Join us next Friday for the CHRI/ @unmc.bsky.social Munroe-Meyer Institute #Autism #Research Mini Summit. It will be a half day event of members of both institutions sharing their most recent breakthroughs relating to autism. Registration information info in the link www.unmc.edu/chri/news/mi...

Congratulations to CHRI executive director, @aandersonberry.bsky.social , MD, PhD, and CHRI researcher, Russell McCulloh, MD, for being chosen for the NU System’s Developing Excellence in Academic Leaders! They are among only four @unmc.bsky.social faculty members selected.

Hannah Winchester, MSLIS, assistant professor, @unmc.bsky.social Education and Research Services Librarian, led off today’s Pediatric Academic Workshop with a talk on using #AI at the start of a #research project. She shared lots of benefits and many important pitfalls.

Grant Writing Essentials will be the theme of this Friday's Pediatric Academic Workshop that CHRI will be hosting with the UNMC Department of Pediatrics. We will be welcoming internal and external experts on all aspects of putting forth a successful grant application. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Congratulations to CHRI member, Kate Heelan, PhD, on receiving this $2.5m grant that will help her team provide important nutrition information to rural children at school. @aandersonberry.bsky.social Grant will expand nutrition, fitness program for children www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Grant will expand nutrition, fitness program for children

Rural Health Transformation Program funding boosts UNMC efforts to educate young Nebraskans.

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CHRI executive director, @aandersonberry.bsky.social, was featured on the @KIOSOmaha program Heartbeat. Dr. Anderson Berry spoke on the topic, "How Research Becomes Treatment." We look forward to hearing from other CHRI Researchers on this program in the future! www.kios.org/programs/hea...

Heartbeat on KIOS 91.5, Omaha Public Radio

Michael Lyon talks with UNMC physicians and researchers about the work behind better health. Tuesdays on KIOS 91.5 in Omaha, and as a podcast.

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Ending the week by sharing some good news! 👏👏 @aandersonberry.bsky.social Research-specific funding awards jump 35% for UNMC www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Research-specific funding awards jump 35% for UNMC

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

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Congratulations to CHRI members chosen for @unmc.bsky.social research distinctions this year. Special kudos to Research Leadership honoree- Jennifer Blackford, PhD, @unmcmmi.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social Ted Mikuls, PhD, named UNMC 21st Scientist Laureate www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

At the PCRG Symposium, we heard from researchers, Gargi Ghosal, PhD; Kate Hyde, PhD; Kyle Hewitt, PhD, and their work on cancer drug development and hematological malignancies. Del Ficke and Kerry Hoffschneider of Graze Master gave an engaging talk on rural realities and environmental health.

We had a great morning session at the Pediatric Cancer Research Symposium including a research advocacy panel, a keynote talk from CHRI executive director, @aandersonberry.bsky.social and an update from PCRG director, Dr. Don Coulter. Looking forward to additional scientific talks this afternoon!

Interesting and important research into local healthcare employment conditions from CHRI member Katrina Poppert Cordts, PhD - Barriers to behavioral health workforce development in Nebraska: A focus on faculty shortages. @aandersonberry.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Barriers to Behavioral Health Workforce Development in Nebraska: A Focus on Faculty Shortages - The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research

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Congratulations to CHRI Neonatology Division researcher, Tara Nordgren, PhD, who recently had three articles published in one month! Well done! @unmccom.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... read.qxmd.com/read/4243659... www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...

Spectral Flow Cytometry Method for Immunophenotyping Neutrophil Activation and NETs in an Acute Dust Exposure Model

Background Although the contributions of neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) in chronic respiratory diseases associated with environmental dust inhalation has advanced, changes in ne...

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At a poster show yesterday, our Summer Undergraduate Research Project students shared the work they did over the past months. These students provided valuable support to CHRI researchers and gained vital research experience as they start their scientific careers. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Congratulations to CHRI member, Jesse Bell, PhD, and his team. Dr. Bell works closely with areas of emphasis within CHRI to study environmental links with pediatric health issues. @aandersonberry.bsky.social Water, Climate and Health Program releases 2025 annual report www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Water, Climate and Health Program releases 2025 annual report

Report highlights a year of impactful research, community engagement and more.

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This is great news! One of our researchers, Ling Li, MD, PhD, will serve as a @unmc.bsky.social primary investigator for this project for pediatric research projects for Children's Nebraska. www.unomaha.edu/news/uno-sec...

UNO Secures $8M NSF Award to Establish Nebraska Center for 3D Innovation (NE3D)

The new center will be a hub for research, education, industry partnerships, and building real-world healthcare solutions.

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Congratulations CHRI member, Alvaro Flores, MD, for authoring multi center nutrition article “Pediatric MASLD: The New Era Practical Approach to Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric MASLD with Emphasis on Risk Factors and Obesity Medications" Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics.

At noon on August 3, CHRI will welcome Chun-Hua Tsai, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at @unomaha.edu as part or our AI Seminar Series. Dr. Tsai's topic will be AI in Healthcare: Generative AI Agent Applications. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Members of our Pediatric Cancer Area of Emphasis showed out for the Head for the Cure event. Great cause and great to see Omaha mayor John Ewing there. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Four CHRI members are the recipients of the @unmc.bsky.social 026-27 Edna Ittner Pediatric Research Support Fund, an internal funding program that supports research focused on diseases and congenital disabilities of children. Kudos to Drs. Jason Michaud, Haiying Shen, Paul Trippier and Wei Shi.

CHRI researchers Károly Mirnics, MD, PhD, and Eric Peeples, MD, PhD, have published an important article outlining associations between fetal brain development and medications taken during pregnancy. See link: Article underscores fetal brain development risks www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Article underscores fetal brain development risks

Review calls attention to brain development risks associated with certain medications during pregnancy.

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In UNMC Today, check out the great write-up on the DECODE training grant that was awarded to IGPBS professors Dr. Andrew Dudley and Dr. Jordan Rowley! You can read all about the purpose of the grant and the goals of the training program here: www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Grant will aid in 'decoding' AI, computation for investigators

New T32 award will fund the Developing Experts in Computation, 'Omics and Data Exploration (DECODE) program.

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Mini Talks! Early careers researchers are sharing their projects this afternoon at the the Brain Tumors Summit. Some really interesting and promising projects on display. Congratulations to all those chosen to present.

The CHRI Brain Tumors Summit featured the talk, "Patients' Brain Tumors Don't Always Read the Book," by Craig Horbinski, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Science. Next was a panel on bridging the gap between pediatric and adult cancer research. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

The CHRI Brain Tumors Summit has begun. Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PhD, and @unmc.bsky.social chancellor Dr. Dele Davies provided inspiring opening statements. Medical student Garrett Lenners shared his own powerful medical journey, and we heard from the first keynote speaker Dr. Sujatha Venkataraman.

This month's CHRI Bulletin will include a story on Colman Freel, a @unmc.bsky.social MD/PhD student that received a graduate assistant fellowship for his research on why the children of mothers with #diabetes face an elevated risk of #hypertension. @unmccom.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social

We got permission from one of our community partners, NorthStar Foundation, to share some fun photos from our Community Partner Career Day where kids from after-school programs visited @unmc.bsky.social campus to learn about careers in science and medicine. Thanks to all who volunteered.

Congratulations to geneticist Christopher Cummings, MD, PhD. Dr Cummings has received a K08 award through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for his ground breaking research on fetal alcoholism spectrum disorder. Kudos! @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

It’s a great day for Donuts with Docs. Our Summer Undergraduate Research Program Students are meeting with pediatric providers to casually connect over some breakfast and coffee. ❤️🍩👩🏽‍⚕️ @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Well done! CHRI pediatric cancer researchers - Drs. Sutapa Ray, Nagendra Chaturvedi, Sidharth Mahapatra, and Kishor Bhakat attended the ISPNO 2026 pediatric neuro-oncology event in Sydney. @aandersonberry.bsky.social