The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, and Gill Heart Institute, saw a huge turnout for their 18th Annual, Cardiovascular Research Day. During dinner, we had the esteemed pleasure to present four Saha Awards. The awardees demonstrated creativity, dedication, and knowledge in areas of cardiovascular research, prevention, and patient-education. The 2015 recipients are as follows:

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University of Kentucky College of Medicine Professor Rebecca Dutch has been named President-Elect for the American Society for Virology (ASV). The American Society of Virology, comprised of over 3,000 members from around the globe, was founded in 1981 to provide a forum for discussion and collaboration for investigators of human, animal, insect, plant, fungal and bacterial viruses. ASV sponsors a large annual meeting, promotes communication about virology research to the broader community, and represents virologists on national and international scientific councils.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 30, 2015) — Eight community leaders have been selected to participate in the second annual Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky (CLIK). The program empowers community leaders and organizations to reduce health disparities, leverage funding, and use data to improve services and programs.

 

University of Kentucky medical student and doctoral candidate Scott Thalman, who is developing novel imaging techniques for identifying early risk factors for sudden cardiac death, received the Halcomb Fellowship for researchers in medicine and engineering. The fellowship supports a graduate student in the University of Kentucky Colleges of Engineering and Medicine who is involved in interdisciplinary research in the field of biomedical engineering. Now a biomedical engineering student, Thalman studied solid-state physics at Brigham Young University before entering the joint medical degree
UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) is hosting its fifth annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia on Nov. 20-21. This two day program will offer sessions for both scientific and community audiences. Clinicians and researchers from the University of Kentucky and other institutions will come together to share current findings, trends and the latest updates on dementia and aging disorders, particularly as related to Alzheimer’s disease. The Markesbery Symposium is in honor of the late Dr. William R.

Joint efforts are underway by NIH and leading journals to enhance reproducibility in scientific research through increased rigor and transparency in study design, conduct and data reporting. 

Please join us to learn more about current expectations and opportunities to address these requirements for grant funding and publishing research. 

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Office of the Vice President for Research Good Research Practice Resource Center 

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.

If you are applying for an NIH grant this fall, such as an R01, and will be using the new online ASSIST proposal submission system, now is a great time to update your eRA Commons profile.  Your profile information will auto-populate in your ASSIST proposal package.  To update your eRA Commons profile, please log-in to Commons at: https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons.