UK Center on Drug and Alcohol Research director Sharon Walsh will deliver the honorary Marian W. Fischman Lectureship during the College on Drug Dependence Annual Conference, June 17-22 in Montreal, Canada. Memorializing the late research pioneer Marian Fischman, the lectureship is bestowed to a woman scientist who has created transformative change in the field of drug abuse research.

On Friday, June 16th, 2017 Jenna Gollihue, mentored by Dr. Sasha Rabchevsky, successfully defended her dissertation and earned her PhD. 

[From the NIH website]

NIH Reminds Recipients to Submit Complete, Timely and Accurate Progress and Financial Reports


Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-074

Key Dates
Release Date: June 5, 2017

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Procard Reminder -- Using a UK-issued standard Procard to purchase a payment card from a vendor is a violation of the Procard policy. Standard Procards cannot be used to access cash, which includes any type of cash equivalent.  A payment card from a vendor would be considered a cash equivalent because it establishes an upfront balance to be utilized at a later date.  

The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association recently honored UK HealthCare's Kentucky Neuroscience Institute (KNI) with the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and the Target Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Award. This achievement recognizes UK HealthCare’s commitment and success in adhering to the most current evidence-based stroke treatment guidelines for stroke patient care and outcomes. To receive the Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke achievement i

Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Faculty Members Beth Garvy, Charlie Lutz, Subbarao Bondada and University of Louisville Faculty Member Michele Kosiewicz (UL) represented the American Assoication of Immunologists on a visit to Capitol Hill at the close of IMMUNOLOGY 2017.   The faculty members also met with Staffers from Rep Andy Barr, Sen Rand Paul, and Sen Mitch McConnell.  All were supportive of NIH.

Dysfunction of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) has been implicated in the etiologies of many cardiovascular diseases, including aortic aneurysm. In particular, the infusion of angiotensin II (Ang II) in the apolipoprotein E-deficient mice (apoE-/-) and low density lipoprotein receptor knockout mice (LDLR-/-) to induce aortic aneurysm has been extensively used in the field. In contrast, whether aldosterone (Aldo), an essential component of RAAS and a downstream effector of Ang II, is involved in aortic aneurysm is largely unknown.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus was held Tuesday, June 6 at The Medical Center at Bowling Green.

[From the NIH Website]

Additional Change to the NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Policy on Post-Submission Materials


Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-066

Key Dates
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Implementation Date: Applications submitted for due dates on or after September 25, 2017  

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