Research Announcements

Innovation Week begins October 26th

Every fall, UNeMed and UNMC’s Vice Chancellor Office for Research sponsors Innovation & Research Week, a popular series of events intended to celebrate and promote innovation and research at UNMC.

This year, Innovation Week will enter its 14th year as an all-virtual series of events. The week will begin Monday, Oct. 26, with an expert panel discussion at noon, and then culminate on Thursday, Oct. 29, with the awards ceremony. Events descriptions and schedules can be found here.

Precision Medicine Workshop

The 2020 Precision Medicine Workshop, presented by the BERD KCA of the Great Plains IDeA-CTR, brings in two world-recognized experts to present their research with the aim to translate precision medicine into improvements in health care across the clinical and translational spectrum. This workshop is broken into two parts, an AM and a PM session, focusing on different aspects of precision medicine and emerging technology.

Workshop will be held April 16, 2020 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.  The workshop has been postponed until Fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  There is no charge to attend although registration is required, register here. Please contact Jerrod Anzalone (email) with questions.   Download the flyer for speaker bios.

First Annual Rural Drug Addiction Research & Translation Symposium

The RDAR Center at the University of Nebraska invites you to our first annual Rural Drug Addiction Research and Translation Symposium.

The mission of the Symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from across the United States to address drug addiction and rural drug use. We seek to advance discussions about how research and translation can contribute to understanding addiction in rural and midwestern communities.

Click here to learn about our acclaimed keynote speakers, as well as the Rural Health and Policy panelists. Opportunities for informal conversations and a Midwest-focused plenary panel will address current prevention and treatment approaches for rural communities. Registration includes a conference dinner on day one (Nov 1) with breakfast and lunch on day two (Nov 2). Click here to view our conference agenda.

Please join us for our discussions on the causes and impacts of rural drug addiction. We have eighty spaces available!