UK Medical Student Works to Improve Access and Understanding of Medicine and Engineering
National Institutes of Health Directors Join Rogers and Health Leaders In Hazard, KY
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 Ashland Inc. Distinguished Lectures & Symposium on Drug Discovery & Development
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 UK Medical Student Wins Big at 2016 Academic Convocation and Awards Day
2016 Summer Camp Recap
This past summer, the University of Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC) sponsored the four-week Summer Enrichment Program Camp for rising high school juniors and the two-week Health Researchers Youth Academy camp for rising high school seniors.
UK Center for Health Services Research Collaborates to Study Chronic Conditions
Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) affects one in four Americans overall and about three in four Americans age 65 and older. While health care aims to relieve suffering and alleviate burden, it sometimes makes burdensome demands of patients. Patients must invest capacity — time, emotion, and attention — to do the work of being a patient, which competes with other important tasks in their lives.
Sanders-Brown Research Hints at Underlying Cause for Alzheimer's Drug Trial Failures
PILOT FUNDING FROM THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD)
The NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases, in collaboration with the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) announce the availability of limited funds to support pilot projects focused on research examining obesity-associated diseases (cardiovascular, diabetes, others). These pilot grants are intended to assist investigators new to this area of research to generate sufficient data to be competitive for extramural funding.
Multidisciplinary Value Program Boosts Team Science to Address Kentucky Health Challenges
Six teams of researchers and physician scientists have become the inaugural recipients of pilot funding from the new Multidisciplinary Value Program (MVP), which aims to boost team science that will impact University of Kentucky patients and wellbeing in the Commonwealth. Each MVP team will launch a new clinical trial that brings cutting-edge science to patients and communities.
UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health Academic Open House
The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health is hosting an Academic Open House on October 18th from 5:30pm-7:30pm.
Join us to learn about how you can earn a Bachelor’s in Medical Laboratory Science, Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, Master of Social Work or a Doctorate in Physical Therapy.
