The University of Kentucky Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program is currently accepting applications from all UK colleges for scholars and associates interested in research to advance women’s health and address sex differences.

An estimated one in eight women live with polycystic ovarian syndrome, commonly referred to as PCOS. However, the name is a bit of a misnomer; it suggests that the condition affects only the ovaries. In actuality, the condition is a broader metabolic and hormonal disorder.

The University of Kentucky has been awarded a prestigious $11.3 million Phase 2 Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.

Students, families, faculty, and health care partners gathered on May 8 to celebrate the latest graduating class of the UK Careers in Health care Internship Program (CHIP), a pathway program designed to introduce Kentucky high school students to careers in medicine and health care through direct clinical exposure and mentorship. 

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is excited to share the winners of the fifth annual Mission, Values, and Pillar Awards. 

A new study from researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is exploring whether a drug originally developed to combat neuroinflammation in dementia could also help reduce the harmful brain inflammation associated with alcohol withdrawal — a discovery that could eventually open n

Clinical trials are often associated with new treatments, breakthrough findings, and the promise of what comes next. What is less visible is the hard work behind the scenes that makes those moments possible.  

More than 120 poster presentations and a full day of lectures, oral abstracts and networking brought together researchers, clinicians, trainees and staff May 13 for the 16th annual Markey Cancer Center Research Day at the University of Kentucky.

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) has announced the 11 students selected for the 2026 Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Fellowship program. [Of the 11 students, 5 are from the College of Medicine.] 

Five University of Kentucky faculty members received the 2026 Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for their exceptional leadership and support of student researchers. 

Fifty-six high school students from 28 schools across 24 Kentucky counties recently spent a day at the University of Kentucky, meeting and learning from cancer researchers, physicians and health care professionals. The event was the first in what organizers plan to make an annual effort to help build the state’s oncology workforce pipeline.

For Supriya Challa, the decision to pursue medicine didn’t begin in a classroom or clinic. It began in a therapy office, where a provider helped her rediscover her voice. 

Growing up in Okemos, Michigan, Challa faced significant challenges in childhood that could have derailed her path. Instead, those experiences became the foundation for her future in medicine. 

Kidus Shiferawe’s path to medicine has been shaped by two places that might seem worlds apart — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and eastern Kentucky. His experiences living in both, however, revealed the same urgent reality: for many rural communities, getting timely, specialized care can be difficult.  

As a medical student at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine–Bowling Green Campus, Alicia Fields developed an early interest in skin health. Over the last four years, she has helped expand how it is understood, taught, and advocated for in her local community and across the Commonwealth. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. – In honor of Donate Life Month, the 

Last week, the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved 17 University Research Professors for the 2026-27 academic year.

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Two University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers have each received a Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS), securing a combined $1.9 million to fund laboratory studies that may lead to new or more effective treatments for patients with few options.

For decades, the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has helped shape how the world understands Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias — from groundbreaking discoveries to leading clinical trials that are changing what’s possible for patients and families.

Where people live — and the air they breathe, green space they can access, and social and political conditions they experience — may play a major role in how the brain ages, according to a large international study recently published in Nature Medicine.