Campus Wide Research Offices Holiday Hours
The Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, the Proposal Development Office, the Office of Research Integrity–IRB, the Survey Research Center and the COM Sponsored Research Administrative Services offices will be closed Monday, December 26, 2016 through Monday, January 2, 2017 and will reopen on Tuesday, January
eRA Information: Final RPPR To Be Used Effective Jan. 1, 2017
The Final Research Performance Progress Report (F-RPPR) will replace the Final Progress Report (FPR) for grants closeout, effective January 1, 2017. The F-RPPR will be available for use in eRA Commons on January 1, 2017.
NOTE: For small businesses, the new F-RPPR will be in effect at least 2 months later, due to the unique final reporting requirements that they face under the SBIR/STTR policy directive.
Considering a Project with an Industry Sponsor? Contact your GPS for Assistance.
For faculty members who are working with industry sponsors (non-clinical trial) for their research projects, please contact your COM Sponsored Research Administrative Services (SRAS) Grants Proposal Specialist (GPS), who can assist you during the time that you are negotiating your budget figures with the sponsor. Your GPS can assist with:
Answering your questions about what costs are allowable on industry-sponsored agreements.
UK Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Helps Young Athlete Regain Abilities
Tori Stromp Successfully Defends Her Dissertation
Congratulations Tori Stromp, PhD! Tori successfully defended her dissertation on November 28, 2016.
"Development and Application of Gadolinium Free Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fibrosis Imaging for
Multi-Scale Study of Heart Failure in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease"
Clinging to Life, Markey Patient Saved by Clinical Trial
Hollie Swanson: Publishing a manuscript as a class project....
The recent publication of the manuscript entitled "Current and Emerging Uses of Statins in Clinical Therapeutics: A Review" with my co-authors (Jonathan T. Davies, Spencer F. Delfino, Chad E. Feinberg, Meghan F. Johnson, Veronica L. Nappi, Joshua T. Olinger and Anthony P. Schwab) represents a milestone of a year-long, collaborative endeavor.
Dunnington advocates skills labs, immediate post-surgical feedback to improve resident autonomy and operative performance
By Josh Shepherd, UK Department of Surgery
Spinal Cord Injury Research with the Gensel Lab
John Gensel, an assistant professor in the physiology department and the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, and two members of his lab team—Bei Zhang and Taylor Otto—are featured in this podcast.
Taylor Otto, an undergraduate lab assistant in Gensel’s lab, described UK as being the full package. “We have it all here. It’s a good program to be able to come into, not really knowing what you want to exactly do in the science field, but being able to figure it out at the same time,” said Otto.
Behind the Blue: Conversation With College of Medicine Dean DiPaola
In the spring of 2016, the University of Kentucky hired Dr. Robert DiPaola as the new dean for the UK College of Medicine. He had previously been the director of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and vice chancellor for cancer programs at the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Center.
