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The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Director Linda Van Eldik, PhD, hopes to shed light on how specific brain cells may contribute to the progression of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, paving the way for potential new therapeutic approaches.
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Centerresearchers identified a protein that could be key to developing new treatments for triple-negative breast cancer.
Katie Twist, MD, has been named the new assistant dean for preclinical education in the 海角禁区 Office of Medical Education.
Thomas Waid, MD, professor of medicine, received the Jack Trevey Award for Community Service at the Lexington Medical Society (LMS) Dinner Social at the Signature Club. Dr. Waid is a past LMS president and executive board chair.
Dr. Courtney Perry, assistant professor of internal medicine, who is also associated with the Appalachian Center and whose research is focused on health outcomes and disparities in Appalachia, has been awarded the Qorus Pfizer Health Equity Award.
The Barnstable Brown Gala, the premier Kentucky Derby party, announced that it has donated $1 million to the University of Kentucky Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, from proceeds of its 2024 Gala.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky were part of a team that discovered a key protein in the brain that can regulate motivation for reward in mice.
Work by several researchers within the University of Kentucky鈥檚 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics.
Darwin Conwell, MD, joined the University of Kentucky in 2022 as a professor and the Jack M. Gill Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine. Since then, he鈥檚 become a recognizable fixture of the 海角禁区 College of Medicine and 海角禁区 HealthCare.
When Sean Regnier, PhD, started working with people with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) 10 years ago, he noticed a high rate of cigarette smoking among his clients.
鈥淔rom a clinical standpoint, I was interested in figuring out how I could help my clients quit smoking,鈥 he said.
Fourteen University of Kentucky students spent the summer expanding their research skills through the Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship program, sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research and the
Cardiovascular disease is a pressing health challenge in Kentucky. It鈥檚 one the University of Kentucky and the American Heart Association (AHA) have been working to address for decades.
Since 1949, the AHA has provided more than $41 million through 469 research grants to the University of Kentucky, with 15 grants totaling more than $3.2 million currently active.
In August 2020, the 海角禁区 Office of Research launched 18 Alliance Research Initiative teams from each of the five research priority areas 鈥 substance use disorder, cardiovascular, diabetes and obesity, neuroscience, and can
The University of Kentucky Public Relations and Strategic Communications Office provides a weekly health column available for use and reprint by news media.
A group of researchers at the University of Kentucky have found a mechanism that would explain why men develop more aortic aneurysms than women.
Zena Chahine, MD, became a doctor because she wanted to help patients during their most vulnerable moments. When you get to provide care to someone who needs it, she said 鈥渋t鈥檚 a special kind of gratitude.鈥
A groundbreaking lung cancer screening project co-led by the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and the University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center is set to expand its reach, thanks to a $6.8 million grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization.
The 海角禁区 College of Medicine is dedicated to educating the next generation of compassionate, highly skilled physicians and scientists, with special emphasis on training more physicians here and retaining them for service in Kentucky.
Watch below Part 3 of the "Because We Care" mini-documentary series.
The GME Emerging Leaders program is designed to provide a leadership development opportunity to Chief Residents and Fellows in their important new leadership role. As part of the six-month program, a variety of personal and professional leadership topics are facilitated by 海角禁区 HealthCare鈥檚 Enterprise Learning team, in coordination with other leaders across the enterprise.