Research

2025 Turpen Award: Brigid Toomey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln grad Toomey will be attending Washington University to study cancer biology.

Aug 27, 2026

Brigid Toomey

Research-specific funding awards jump 35% for UNMC

The 2025-26 total awards also were up 30% for the last fiscal year.

Aug 27, 2026

Ken Bayles, PhD, vice chancellor for research

Ted Mikuls, MD, named UNMC’s 21st Scientist Laureate

Dr. Mikuls will be honored, along with 23 other researchers, at an awards event on Oct. 29 at the Omaha campus.

Aug 26, 2026

Ted Mikuls, MD

NSRI and federal partners tour UNMC, other NU campuses

Leaders from the Defense Health Agency and Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute recently visited the university.

Aug 24, 2026

Front row from left: Oleg Korzyukov, PhD, UNMC; Brianna McGhee, 55 CONS; Tiffany Arizmendi, 55 CONS; Capt. Gerald Burke, AFRRI; Neal Woollen, PhD, NSRI; David Evans, DHA; Dr. Emily Luteran, PhD, DHA; Valentina Gumenyuk, PhD, UNMC. Back row from left: Maj. Gen., USAF (Ret.) Rick Evans, NSRI; Martin LaFrance, PhD, DHA; Ryan Hartung, PhD, ARS Steering Committee; Chad Briscoe, PhD, ARS Steering Committee; Vijay Singh, PhD, AFRRI; Terry Thiem, PhD, NSRI; Ken Bayles, PhD, UNMC; Jim Miller, UARC Program Manager, USSTRATCOM.

Annual Medical Student Research Showcase set for today

The event will be from 8:30-11 a.m. at the Davis Global Center.

Aug 21, 2026

Night shot of the Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center take on Wedneday, February 1, 2023

Medical research highlights, summer 2026

The UNMC College of Medicine recently received grantsĀ and awards representing nearly $16 million in new funding in July.

Aug 18, 2026

Paul Sorgen, PhD

UNMC faculty receive university’s most prestigious awards

Amy Duhachek-Stapelman, MD, received an Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, and Benson Edagwa, PhD, received the Faculty IP Innovation and Commercialization Award.

Aug 12, 2026

Benson Edagwa, PhD, left, and Amy Duhachek-Stapelman, MD

Dr. Kumbar, team, honored at military health symposium

UNMC research developed as clinically translatable to war injuries and civilian trauma.

Aug 11, 2026

From left, Allen Zennifer, PhD, Ken Bayles, PhD, Sangamesh Kumbar, PhD, Sama Abdulmalik, PhD, and Suranji Wijekoon, PhD, DVM, celebrate at the Military Health System Research Symposium.

Trailblazing a decade of CAR T-cell therapy

Hundreds gathered for an evening to celebrate 10 years of the groundbreaking therapy at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska Medicine and UNMC.

Aug 11, 2026

Clinical trial participant Nick Howe, and some family members, took the stage at the event.

UNMC to host fourth annual Medical Student Research Showcase

Event will be held on Aug. 21 at the Davis Global Center.

Aug 11, 2026

Night shot of the Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center take on Wedneday, February 1, 2023