The Department had seven publications listed in PubMed for the month of October 2021. The contributions of our graduate students are highlighted with bold text.

1: Conroy LR, Stanback AE, Young LEA, Clarke HA, Austin GL, Liu J, Allison DB, Sun RC. <i>In Situ</i> Analysis of N-Linked Glycans as Potential Biomarkers of Clinical Course in Human Prostate Cancer. Mol Cancer Res. 2021 Oct;19(10):1727-1738. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-20-0967. Epub 2021 Jun 15. PMID: 34131069; PMCID: PMC8492534.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 5, 2021) — *NSYNC’S Joey Fatone is spinning his luck for UK HealthCare’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center during an upcoming episode of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.” Fatone has been a faithful attendee through the years of the star-studded Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala.

The University of Kentucky football team has invigorated the campus community with one of the best seasons in the program’s recent history. In October, the Wildcats earned an exhilarating win over Florida, as well as a 21-point victory over 2019 national champion LSU.   

Sellout crowds have cheered on the team from the stands, and many more have tuned in on TV. Meanwhile, three College of Medicine faculty members spend each game – and the week leading up to the game – hard at work.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine recently held its 3^rd Annual Pumpkin Carving. The event was started as a way to promote resident wellness, encourage creativity, and celebrate the spooky season. UK Recycling provided composting bins for the department. Faculty donated several carved pumpkins to the McConnell Springs Jack-o-Lantern trail. Everyone looks forward to continuing this annual tradition in the years to come!

Browse a gallery of images from this year's Pumpkin Carving below. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 2, 2021) — A recent study shows that patients with non-small cell lung cancer reviewed by the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center’s Molecular Tumor Board experience improved outcomes, even if they reside in rural Appalachian Kentucky.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 2, 2021) — The program is set and registration is open for the 11th annual Sanders-Brown Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia. The event is named in honor and memory of the late William R. Markesbery, M.D., founding director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 1, 2021) — When Scott Kindred felt a lump in his upper right shoulder, he knew something was wrong.

As a patient care technician at UK HealthCare, he has enough medical knowledge to know when he should listen to his body. He mentioned it to Timothy Mullett, M.D., a thoracic surgeon he worked with, who ordered a PET scan. The imaging revealed a mass on Kindred’s upper right lung

A medical student will take dozens of tests before graduation and will be presented thousands of questions. As that student advances, those questions will become more complex.

Roberto Gedaly, MD, and Francesc Marti, PhD, investigators in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Surgery, have noticed a year-over-year increase in liver transplants at UK HealthCare.

“Not only has our volume gone up significantly,” Dr. Gedaly said, “we’re actually going to break a record of liver transplant patients this year.”