The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, a world leader in Alzheimer's research and community outreach, will hold its 10th annual Markesbery Symposium. There will be a community session and scientific session, each held via Zoom.

Community Session
Keynote:
Maria Carrillo, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, National Alzheimer's Association

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020
9:55 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Register Here
 

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UK HealthCare's Kentucky Children’s Hospital and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Joint Heart Program is opening an outreach clinic at PrimaryPlus-Ashland. Beginning Oct. 9, pediatric cardiologists Louis Bezold III and Bradley Keller will see pediatric and adult congenital heart patients patients on the second and fourth Fridays of every month.

If trick-or-treating is permitted in your community, please trick-or-treat the safe way.  Kentucky Public Health is offering guidance that is designed to help curb the spread of COVID-19. It will be reassessed and updated as the situation evolves and more is learned in the weeks leading up to Halloween.

A position is available in the Department of Physiology. The position is to assist with tissue culture, electrophysiology, molecular biology and biochemistry techniques. S/he will be responsible for performing many of the proposed experiments. The applicant will need to isolate different types of mouse cardiomyocytes (nodal, atrial, ventricular) to perform single cell electrophysiology. The electrophysiology experiments include acquisition and analysis of voltage and current clamp data.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 9, 2020) — Allan Butterfield, a professor of biological chemistry in the University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences, has been named among the world’s leading Alzheimer’s disease experts by Expertscape, an online base of biomedical expertise.

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For more information about Dr. Mirza, visit here.

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UK neurosurgeon spurred to action after witnessing impact of brain diseases

May 7, 2019 / In Neurology & Brain Health, Our People / By UK HealthCare

A research abstract from a University of Kentucky third year medical student, Jacob Hubbuch, was awarded first place in the Education, Innovation, and Outcomes category of the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Medical Student research program. The research was among three top finishers featured at the ACS 2020 Virtual Clinical Congress on Saturday morning, October 3.