UNMC - Internal Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Program

06/15/2018

Our 2018 SURP and SUARP students are off to a great start! Welcome to all! The students in our Summer Undergraduate Alcohol Research Program, funded by a grant from NIH/NIAAA, attended their first Journal Club meeting this week.

10/23/2017

SURP flyer.

10/19/2017

You may be interested in the next Omaha Science Cafe

For more than 100 years, health sciences have known about the existence of a parasite that inhabits human brains, but considered it of little importance. Recent data, however, suggests that this infection, known as toxoplasma gondii, is anything but harmless as it can contribute to flu-like symptoms...

10/16/2017

Applications are now open for summer of 2018 at

UNMC Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

09/20/2017

These are always interesting if you are interested in science.

As the morning meteorologist, Serwe begins his day around 1:30 a.m. He has been with KETV for nearly five years and previously worked at WJFW in Rhinelander, Wis., before coming to Omaha.

09/15/2017

Important paper from Dr. Mark Rupp, Division of Infectious Diseases chief. If you are interested in this specialty, this may be of interest.

Content courtesy of Dr. Rupp. Investigators from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Division of Infectious Diseases recently published reassuring data indicating that use of chlorhexi…

08/15/2017

Nick Kuttner working on a protein assay for hepatocyte samples with mentors Drs. Terrence Donohue and Li Yang. His research had to do with triglyceride buildup in liver cells due to ethanol exposure. Protein assays (as well as DNA assays) were used as standards so that they could compare triglyceride content among samples.

08/10/2017

You were all very impressive. Great job!

08/09/2017

Adelaide Johanson loading an ion sphere chip with cardiomyocytes to have RNA sequenced in the Personal Genome Machine. Adelaide has worked on a heart failure model involving the treatment of fibroblasts with Transforming Growth Factor beta-1 alongside her mentors, (back left to right) Drs. Basma, Lowes, and Dhar.

08/08/2017

Dr. Kathleen Grant (seated left, clockwise) with Cynthia Beaumont, Rebecca Losh and SUARP student Megan Kucks reviewing the enrollment of a probationer in the study, Intensive Referral to Reduce Smoking in Probationers

08/07/2017

Max's project with Dr. Christopher Erickson involves examining a 15 lead heart ECG to identify different degrees of Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome (WPW) at each lead.

08/07/2017

McKenzie and Dr. Bailey are looking at plates containing mesenchymal stem cell colonies that have been fixed and stained. McKenzie said "These plates were treated with different concentrations of alcohol. We are trying to look at whether or not the alcohol had an affect on the growth of these stem cells."