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UNMC vice chancellor has harrowing experience in Haiti

For Rubens Pamies, M.D., vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean for graduate studies at UNMC, the past two weeks have been like a bad dream. Fortunately, this dream had a happy ending – thanks in large part to the efforts of the staff of U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson and several UNMC administrators.

Mar 8, 2004

Researchers to study teen smoking cessation model

Researchers at UNMC have been awarded a grant for nearly $2.2 million to study a smoking cessation model that addresses the unique challenges of teenage smokers. The four-year grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Services.

Mar 5, 2004

Nebraska State Student Nurse of the Year named

The Nebraska State Student Nurses’ Association has presented UNMC College of Nursing student Melinda Sonderup with the Nebraska State Student Nurse of the Year Award.

Mar 5, 2004

UNMC dental researcher receives Parkinson’s disease grant

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has awarded Kalipada Pahan, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry, UNMC College of Dentistry, a two-year, $125,000 grant to study the effectiveness of a drug to stop the destruction of cells in mouse models with Parkinson’s disease.

Mar 4, 2004

UNMC researcher featured in The New England Journal of Medicine

A UNMC researcher is featured in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. In the NEJM’s March 4 Perspective column, Stephen Rennard, M.D., Larson Professor of Medicine, UNMC Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, outlines the need to increase awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and highlights a promising tool in diagnosing and managing patients with COPD.

Mar 4, 2004

Unique mice attract Japanese researcher

Jun-ichi Sakiyama, Ph.D., recently traveled to UNMC to study the world’s only existing genetically engineered mouse strain without the Hoxb6 gene. Sakiyama is interested in whether the Hoxb6 gene plays a crucial role in lung development, an area he has been studying in the division of biological science at Nagoya University in Japan.

Mar 3, 2004

Dental Day benefits 121 Nebraska students

Eight-year-old Cody Senyard was frightened. It was the first time he’d attended the UNMC College of Dentistry’s Dental Day and, even with his mom by his side, the Hastings boy was scared. Senyard and 120 other children from Hastings, Harvard, Norfolk and Lexington recently received oral health care from 350 dental and dental hygiene students.

Mar 2, 2004

Regents approve purchase of dental simulators, chairs

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents Saturday approved the purchase of new simulation lab equipment and dental chairs at the UNMC College of Dentistry for $2.5 million.

Mar 1, 2004

Dr. Persidsky named recipient of Gilmore award

When Yuri Persidsky, M.D., Ph.D., came to UNMC in 1994, he had an idea to develop a small animal model to study HIV in the brain. Nearly a decade later, the severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mouse model for HIV-1 infection of the brain that Dr. Persidsky developed with Howard Gendelman, M.D., has become recognized in the scientific community on several fronts.

Mar 1, 2004

UNMC second quarter research grants total $9.7 million

UNMC received $9.7 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2003-2004. The second quarter included the months of October, November and December.

Mar 1, 2004