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UNMC and Ken Bayles, PhD, UNMC’s vice chancellor for research, were recently featured as part of the University of Nebraska System\u2019s NU for NE campaign<\/a>, which shares stories of outstanding faculty, staff and student work across the campuses and featured ways NU is transforming lives through research.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Defense (DoD), America’s largest government agency, is tasked with providing the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security. Although you may think of national defense as originating from the Pentagon in Washington D.C., support for national defense comes from across the nation \u2014 including Nebraska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Strategic Command, one of 11 combatant commands located around the world, is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Nebraska. From there, it works across the world to deter and detect strategic attacks against the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategic deterrence includes research that ensures U.S. safety and preparedness against increasingly sophisticated threats. And this is where the University of Nebraska steps in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Defense Research and NSRI<\/h4>\n\n\n
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The National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) is a non-profit research center sponsored by U.S. Strategic Command and affiliated with the University of Nebraska System. One of only 15 DoD-designated University Affiliated Research Centers in the country, NSRI works to ensure U.S. safety and preparedness against increasingly sophisticated threats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Many of the national defense opportunities that come the university\u2019s way arrive through the National Strategic Research Institute, the university\u2019s research center that serves the Department of Defense and USSTRATCOM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established in 2012, the National Strategic Research Institute<\/a>, or NSRI, is one of only 15 DoD University-Affiliated Research Centers across the nation. Each of these UARCS has a dedicated research focus area and partners with a specific DoD service or command. The centers are responsible for maintaining essential research and development capabilities to support the DoD with basic, applied and technology demonstration research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSRI focuses on strategic deterrence and combating weapons of mass destruction \u2014 both important U.S. Strategic Command and DoD mission areas.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A University of Nebrask at Omaha graduate, Rick Evans is a retired Major General in the U.S. Air Force and has led NSRI since 2021. He graduated from the Air National Guard Academy of Military Science and has commanded at the detachment, squadron, group and wing levels. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School with more than 4,000 flying hours, including 153 combat hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cI describe UARCs as part of the research enterprise that fills gaps where the DoD can\u2019t otherwise meet its needs,\u201d said Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Rick Evans, NSRI\u2019s executive director. \u201cThe DoD has a variety of federally funded labs, federally funded research and development centers, and other organizations that it can call on, but they can’t fill all its requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe DoD recognizes that academia has a lot of capability to contribute to national security. The University of Nebraska has faculty who are experts; we have cutting-edge research facilities and technology that is valuable to them. They created UARCs to give them an efficient way to tap into university capability to support their military missions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relationship is positive for both the DoD and for faculty who are interested in conducting research that supports national defense. Ken Bayles, PhD, UNMC\u2019s vice chancellor for research, is one of those faculty members. In 2014, Dr. Bayles worked to develop a more effective vaccine for anthrax that could be used in the field in the event of a bioterrorism attack. He was one of the first researchers to work with NSRI.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In 2014, Ken Bayles, PhD, worked to develop a more effective vaccine for anthrax that could be used in the field in the event of a bioterrorism attack. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Now, Dr. Bayles leads research at the UNMC \u2014 a research powerhouse. In 2022, sponsored research totaled at UNMC $251.9 million dollars, creating a new annual record. These dollars build on state support \u2014 which pays faculty and keeps buildings open and lights on \u2014 and allow researchers to pursue innovative approaches to solve pressing problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe UARC status gives UNMC a seat at the table,\u201d Dr. Bayles said. \u201cIt’s a great collaboration. We have unique access to the biomedical research portfolio of the DoD, which is massive. It opens a whole new world of research to our faculty \u2014 and allows them to contribute to the well-being of our country in ways not possible through more traditional funding agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideally Suited for National Defense Research<\/h4>\n\n\n
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In addition to his role as UNMC’s vice chancellor for research, Ken Bayles, PhD, is an active infectious disease researcher and a professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology. His research has helped expand Department of Defense-related activities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In addition to his role as UNMC\u2019s vice chancellor for research, Dr. Bayles is an active infectious disease researcher and a professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology. His research has helped expand DoD-related activities, including work on countermeasures against weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bayles grew up in Kansas with the goal of becoming a biologist. In 1989, he graduated with his PhD from Kansas State University, where he focused on microbiology and molecular genetics. After completing postdoctoral work at the University of Maryland, he landed his first faculty position at the University of Idaho. He left Idaho to come to UNMC and has been in Nebraska ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although other University of Nebraska campuses also work on national defense, UNMC holds a large portion of NSRI’s portfolio when it comes to funded research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUNMC is ideally suited for this type of research,\u201d Dr. Bayles said. \u201cWe have the secure laboratory space, expertise and experience for the development of improved countermeasures against chemical and biological weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNMC’s cutting-edge technology core facilities range from advanced microscopy and DNA sequencing to mass spectrometry flow, cytometry, mouse genome engineering and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also have a large number of laboratory spaces where chemicals, drugs or other biological material are tested and analyzed. This includes Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratories, used to study infectious agents or toxins that may be transmitted through the air and cause potentially lethal infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHaving a UARC in Nebraska is a priceless asset,\u201d Evans said. \u201cIf you look at who the other UARCs are \u2014 Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, Texas, Penn State, Maryland, MIT, Southern Cal \u2014 you’re talking about a prestigious group of universities to be affiliated with. This is unique, and we’re very proud to have it here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued, \u201cThe dollars and the task orders and the contracts are numbers, and they’re important. But the real measurement of our success is our impact on the warfighter and on the national security of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Future Looks Like<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

UNMC is involved with the federal government in many ways beyond national defense.\u00a0Project NExT<\/a>\u00a0is a transformational public-private partnership currently underway \u2014 one that will improve the readiness of the American health system to respond to a catastrophic disaster, another pandemic or an overt attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Project NExT plan calls for creating a federal, all-hazard health security disaster response space. The space leverages UNMC\u2019s experience and global leadership in infectious diseases and biopreparedness to meet America\u2019s current and future unmet health care training, education and capacity needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe dollars and the task orders and the contracts are numbers, and they’re important. But the real measurement of our success is our impact on the warfighter and on the national security of our country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Rick Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Davis Global Center<\/a> is a highly advanced simulation training facility located at UNMC. It\u2019s a place where learners at all levels of training, and from every health care discipline, can practice and hone their skills in realistic health care environments. From surgical simulation to clinical and patient simulations, it replicates a complete health care system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded nearly $20 million to UNMC and Nebraska Medicine to develop a national Training, Simulation and Quarantine Center. And in 2017, the Global Center for Health Security<\/a>, which oversees all biopreparedness efforts, was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Global Center for Health Security helps train and prepare the federal government for any kind of disaster \u2014 from responding to an infectious disease to handling and transporting patients with highly infectious diseases,\u201d Dr. Bayles said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNSRI focuses on training the military audience. UNMC has the same type of capabilities, focusing more on training the professional medical community,\u201d Evans said. \u201cWhen you put those two together, it coalesces to a very unique capability \u2014 right here in Nebraska.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPart of the vision for UNMC is to build areas of expertise. We can’t do everything. But we can focus on our strengths, build on them and make them the best in the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Ken Bayles, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With nationally recognized centers like the Global Center for Health Security and transformational opportunities like Project NExT, UNMC is poised for research success \u2014 particularly when it comes to national defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you’re going to be a first-class university system, these are things that give us an advantage over others in terms of attracting elite faculty and research opportunities to Nebraska,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When NSRI\u2019s Evans thinks about the future, he thinks about growth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I look out 50 years, we have the capacity to do more than a $92 million contract with the DoD \u2014 we can be a $1 billion system of national security problem solvers. I want to set the stage for decades of growth and relevance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said Dr. Bayles, \u201cPart of the vision for UNMC is to build areas of expertise. We can’t do everything. But we can focus on our strengths, build on them and make them the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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