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.

A new analytical system created by University of Kentucky researchers is helping to predict and prevent opioid overdoses in Kentucky.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky are helping lead a national effort to strengthen the prevention of child sex trafficking.  

A Georgetown, Ky., native, Katie Land came to UK as an undergraduate largely for practical reasons: in-state tuition and proximity to home. At the time, the first-generation college student had her sights set on medical school.  

In 2014, the United States experienced its first known cases of Ebola virus disease transmission between a patient and health care workers.

After an intensive national search and selection process, UK HealthCare leadership announced Vedant Gupta, MD, has been selected as the director of the Gill Heart & Vascular Institute and leader of the cardiovascular health se

There’s a virus within a bacterium within a parasite, and University of Kentucky researchers are figuring out how to make them kill each other.

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