Dr. Dennis E. Doherty, professor of medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, was recently awarded the 2015 Ohio State College of Medicine Academic Achievement Award. Doherty graduated from OSU College of Medicine in 1980. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine and Ohio State, Doherty entered the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at the University of Colorado and National Jewish Health Medical Centers in Denver. Dr.
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NIH has released its new list of planned changes to policies, forms and instructions for grant applications in 2016. 

The planned changes focus on the following areas:

The University of Kentucky Office of the Vice President for Research will hold an orientation for new faculty Tuesday, November 3, 3:30 – 5:00 pm.  This will include an opportunity to hear about the vision for Research at the University of Kentucky from the Vice President for Research, Lisa Cassis; learn about the Research Support Units that are available to support their research activities; have an opportunity to speak directly with the people in eac



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.

 

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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.

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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.  

Christina Savage and Will Arnold, MIMG doctoral students, have been invited to present results of their research in Vienna, Austria, at the International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis. Ms. Savage will give a talk on her studies on how the Borrelia burgdorferi SpoVG protein controls bacterial replication, and Mr. Arnold will present a poster describing his work on gene regulation by the bacterial master regulator, BpuR. Both are students in the laboratory of Professor Brian Stevenson, who will also present an invited talk on the laboratory¹s research.
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Dr. Shinichi Fukuda, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati at the University of Kentucky's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has received two prestigious awards to advance his research of dry macular degeneration. . The "Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad of Japan Society for the Promotion Science," presented by the Japan Society for the Promotion Science, is a two-year award given to foster highly capable researchers with wide international perspectives.
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The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center would like to introduce two new faculty members:

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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.”