Registration 19th Annual Gill Heart Institute
Cardiovascular Research Day Closes on October 21.

19th Annual Gill Heart Institute
Cardiovascular Research Day

November 4, 2016
Lexington Convention Center 

From the NIH Website:

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including NIH, operates under the "Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act" (Public Law 114-223) signed by President Obama on September 29, 2016. This Act (CR) continues government operations through December 9, 2016 at 99.504 percent of the FY 2016 enacted level.

Reimbursement of Travel Expenses, E-5-1 has been updated and attached for your review. The policy primarily was updated to address TRIP functionality and clarify areas certain compliance concerns.  

Please forward any comments/questions to Patty Brophy by 10/21/16. Another notification will be sent when policy published to the web.  

Fall 2016 Graduate RA tuition expenses from the Graduate School will be posting at the end of October.  Please make sure cost objects have been provided for each student to be charged according to the Graduate School deadlines.   

In order to charge RA tuition to a sponsored project all of the following criteria must be met:

THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD)

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 

Multidisciplinary researchers unified by a mission to develop therapies, interventions and evidence-based solutions to substance use disorders delivered snapshots of their work to National Institute on Drug Abuse director Dr. Nora Volkow on Oct. 7. The series of presentations and roundtable discussion concluded Volkow’s two-day tour of Kentucky.
Alex Wade, a third year medical student in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, wanted to give at-risk high school students opportunities they may not have known about and the chance to learn that they have the skills necessary to solve complex medical and surgical problems, even when they’re not taught how up front. To provide these opportunities, Wade founded the Medical Technologies Innovation Team. Students who participate in the program are not given a set format for solving the design problem, they choose their own groups to work in and set their own goals.

U.S. Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers along with top leaders from the National Institutes of Health spent Thursday in Hazard discussing and examining efforts to combat high rates of cancer and substance abuse disorders plaguing Kentucky's Appalachian region.

Registration is now open for the Ashland Inc. Distinguished Lectures & Symposium on Drug Discovery & Development to be held on Friday, November 4 in the W. T. Young Library. 

Please register here: www.ukalumni.net/pharmsymp2016

Third-year medical student Perry Hooper won big at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s annual Academic Convocation and Awards Day held recently. Hooper won four awards, the most of any student, including the Cobern E. Ott Award and Anatomy Student Mentor Program Award. Hooper earned two degrees during his time as an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky, a Bachelor of Science in Spanish and Biology. When the time came to decide where to continue his medical education, UK was high on Hooper’s list. “I knew immediately after my interview here that this where I wanted to be.