President & CEO
(402) 290-4840
mdixon@unmc.edu
Michael Dixon is President and CEO, working with faculty, students and staff to help commercialize innovative, new ideas that have the potential to improve public health in Nebraska and beyond. Dr. Dixon is responsible for setting UNeMed’s strategic path while directing efforts to protect, market and license new technologies.
Dr. Dixon is a graduate of Leadership Omaha Class 32 and a 2011 recipient of the Midlands Business Journal “40 under 40” award. As an active member of the community, Dr. Dixon serves on several Boards of Directors, including Invest Nebraska Corporation, a non-profit, venture development organization that advises and invests in companies and early stage business ideas in Nebraska. He also sits on the board of Bio Nebraska, a nonprofit trade association dedicated to the development and growth of Nebraska’s bioscience industry.
Dr. Dixon holds a doctorate in Pathology and Microbiology from UNMC.
Recent UNeMed news featuring Dr. Dixon:
HemaGlobal opens Morning Edition at Catalyst
OMAHA, Nebraska (April 3, 2025)—Attendees at UNeMed’s March 27 installment of Idea Pub: Morning Edition got an early peek inside the nearly completed Catalyst building, just a few weeks shy of its grand opening. Morning Edition is UNeMed’s networking event for university innovators, entrepreneurs and startup community members, and featured two short presentations. One highlighted …
Innovation, entrepreneurs abound at UNMC nursing
by Amanda Hawley, PhD, UNeMed | November 21, 2024 Witnessing the inventive nature of nurses is akin to watching MacGyver resolve medical obstacles. Although MacGuyver was a mulleted 1980s TV character who could engineer a bomb with a paperclip and soda can, nurses similarly devise effective, albeit improvised, solutions. When there is a job to …
Catalyst building shines for 2024 Innovation Awards
OMAHA, Nebraska (November 8, 2024)—UNeMed concluded its 2024 Innovation Week last night with its annual Innovation Awards ceremony at the new UNMC Catalyst building. An estimated 225 turned out to network with colleagues, university leadership and UNeMed staff who honored all UNMC and UNO inventors that submitted new inventions, licensed a technology or were issued …
Catalyst tours highlight Morning Edition
OMAHA, Nebraska (July 1, 2024)—UNeMed’s “Idea Pub: Morning Edition” drew record numbers Thursday, bringing in an estimated 65 people for the networking event. It was highlighted by a short presentation from Dean Koelbel, followed by subsequent “hardhat tours” of the new UNMC Catalyst building, which is expected to open in January. Koelbel is Vice President …
Nichol-Caddy highlights SBIR/STTR funding at latest Morning Edition
OMAHA, Nebraska (May 31, 2024)—UNeMed’s “Idea Pub: Morning Edition” continued with its second installment yesterday, bringing together a unique blend of innovators, investors, researchers, entrepreneurs and others from the local startup community to share ideas, contacts and insights. The startup and entrepreneurial networking event featured brief comments from Josh Nichol-Caddy, Technology Commercialization Director at the …
Morning Edition opens with success
OMAHA, Nebraska (April 26, 2024)—UNeMed’s inaugural “Idea Pub: Morning Edition” yesterday brought together more than 50 innovators, investors, researchers, entrepreneurs and others from the local startup community to share ideas, contacts and insights in what planners described as an unqualified success. The startup and entrepreneurial networking event featured brief comments from Charlie Cuddy, co-founder and …
