Kentucky Office of Rural Health Director Honored with 2018 James D. Bernstein Mentoring Award
Kentucky Office of Rural Health Director Ernie Scott received the 2018 James D. Bernstein Mentoring Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) on Oct. 17 at the group’s annual meeting in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
UK hosts resident surgical skills competition with the University of Louisville
The General Surgery residency programs at the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville competed in a resident skills competition during the annual meeting of the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Surgeons on Friday afternoon, October 12. The University of Louisville prevailed as overall competition champion, but individual winners were evenly split between the two programs.
UKnow: Joint Pediatric Heart Care Program Celebrates 100 Surgical Cases
Joint Pediatric Heart Care Program Celebrates 100 Surgical Cases
It's been over three years since UK HealthCare's Kentucky Children's Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center entered into an ambitious partnership to provide pediatric heart surgery services to the families of Kentucky.
PILOT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY - CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD) -Application due Monday, November 26, 2018 by 5:00 pm.
THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD)
DPNS Students provide tips for Men's Health-MOVEMBER
Congratulations to Dave Schnell, PhD, Adam Ghoweri, Kai Zhang and Nicole Robinson for getting their article published in the Health&Wellness November 2018 issue
Recent Faculty Publication: "A novel tetracycline-responsive transgenic mouse strain for skeletal muscle-specific gene expression."
View full publication here.
Recent Faculty Publication: Reporting Sex and Sex Differences in Preclinical Studies
Hong S. Lu*, Ann Marie Schmidt , Robert A. Hegele , Nigel Mackman , Daniel J. Rader , Christian Weber , and Alan Daugherty*
Barnstable Brown Family Honored with the University of Kentucky All-American Award
The Barnstable Brown family is well-known for a long list of accomplishments and accolades, as well as a long-standing connection to the University of Kentucky. Twins Patricia and Priscilla are former University of Kentucky cheerleaders, and their father, Dale, had an outstanding college basketball career, playing an integral role in UK basketball’s first two championship wins.
Liu Joins Markey as Chair of Toxicology and Cancer Biology
Renowned biochemist Xiaoqi Liu, Ph.D., has been named chair of the University of Kentucky Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology.
Liu’s research involves the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer with the goal of using this information to create new avenues for cancer therapy. His work specifically focuses on an enzyme known as Polo-like kinase 1, which plays a central role in controlling cell division and exists at abnormally high levels in many types of cancers, including prostate, pancreatic, melanoma and lung cancers.
