Research

UNMC, UNO institute signs on first four start-up companies

Some of UNeTech’s broad mandate is leveraging relationships to find opportunities of value to advance technology from a start-up.

Sep 8, 2017

Nebraska Public Health Lab receives reaccreditation

Staff were key during Ebola outbreak

Sep 5, 2017

Nebraska Public Health Laboratory technologists test clinical specimens that had the potential to contain high-risk pathogens.

UNMC study shows probiotics prevent sepsis in infants

Findings reported in Aug. 16 issue of Nature

Aug 16, 2017

Dr. Pinaki Panigrahi monitors a baby's progress in a clinical trial in India.

Remembering Sam Sanderson, Ph.D.

Beloved UNMC researcher dies at age 63

Aug 10, 2017

Sam Sanderson, Ph.D.

Graduate Student Alex Wiesman receives National Institute of Aging Award

Hearty congratulations to our own Mr. Alex Wiesman, who just received a four-year F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Aging (NIA/NIH) for his project, Oscillatory Markers of Cognitive Deficits in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease.  Alex is a graduate student in the IGPBS Neuroscience Program working in Dr. Tony Wilson's Laboratory.  Great work, Alex!

Jul 31, 2017

Alex Wiesman

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/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

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.

Regents approve new Child Health Research Institute

Will strengthen 10-year affiliation between Children’s and UNMC and build research in four key areas

Jun 1, 2017

John Sparks, M.D.