Men's basketball interview vs. Purdue

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02/26/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about students named All-American flag football officials and talked about game-changing research for people who suffer a stroke. Nebraska researchers are not only making important discoveries related to stroke, but they will also be involved in the clinical trials for the treatment.

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[00:00:01.490]Welcome back, Insider Sports Network Studios,
[00:00:03.431]Greg Sharpe here with the Chancellor of the
[00:00:04.910]University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:06.790]Halftime of the Huskers game with the Boilermakers.
[00:00:09.610]Nebraska students work hard to achieve
[00:00:11.810]in so many different ways here on this campus
[00:00:14.080]and we recently got some good news about Nebraska students
[00:00:16.810]and their achievements at the national-level
[00:00:18.500]of intramural sports.
[00:00:20.090]What can you tell us?
[00:00:21.000]Well, you know, we're really proud of all
[00:00:22.770]of the Husker athletes and we celebrate, like here,
[00:00:25.680]with our basketball team tonight.
[00:00:27.300]But one of the things that a lot of our folks may not know
[00:00:30.470]is that the university has one of the leading
[00:00:32.235]intramural sports programs in the country, as well.
[00:00:35.710]A very high percentage of our students participate
[00:00:38.540]in intramural sports across a wide-range of sports.
[00:00:41.540]And we have a few that have stood out here just recently.
[00:00:44.410]Three of our students were named
[00:00:46.310]All-America flag football officials,
[00:00:48.690]that was during the National Championships
[00:00:50.520]of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association
[00:00:53.800]in January, just last month
[00:00:55.970]in Pensacola, Florida.
[00:00:58.010]Those students are Britton Lyon,
[00:00:59.730]who is a senior chemistry major,
[00:01:01.940]Logan Lewis, who's a senior marketing major
[00:01:04.330]in the business college,
[00:01:05.360]and Brennan Brute who's a junior math major
[00:01:07.490]in College of Arts and Sciences.
[00:01:09.420]For Britton, it's the second All-America award
[00:01:15.370]for that student.
[00:01:17.110]And it's big work, right?
[00:01:18.750]So each official qualified to work the tournament
[00:01:21.700]by ranking high at one of eleven regional tournaments
[00:01:25.340]leading up to that time and only ten officials nationally
[00:01:29.010]received the All-American honors.
[00:01:30.530]So it's a pretty cool deal for these three students
[00:01:33.330]here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:01:35.530]Congratulations to all of them.
[00:01:36.720]Well, sports fans are always clued in
[00:01:38.160]to health and wellness for athletes
[00:01:39.890]but the university recently shared some news
[00:01:42.030]about health and wellness research
[00:01:44.220]which could be game-changing treatment for people
[00:01:46.250]who suffer from strokes.
[00:01:47.690]Let's dive into that.
[00:01:48.940]What can you tell us about the research?
[00:01:50.120]Well, you know, strokes are a big deal, and I'm sure
[00:01:53.340]all of us can relate to people that we know,
[00:01:56.250]or family members that we have had,
[00:01:58.050]who might have experienced some form of stroke.
[00:02:01.750]You've heard the phrase that time is money.
[00:02:04.830]They have this phrase in the stroke literature, as well,
[00:02:07.500]where time is brain, so to speak.
[00:02:10.030]Every minute that you are experiencing a stoke,
[00:02:12.950]you lose approximately two million neurons
[00:02:15.150]and 14 billion synapses in your brain as the stroke evolves.
[00:02:20.140]Some of our researchers here at the university
[00:02:22.520]are trying to bring some revolution
[00:02:25.400]to acute ischemic stroke care, when time is so critical.
[00:02:30.160]And by ischemic stroke, what we mean there is, it's caused
[00:02:33.980]by a clot or a narrowing of the artery
[00:02:36.430]which obstructs the blood flow's pathways to the brain
[00:02:39.890]where we then lose the neurons
[00:02:41.740]that we were talking about earlier.
[00:02:43.840]It's really unique, the research that we're doing here.
[00:02:47.860]Where they'll bring this work to people going through
[00:02:51.670]clinicals or trials associated with stroke sufferers.
[00:02:56.930]Steve Barlow, in our
[00:02:57.920]Special Ed. and Communications Disorders group
[00:03:00.840]and Greg Bashford, a professor
[00:03:02.450]in our Biological Systems Engineering Department
[00:03:04.820]in the Institute of Ag. and Natural Resources,
[00:03:07.250]along with their grad students, Ben Hage and Jake Greenwood,
[00:03:10.740]recently published some important findings
[00:03:13.370]in the Journal of Neuroimaging
[00:03:15.510]where they demonstrated that the technologies
[00:03:18.835]they have developed significantly raised cerebral blood flow
[00:03:24.942]to the brain.
[00:03:26.554](laughs)
[00:03:27.450]I'm having one of those moments right now.
[00:03:29.440]To areas typically affected by large vessel ischemic stroke,
[00:03:33.860]like we're talking about here.
[00:03:35.120]So these kind of findings are very important,
[00:03:39.430]they've led to a partnership of our researchers
[00:03:41.970]with CHI's Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha
[00:03:45.250]to utilize this technology with patients that are affected
[00:03:48.570]by this kind of stroke.
[00:03:51.180]So, very exciting work.
[00:03:52.510]They've applied for licensing of this technology
[00:03:56.590]that's being developed from the research
[00:03:58.300]through our NUtech Ventures,
[00:03:59.620]our commercial tech transfer arm of the university.
[00:04:03.070]We are really excited about these results
[00:04:05.390]and how they will lead to help in treating strokes.
[00:04:09.270]Going to clinical trail, so what's next for
[00:04:11.770]this treatment approach and the research
[00:04:13.590]that will be behind it?
[00:04:14.650]Well, it's hard to overstate the impact
[00:04:16.610]that this could have because, you know,
[00:04:18.500]this problem that we're talking about here,
[00:04:21.040]accounts for 87% of all the strokes that occur,
[00:04:24.730]according to the American Stroke Association.
[00:04:27.280]But they have more to achieve to bring this
[00:04:30.550]to full-fruition and use in treating strokes.
[00:04:34.230]So, clinical trials and additional work is going
[00:04:36.820]to need to happen to move it forward
[00:04:40.070]to get the dividens from this research in the future.
[00:04:42.800]Both of these investigators have a history
[00:04:45.270]of bringing things to the table.
[00:04:48.070]Steve Barlow's work has lead previously
[00:04:50.680]to an FDA approved therapy for preterm infants
[00:04:54.150]to facilitate the role of oral feeding skills,
[00:04:56.700]brain development, better longterm learning outcomes
[00:05:00.600]for young children.
[00:05:02.560]Greg Bashford, that we mentioned earlier,
[00:05:04.660]his work has been applied to early detection
[00:05:06.490]of Alzheimer's disease and detection
[00:05:08.950]of emboli in infants with congenital heart disease
[00:05:12.270]undergoing surgery.
[00:05:13.130]So, a record track record of success here,
[00:05:15.580]from both of these researchers
[00:05:17.620]now working in this important area of stroke.
[00:05:20.440]Fantastic.
[00:05:21.273]Well, thank you for updating us on that.
[00:05:22.170]Enjoy the second half!
[00:05:23.130]Go Big Red, beat the Boilermakers!
[00:05:24.560]Ronnie Green with us here at halftime.
[00:05:26.180]We got more halftime comin' up next.

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