LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 23, 2022) — Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine and College of Engineering have joined forces to track the virus’ presence in the community using wastewater testing.
March Madness Q&A with Dr. Kaiser, Physician for UK Women’s Basketball
Kimberly Kaiser, MD, is an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine and family and community medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She is also one of the physicians who provides care for the UK women’s basketball team. In the following Q&A, she shares more about her clinical expertise, her passion for sports medicine, and why her experience with UK Athletics has been so rewarding.
Q: As a team physician, what are your roles with the basketball team?
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Sanders-Brown Researcher Part of Study Aiming to More Accurately Identify Disease Variants
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 1, 2022) — A researcher with the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is part of a team who worked to identify genetic variants more accurately in genomic regions known to be involved in disease. In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all genetic information for an organism. The basis of the study was that the repetitive nature and complexity of some medically relevant genes pose a challenge to accurately analyze in a clinical setting.
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Dr. Jessica Adkins Murphy Elected to 2021-2022 EMRA Board of Directors
Markey's ACTION Program Announces Second Edition of Book
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 28, 2022) – The ACTION Program is publishing the second edition of their book, “The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia: Kentucky Students Take ACTION,” after their first edition was released in 2020.
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Congratulations Ben Shaw, PhD
On Friday, February 25, 2022, Ben Shaw successfully defended his dissertation and earned his doctoral degree. Congratulations, Dr. Shaw!
IMMUNOREGULATORY RECEPTOR GENETICS, EXPRESSION, AND SPLICING STUDIES IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
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UK's Disease Detectives Use Wastewater Testing to Monitor COVID Infection Trends
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UK's Disease Detectives Use Wastewater Testing to Monitor COVID Infection Trends
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine and College of Engineering have joined forces to track the virus’ presence in the community using wastewater testing.
In addition to providing local disease surveillance, the collaboration across disciplines has generated $4.7 million in external federal funding to support two research projects involving the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.
Led by Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine James Keck, M.D., and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Scott Berry, Ph.D., t
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As a Pediatrician and Foster Parent, Dr. Weddle Gives Children Hope
University of Kentucky SCoBIRC research team provides exciting evidence for delayed treatment of TBI
A study by UK SCoBIRC was recently published in Brain. The study shows that delayed mitochondrial-targeted therapy with pioglitazone improves functional outcomes following experimental traumatic brain injury. The manuscript led by Dr. Patrick Sullivan (Department of Neuroscience at UK and Research Physiologist at Lexington VA Healthcare System) and Dr.
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One Year Later, UK AARTS Program Exceeds Expectations
Jordon Burdette, a senior neuroscience and psychology major, was minutes away from presenting to a crowd of University of Kentucky scientists when the nerves set in. Her presentation, focused on cellular regeneration and spinal cord injury, was a culmination of a year of research she had worked on with her mentor, Warren Alilain, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience.
Burdette pushed through those nerves, and Dr. Alilain said she “crushed” it. She left feeling proud of her accomplishment and thankful for the opportunity to study a topic she didn’t expect to ever pursue.
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