{"id":49282,"date":"2014-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/30\/coalition-honors-maurers-for-work-to-support-research\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:25:55","slug":"coalition-honors-maurers-for-work-to-support-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/30\/coalition-honors-maurers-for-work-to-support-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition honors Maurers for work to support research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>The Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures&#8217; tribute luncheon honoring UNMC Chancellor Emeritus Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and his wife, Beverly, on Monday concluded with a surprise: the creation of an annual research award that will bear the Maurers&#8217; names.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Dr. Harold M. &amp; Beverly Maurer Scientific Achievement Award&#8221; will be given annually by the coalition, beginning next year, to a scientist or clinician who shows special merit or promise in research topics or treatment areas that mirror the coalition&#8217;s mission. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to recognizing some of the prominent Nebraska workers in this area,&#8221; said David Crouse, Ph.D., president of the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The Maurers were recognized Monday for their advocacy for biomedical research over the past couple of decades. <\/p>\n<p>When Dr. Maurer became chancellor in 1998, UNMC&#8217;s annual research funding hovered under $30 million annually. <\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Larsen, M.D., vice chancellor for research at UNMC, credited Dr. Maurer with setting a goal to reach $100 million annually &#8212; a goal that many others thought would be impossible to achieve &#8212; and then consistently imparting his view that research growth was essential to UNMC becoming a world-class academic medical center. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year, it looks like we will be above $100 million in research funding,&#8221; Dr. Larsen said. <\/p>\n<p>Lynne Boyer, board secretary for the coalition, said that both Dr. Maurer and &#8220;his powerhouse wife Beverly&#8221; knew it would take community support to reach their research goals.  The couple helped to raise close to $1 billion in philanthropy, and Beverly was a leading driver for formation of Nebraskans for Research, which later joined with business leaders to form the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures.<\/p>\n<p>Without the advocacy organizations, restrictive laws or policy likely would have stopped cutting-edge stem cell research work taking place at UNMC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve admired Dr. Maurer and I&#8217;ve admired Beverly for a long, long time,&#8221; said Dick Holland, chairman of the board for the coalition group. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they will ever be forgotten &#8212; what they have accomplished is remarkable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures creates the Dr. Harold M. &amp; Beverly Maurer Scientific Achievement Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":49283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","department-unmc-front-page","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines","department-vice-chancellor-research","author_override-by-bill-oneill-unmc-public-relations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coalition honors Maurers for work to support research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures creates the Dr. Harold M. &amp; 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