Grant Funds Continued Study of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome
Two researchers from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have received a multi-million dollar grant renewal to unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and brain aging with the help of people with Down syndrome (DS).
Is Your Profile Page Up To Date?
One of the many services offered through the College of Medicine website is a profile page. All faculty, staff and trainees of the College of Medicine have a page specific to them. These pages offer a standardized format to display a professional photo, research interests, selected publications and pub med listings along with information such as lab personnel. When we review website traffic, we see that these profile pages are some of the most popular portions of our website, thus we want to encourage everyone to keep their page up to date.
Hollie Swanson works with STEMCats project, "Drug Interactions in Breast Cancer"
Charity Toast and Casino Night
Join the UK COM students for the 2nd Annual Charity Toast and Casino Night on Friday, May 8, 2015 from 7-11:30 p.m. at the Barrel House Events Center. Socialize and play casino games as students honor Dr. Brian Adkins.
Click here to view the flyer for this event.
Proceeds will benefit the UK Salvation Army Clinic.
RSVP to ukcom.msga@gmail.com.
Fowlkes Returns to UK to Lead Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Center
PDO Offers Final Biosketch Training Before May Deadline
New NIH Biosketch Format – Required on May 25
The new five-page biosketch format is required for all NIH proposals due on or after May 25, 2015. To help you get ready for this change, the Proposal Development Office invites UK staff and faculty to a workshop --
NIH Releases Updates to Website Outlining the Peer Review Process
NIH has recently updated their website that provides context for the NIH Peer Review Process. With the contributions of NIH staff, the site offers new and improved content. The goal of the site is to connect the What, When, Why, and How of the NIH Peer Review. This site’s primary audience is the NIH reviewer. The site provides information to better understand the “do’s and don’ts” of each step of the review process including links to the eRA video tutorial series.