July 1 is quickly approaching, and with it comes a new cohort of residents and fellows beginning their training at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

This summer, the college is welcoming 330 new graduate medical education (GME) trainees, continuing its commitment to preparing the next generation of medical professionals and improving healthcare across the Commonwealth.

A growing body of research suggests that sleep may be more than a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease — it may also play a role in how the disease develops and progresses.

Project(s): Albert B. Chandler Hospital Expansion & Enabling Projects
Areas Impacted: University Drive Garage, Veterans Drive, and University Drive

Greg A. Gerhardt, Ph.D., a professor in the UK College of Medicine’s Department of Neuroscience and holds the Charles D. Lucas Jr. Professorship for Parkinson’s Disease Research, has been honored as a 2026-27 University Research Professor.

Growing up in Alexandria, Ky., Rachael Whittaker, MD ’22, remembers long drives for routine medical care. Oftentimes, it meant traveling an hour north to Cincinnati and sometimes, even farther, depending on the need.  

Pastor Richard Gaines has served as the Senior Pastor of Consolidated Baptist Church here in Lexington for 30 years. During his tenure as senior pastor, Rev. Gaines has been treated twice at the University of Kentucky’s Markey Cancer Center. 

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.