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UNeMed Corporation

University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine

Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
UNeMed is the technology transfer and commercialization company for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and it also serves inventors at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Nebraska Medicine. It evaluates invention disclosures, files and manages patents, and moves technologies out through licensing to industry, sponsored research agreements and new startup formation.
Organizational model
Academic · Nonprofit
Location
Omaha, Nebraska
Program types
Technology transferEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
LicenseStrategic partnership
Focus areas
Clinical
Public scale or maturity signals

Established 1991

Documented successes: 127 new invention disclosures recorded in fiscal year 2025, a record for the organization; 145 patent applications filed and 57 patents issued (including 33 U.S. patents) in fiscal year 2025; 35 UNMC-derived products on the market as of the fiscal year 2025 report

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

UNeMed is the technology transfer and commercialization company for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and it also serves inventors at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Nebraska Medicine. It evaluates invention disclosures, files and manages patents, and moves technologies out through licensing to industry, sponsored research agreements and new startup formation. UNeMed builds ongoing partnerships with industry leaders rather than transacting one-off licenses, and it runs education programming such as an annual Technology Transfer Boot Camp and an Innovation Awards event for campus inventors. Outside companies engage it directly to license UNMC intellectual property or to sponsor research with UNMC faculty.

Areas of Focus

Clinical

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    127 new invention disclosures recorded in fiscal year 2025, a record for the organization; 145 patent applications filed and 57 patents issued (including 33 U.S. patents) in fiscal year 2025; 35 UNMC-derived products on the market as of the fiscal year 2025 report

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: UNeMed Corporation, University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine

  • Michael Dixon, PhDPresident and CEO

Contact the Program

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Program phone
(402) 290-4840
Official contact page
Open contact page ↗

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. UNeMed Corporation official source unemed.com. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  2. UNeMed Corporation source 2 unemed.com. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  3. UNeMed Corporation source 3 siliconprairienews.com. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  4. UNeMed Corporation source 4 unemed.com. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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