Orren/Machwe Study Linking Premature Aging and Cancer Development to Defective Telomeric Recombination Featured in Nature Communications
Led by Drs. David Orren and Amrita Machwe of the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology and the Markey Cancer Center and conducted jointly by recent Ph.D. graduate Deanna Edwards and Dr. Machwe, this article was published online in the September 30 issue of the prestigious, interdisciplinary scientific journal Nature Communications. The research clarifies a putative telomeric maintenance function for the WRN protein that is defective in the cancer-prone and premature aging hereditary disease, Werner syndrome.
Experimental cancer treatment to be focus of first Hangin’ With Zwisch research colloquium
Sabine Brouxhon, MD, a new member of the UK Department of Surgery research faculty, will present an overview of her findings into a promising cancer treatment strategy at the inaugural “Hangin’ With Zwisch” research colloquium at noon, Tuesday, October 20, in the MN 263 auditorium.
UK Neurosurgery Residents Win Academic Challenge Competition
A team from the University of Kentucky's Neurosurgery Residency Program was recently named the winner of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Academic Challenge Competition. Dr. Steve Grupke and Dr. Farhan Mirza were the two residents who competed in the game show style competition that took place at the 2015 CNS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La. They competed among teams from 105 Neurosurgery programs in North America and one from New Delhi, India.
MIMG Students Present Research Papers at International Meeting
Fukuda Receives Prestigious Awards Given to Outstanding Japanese Researchers
The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center Welcomes New Faculty
The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center would like to introduce two new faculty members:
Dr. Z comes down with a case of Chicago blues
UK department of surgery faculty, along with a contingent of divisional chief residents, made many positive contributions to the American College of Surgeons annual Clinical Congress in Chicago during the first week of October. But few made as memorable an impression as surgery department chair Dr. Jay Zwischenberger during the Board of Governor’s dinner.
Among his many professional interests, Zwischenberger is an advocate of music therapy and well-known among peers and the UK campus for his prowess on the “blues harp.”
For Saha Researcher, Love for Science is in the Blood
CT Surgery Symposium welcomes over 40 Saturday morning
The 2015 edition of the CT Surgery Symposium covered a wide range of topics on Saturday morning, Oct. 3 for an audience of approximately 40 attendees.
Following welcome remarks from Sibu Saha, MD, MBA, chair of the division of CT Surgery, and Jay Zwischenberger, chair of the department of Surgery, 10 presentations were scheduled to follow. Unfortunately, the presentation on “Percutaneous Approaches to Structural heart Disease” had to be postponed due to Dr. John Gurley being called away.
Clinical Trial Administration Support Project
At the Sr. ADR’s request, and with Dean de Beer’s approval, a decision was made in summer 2015 to engage the services of an outside consultant to guide the process of establishing an enterprise-level centralized support structure within the existing Sponsored Research Administrative Services (SRAS) office for administrative, financial, and regulatory activities related to clinical research activity – industry, government, and internally sponsored.