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Over the last six months, videos of 22 biomedical researchers from the University of Kentucky, featured on the national website LabTV, have garnered 324,000 views.
LabTV.com features thousands of researchers working at dozens of leading universities, corporations, and the National Institutes of Health. In these videos medical researchers tell where they came from, how they chose their career, what they do each day in the lab, and why they love it.
Plants put up a natural defense system against bacteria and disease through bioactive chemical constituents called flavonoids.
While humans have turned to plants and herbs for medicinal purposes throughout history, researchers are now learning how to harness the chemopreventive properties of flavonoids to prevent human disease. Medical research suggests flavonoids can prevent the development of steroid-responsive cancers, but not all flavonoids serve the same beneficial function.
For University of Kentucky Vice President for Research Lisa Cassis the drive to conduct meaningful research is personal.
“You don’t go into it for the money, you go into it because you want to help people,” Cassis said.
Analia Loria, assistant professor of pharmacology and nutritional sciences at the University of Kentucky, will be a featured presenter at the First Physiology and Gender Conference organized by the American Physiological Society this week.
Doctor of Philosophy: Junting Ai, China; Kate Townsend Creasy, Richmond, VA; Paulina Renee Davis, Temecula, CA; Leann Sara Fiore, Tulsa, OK; Sang Hee Lee, South Korea; Kristen Platt, Flemingsburg, KY; Robin Camille Shoemaker, Farmington, NM; Joel Christopher Thompson, Lexington, KY; Congqing Wu, Lexington, KY
The University of Kentucky’s fifth annual Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day was held on May 20 at the Albert B. Chandler Hospital Pavilion A.
Since 2011, the event has focused on current findings in obesity and diabetes research and features presentations by nationally prominent physician-scientists as well as the work of regional researchers and UK students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty chosen from abstract submissions.
Two researchers from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have received a multi-million dollar grant renewal to unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and brain aging with the help of people with Down syndrome (DS).
Shuxia Wang, MD, Ph.D., has received NIH RO1 funding for a project titled "Thrombospondin1 in obesity associated inflammation and insulin resistance." The project will be supported by $1,204,651 grant for the period of August 2014 to May 2018. In addition, Dr. Wang recently received a competitive score for an R03 award to study interventions that may reduce acute kidney injury in the elderly. Dr. Wang joined the University of Kentucky faculty in 2005, and has served extensively in the areas of research, graduate training, and education. Dr.
Changcheng Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, has received funding for an NIH R21 grant: "Mechanisms of atherogenic effects of bisphenol A," for the period April 1, 2014 - March 31, 2016. Dr. Zhou joined the faculty of University of Kentucky in 2010. He also holds an adjunct faculty position at Rockefeller University, NY. The main focus of Dr. Zhou’s laboratory is to investigate the molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis and metabolic disorders.
The University of Kentucky Center for Health Services Research (CHSR), which serves as a connector, catalyst and creator at UK and UK HealthCare, announces the launch of its new website and seeks membership applicants for its efforts in applying research to optimize health care delivery. The CHSR is focused on creating, testing, and scaling next-generation health services research solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health delivery within Kentucky and beyond.
The Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences is pleased to announce that Associate Professors Florin and Sanda Despa recently received tenure, and Dr. Kevin Pearson was promoted to the positon of associate professor with tenure. Before coming to the University of Kentucky in 2013, Florin and Sanda Despa had appointments at the University of California, Davis. Florin earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics in Bucharest, Romania and did post-doctoral studies in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He was an assistant professor of research at U.C.