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The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a world-class academic health sciences center located in Omaha, Nebraska. Internationally revered for biocontainment isolation care, infectious disease preparedness, solid organ transplantation, and cancer research at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, UNMC trains premier clinical practitioners and biomedical investigators.
UNMC encompasses six colleges: Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Public Health, and Allied Health Professions, alongside graduate biomedical training programs. UNMC operates the National Quarantine Center, the Global Center for Health Security, and the Munroe-Meyer Institute for developmental disabilities.
Admissions are competitive and administered through the Graduate Studies office or centralized application services (AMCAS, PharmCAS, SOPHAS). Biomedical doctoral applicants require strong undergraduate STEM preparation, minimum 3.0 GPA, letters of recommendation, and English proficiency (TOEFL 80+ or IELTS 6.5+).
Elite NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center doctorate focusing on tumor microenvironment signaling, chemoresistance mechanisms, antibody-drug conjugates, and cancer genomics.
Preeminent national program utilizing the Davis Global Center and biocontainment facilities to study viral hemorrhagic fevers, airborne pathogen aerosolization, pandemic response logistics, and biocontainment protocol design.
Top-ranked clinical pharmacy doctorate delivering rigorous simulation training in therapeutic drug monitoring, hospital sterile compounding, infectious disease stewardship, and oncology pharmacotherapy.
Interdisciplinary environmental health doctorate studying agricultural dust respiratory toxicity, pesticide neurotoxicity, Great Plains groundwater nitrate contamination, and rural occupational hazards.
Cardiovascular and integrative physiology research examining sympathetic nerve activity, heart failure molecular pathways, blood-brain barrier dysfunction, and microvascular hemodynamics.
Intensive gross anatomy master's featuring whole-body cadaveric dissection, 3D holographic virtual anatomy in the iEXCEL visualization center, histology, and embryology.
Professor & Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Dr. Batra is an internationally recognized authority on pancreatic cancer, investigating mucin glycoproteins, biomarker discovery, antibody targeting, and metas...
View researcher profile ↗Executive Director & Professor of Internal Medicine
Global Center for Health Security
Dr. Lawler directs clinical biosecurity initiatives, leading quarantine protocols for high-consequence viral pathogens, aeromedical evacuation of Ebola patients...
View researcher profile ↗Theodore F. Hubbard Professor of Cardiovascular Research
Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Dr. Zucker investigates central nervous system control of circulation, autonomic dysregulation in chronic heart failure, carotid body chemoreflexes, and exercis...
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