Jan. 12 or Jan. 13: What’s New at the NIH? Requirements to Address Rigor and Transparency in Research

Please join Gina Vessels, SRAS Post Award Manager, for one of our informational sessions on the monthly financial reports distributed by Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) for grant accounts. There will be a general review of the report structure and discussion of the information within the report, and there will be ample time for questions and discussion after the presentation.

A Word about an “Honorarium” and the Proposal Budget:

The Dermatology Clinic at the University of Kentucky will soon relocate to the first floor of UK HealthCare Clinics at Turfland on Harrodsburg Road. The clinic will open on February 15, 2016.

Jennifer Lackey, RN, Ambulatory Services Director for UK HealthCare’s Department of Surgery clinics, said that relocating the Dermatology clinic to Turfland from its space in the Good Samaritan medical office building on Maxwell Street will allow for department growth and improved access for patients.

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Ishmael Hibbard, 56, was just reaching for the television remote control when sharp pains across his shoulder blades drove him down to one knee. He bit his lip so hard, it drew blood. Hibbard didn’t think it was a heart attack, but the Manchester, Kentucky native knew he needed to get to the emergency room right away.

His wife, Judy, was at work so it fell to his teenage son, Ben Hibbard, to drive him to the Manchester Memorial Hospital emergency room for treatment.

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After well over two decades into practice, it’s sometimes difficult for physicians to recall what led them to their particular specialty. Dr. Alan Fleischer, Jr., however, can recall the exact moment when he decided to specialize in Dermatology.

It was during a rotation in the field while a medical student at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  His professor and another visiting dermatologist examined a patient suffering from a condition that no one had yet correctly diagnosed.

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In a recent article in the journal Nature Biotechnology, University of Kentucky Assistant Professor Nathan Vanderford and doctoral candidate Heather Norman-Burgdolf describe a course developed to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows be prepared for the realities of the job market. Every year, doctoral graduates enter the job market in search of tenure-track professorship positions at universities throughout the world. Unfortunately, the number of new Ph.D.
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Effective January 10, 2016, NIH has increased the salary cap from $183,300 to $185,100. 

 To read the full announcement, click here.

Five days before Christmas, University of Kentucky researcher Ying Liang, MD, PhD, received what she described as the best gift ever: a letter of notification that she received a prestigious R01 grant, totaling $1.88 million over five years, from the National Institutes of Health. Not only was it her first such award, she scored at the second percentile, an uncommonly high score indicating that her proposal was nearly flawless. A glimpse of her CV and her obvious passion for research render the award somewhat less surprising.
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