Timothy Mullett, M.D., a University of Kentucky professor of cardiothoracic surgery and the medical director of the UK Markey Cancer Center Affiliate and Research Networks, joined Gov. Andy Beshear and a number of lung cancer advocacy groups at the state Capitol to recognize November as Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

Gov. Beshear encouraged Kentuckians to learn more about lung cancer, its risk factors and screening options.

Each year University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health partners with the Kentucky Rural Health Association (KRHA) to host a poster session at the KRHA annual conference. Our goal is to encourage those doing research in rural Kentucky to highlight the impact their work has or could potentially have on policies at the local, state, and national levels. Our goal is to help ensure the research is addressing rural issues at a policy level and creating change.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 17.

When Morehead State University men’s basketball player Tyzhaun Claude felt a snap during practice last year, he knew immediately something was wrong.

Claude’s team was in one of their final preseason practices before the season opener.

“We were doing a rebound drill and I went up to grab it and came down on my teammate’s foot,” Claude said.

Ten years ago, when Amrita Iyengar was pursuing an undergraduate engineering degree, she sought a program that would take her far from her hometown of Maysville, Ky. She landed on the University of California at Berkeley, which, of the schools to which she applied, was the furthest possible distance from home.

Engineering was an exciting career path. It eventually led Iyengar to building cars at Tesla and General Motors, followed by a brief stint in nanomanufacturing research at the University of Texas-Austin.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 11, 2021) — Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging recently received a five-year grant renewal of their MarkVCID program from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award total is more than $6 million. 

Tania Padilla Conde, MD, wants to make a global impact in medicine, and she’s off to a good start.

Though early in her career as a second-year ophthalmology resident at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, she already has served in health care trips in Montana, on South Dakota Indian reservations, and in Central America (Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Honduras.)

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 10, 2021) — A new program supported by the University of Kentucky’s Center for Research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW) and Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) will provide seed funding for research projects that address violence against women.