Kristy Kounovsky-Shafer’s research is guided by a piece of advice she received as a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For every question you answer, five more questions should arise. “That means you’re actually doing something interesting,” Kounovsky-Shafer said. “Because if you’re not doing something interesting, then you get no more questions out of the project.” This is how the associate chemistry professor approaches her research at the … [Read more...] about Kristy Kounovsky-Shafer: ‘Sometimes success is being able to do something no one else has done before’
Cancer
Surabhi Chandra: ‘I want to understand and provide a molecular basis for diabetes-related diseases’
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world, with an estimated 2 million new cases diagnosed in 2018 alone. In the United States, about 1 in 8 women will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. Like many other forms of cancer, there are certain factors that impact a person’s breast cancer risk and their chances of beating the disease. Diabetes is one of them. Surabhi Chandra, an associate professor in the University of Nebraska at … [Read more...] about Surabhi Chandra: ‘I want to understand and provide a molecular basis for diabetes-related diseases’
Curing Cancer: Allen Thomas aims to better treat brain diseases
By KIM HACHIYA Diseases that attack the brain are particularly difficult, if not impossible, to treat. Brain cancer has just a 34.7 percent five-year survival rate, and Alzheimer’s disease kills many it afflicts. Part of the reason why is that the brain has a defense mechanism, the “blood-brain barrier,” that protects it from harmful chemicals, bacteria and viruses. That barrier also keeps out substances that could kill cancer cells or sweep away plaques and tangles … [Read more...] about Curing Cancer: Allen Thomas aims to better treat brain diseases
With cancer in his past, UNK’s Kyle Anderson focused on future in health care
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Two years ago, Kyle Anderson didn’t think he’d live long enough to celebrate Christmas. Now the University of Nebraska at Kearney sophomore is preparing for a career as a physician and the opportunity to help others overcome health-related obstacles. “I definitely know what it means to have a good physician, and I’d love to be able to pay that forward to my patients someday,” he said. Anderson was diagnosed in 2011 … [Read more...] about With cancer in his past, UNK’s Kyle Anderson focused on future in health care
Bye Aerospace exec, UNK grad Diane Simard to speak at UNK April 4-5
KEARNEY – UNK graduate and Bye Aerospace senior vice president Diane Simard will share her story of being a successful career woman in a “man’s world” and her journey surviving cancer at a pair of events April 4-5 in Kearney. A 1988 UNK grad, she will present “Channel Adversity into Success” from 3:30-4:30 p.m. April 4 in UNK’s Copeland Hall 142. A second talk, “A Survivor’s View of the Long-Term Psychological Impact of Cancer,” is noon to 1 p.m. April 5 at the UNK … [Read more...] about Bye Aerospace exec, UNK grad Diane Simard to speak at UNK April 4-5
