancreatic cancer therapies

Study is published in Cancer Cell, a leading cancer research journal

Jul 31, 2017

Pankaj Singh, Ph.D

UNMC Cancer Researcher Receives $100,000 Grant

Funding from St. Baldrick’s Foundation goes to study potential therapies for acute myeloid leukemia

Jul 31, 2017

Gov. Ricketts to participate in bike ride for pediatric mental health

Break the Cycle event on July 29-30 will cover 150 miles on Omaha bike trails

Jul 21, 2017

Gov. Pete Ricketts

UNMC/UNL team develops growth plate model where cells grow, communicate

Team achieves first step in quest to begin search for new ways to treat growth plate disorders.

Jul 17, 2017

Nebraska’s water is topic of July 18 Omaha Science Cafe

Alan Kolok, Ph.D., a professor of biology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, will discuss what is found in the rivers, lakes and streams of Nebraska at the next Omaha Science Café at 7 p.m. on July 18 at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. As director of the Nebraska Watershed Network at UNO, […]

Jul 11, 2017

Great Plains IDeA-CTR announces scholar grant recipients

Three scholars are from UNMC, fourth is from Boys Town National Research Hospital

Jun 28, 2017

Deepta Ghate, M.D., from the UNMC Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, is one of the scholar grant awardees.

UNMC Internet support program focuses on women with new breast cancer diagnosis

Study will form the basis for a future larger study to compare one group of women using the program to a group who don’t use it.

Jun 27, 2017

Robin Lally, Ph.D.

Fremont organization donates $25,000 to help fund Alzheimer’s research at UNMC

Collaboration has contributed more than $100,000 over past five years

Jun 26, 2017

Marv Welstead, 96, has raised more than $100,000 over the past five years for Alzheimer's research at UNMC. His wife, Jean, died of Alzheimer's in 2009. Here Welstead is seen as he demonstrates the driving simulator in 2016 in the Mind and Brain Health Labs at UNMC.

Rebecca Oberley-Deegan, Ph.D., receives Maurer Scientific Achievement Award

Recognized for her research aimed at finding ways to protect normal tissues in the body from radiation damage when treating prostate cancer or cancer of anus.

Jun 23, 2017

Michael Zaruba, M.D., receives Outstanding Preceptor Award

Michael Zaruba, M.D., received the Marion D. and Theodore Koefoot, Jr., M.D., Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine award at the annual University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Family Medicine banquet. Dr. Zaruba practices at Auburn Family Health Clinic in Auburn, Neb. "The department of family medicine is proud to recognize Dr. Zaruba with […]

Jun 22, 2017