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A fellow and resident duo from the UK division of CT Surgery were named one of the top six two-person teams in the annual North American Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident “Jeopardy” competition sponsored by the Joint Council on Thoracic Surgery Education (JCTSE). The UK team will participate in the Jeopardy finals during the annual meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA) in November.

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D. Allan Butterfield, professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA), has been awarded a $413,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a new model of Parkinson's disease (PD). PD is the second most common age-related neurodegenerative disease in the United States and is manifested by movement abnormalities, postural instability, loss of smell (anosmia), deposition of the protein, alpha-synuclein, and in late stages, cognitive dysfunction.

The CT Surgery Symposium 2015, co-sponsored by the UK Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (CT Surgery), UK HealthCare, and CE Central, will feature 10 presentations on advances in the surgical management of cardiothoracic disease on Saturday morning, October 3, in the Pavilion A auditorium of UK Hospital.

LEXINGTON, Ky , Sept. 21, 2015 – In response to the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in the Commonwealth, UK HealthCare announced the creation of the UK Vascular Medicine Clinic in the Kentucky Clinic.

A University of Kentucky doctoral student in the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) served as a major contributor to a scientific reference book about emerging concepts in stem cell developmental biology, research, therapy, politics and ethics. Dr.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) awarded Haining Zhu, a professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, a three-year, $300,000 grant to study the underlying mechanisms of ALS. In an effort to accelerate treatments and cures for neuromuscular diseases, the MDA distributed $10 million in grants this summer to scientists conducting significant research on muscular dystrophy, ALS and other muscle-debilitating diseases. Zhu’s research seeks to understand the mutations of the Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) gene, which is a known cause of ALS.