ATTENTION INVESTIGATORS: FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR PILOT PROGRAM

The College of Medicine and Center for Health Services Research
(in collaboration with the VPR, CCTS and UK HealthCare)
Call for Applications – Pilot Grant Funding
Value of Innovation to Implementation Program (VI2P)

A multi-site clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research (CDAR) has demonstrated the effectiveness of CAM2038, a potentially transformative buprenorphine therapy for moderate-to-severe opioid use disorders.

Radiation therapy saves countless lives, but in rare cases, it can cause a debilitating, long-term complication when used on the brain. Around three to five percent of patients who receive radiation for brain tumors, or arteriovenous malformations (AVM), develop radiation necrosis, where the brain tissue around the targeted lesion becomes injured and dies. The condition can be disabling, causing severe headaches, nausea and vomiting, cognitive problems and neural dysfunction.

In February, institutions around Lexington will celebrate Heart Month with activities that promote healthy habits such as exercise, smoking cessation, stress reduction and improved diet. 

UK HealthCare's Gill Heart Institute will focus on ways to make your diet more heart-healthy with a celebration and information about simple ingredient substitutes that can make your transition to a healthy diet easier.

Budgets for commercial, industry-funded clinical trial projects should include a one-time fee of $3,000, listed as "IRB Review Fee". The recent increase in the one-time fee for initial IRB review was implemented as a result of increased administrative and procedural compliance requirements. The current rate remains in line with national standards.

The rate of Americans suffering from food allergies, including a life-threatening peanut allergy, has dramatically increased in the past few decades. 

Peanut allergies are the leading cause of death caused by food-induced asphyxia, although death from a peanut allergy is rare. Peanut allergies typically begin during early childhood and persist into adulthood.  

Thanks to the adoption of new video-conferencing technology at UK, a record number of Kentucky high schools were able to participate in the annual interactive broadcast of a live surgery at UK Hospital last November.

Ann Coker, professor in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and Verizon Wireless Endowed Chair in the UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW), will host a presentation this Tuesday on the link between violence against women and cancer. The presentation, titled “Violence against women and cancer incidence, care and recovery,” will be held at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in room 263 of the Medical College Building (MC263). Violence against women is defined as sexual assaults or sexual abuse during childhood, and intimate partner physical, sexual or psychological abuse.
The American College of Cardiology has named Gill Heart Institute's Dr. David J. Moliterno, the new editor-in-chief of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. Moliterno is the Jack M. Gill Chair and professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky. He is also a member of the interventional cardiology faculty at the UK Gill Heart Institute.