This Notice serves to announce that NIH anticipates adopting new research training data table formats in FY 2016 for use with institutional training grant applications and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs).  Where specifi

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Loan Repayment Program will conduct a technical assistance webinar on Thursday, July 30, 2015 from 4:00 to 5:00 PM EDT (3:00 PM CDT; 2:00 PM MDT; 1:00 PM PDT; 12:00

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To most people, a "family doctor" is who they visit when they aren’t feeling their best. For Dr. Ana Lia Castellanos, the term takes on a whole new meaning. Castellanos, a nephrologist with the University of Kentucky Transplant Center, comes from a family of physicians – her father, uncle and cousin are practicing nephrologists in her home country of Honduras.
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The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health, the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, and the UK CCTS Community Engagement and Research Program are requesting applications for the Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky (CLIK), a 4-5 week intensive leadership development training program. The CLIK is designed to enhance research and capacity-building competencies in community leaders (e.g., directors, administrators, and other persons who play a key role in using data and decision making). There are 8-12 slots available for the 2015 class.

 

Positioned beside a large poster and wearing a short white lab coat, high school student Julie Volpeheim rationalized findings from a study on Kawasaki’s Disease in the UK College of Pharmacy Atrium. Volpeheim, who spent the past two weeks immersed in scholarly research at the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Heath Researchers Youth Academy, employed the terminology of a doctoral-level student to describe the study’s methodology and results.

Please remember to keep your NIH eRA Commons profile current.  Incomplete or out of date information in your profile can delay your NIH proposal and progress report submissions and those on which you may be key personnel.  Further details can be found here.

The SRAS is moving!  On Tuesday, July 28, the SRAS will relocate to a new, on-campus site in the basement of the Kentucky Clinic.  We will be in Rooms K005 and K009, which are readily accessible via the elevator near the Kentucky Clinic Pharmacy.  Phone numbers will remain the same for all staff.  We expect the computer (and email) downtime to be minimal during the move. 

Macrophages are cellular sentinels in the body, assigned to identify “attacks” from viruses, bacteria or fungi and sound the alarm when they are present.
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  Resident Sarah Deraney, MD, won the first place Poster or Exhibit Trainee Prize at the Annual Meeting of Association of University Radiologists (AUR) in New Orleans in April. 

Her poster was titled “Pediatric Head CT Protocol Optimization: Simultaneously Lowering Radiation Dose and Eliminating Artifacts.” It is the same poster that won the 1st Annual Department of Radiology Quality & Safety Forum last May.