Mary Vore was recently awarded the 2014 William R. Willard Award. This award is the College’s highest honor given to individuals who have made singular contributions to the College’s missions in research, teaching and service. Educated at Asbury College, Mary obtained her Ph.D. in pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. She returned to Kentucky as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and rose through the ranks to Professor in 1986.

Sterling Heights, Mich. (November 3, 2014) – Ernie Scott, director of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health (KORH), has received the 2014 Emerging Leader Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH).  Scott received his award at a ceremony on October 28th during the organization’s annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska.

Finding out your child is seriously ill would be heartrending for any parent. But what if your child became gravely ill at just 15 days old, and medical professionals gave you little hope that he would survive? What if those first few years passed, and your child never took his first steps and you had limited or no access to medical care?

University of Kentucky researchers led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice-chair in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky, have made revealing discoveries about the precise mechanisms of retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) death in the late stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The findings were released last week in the Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry AMD characterized by death of the RPE, causes untreatable blindness in millions worldwide.

Most federally-funded grants are currently governed in part by a section of the Code of Federal Regulations known as “Uniform Guidance.”  These regulations address, amongst other things, the allocation of costs to projects.  Uniform Guidance states: “If a cost benefits two or more projects or activities in proportions that can be determined without undue effort or cost, the cost should be allocated to the projects based on the proportional benefit.”  If the proportional benefit cannot be determined because of the interrelationship of the work, the costs

A team from The University of Kentucky's Neurosurgery Residents program placed second in their first year of competition at The Congress of Neurological Surgery Resident Academic Competition. Dr. Steven Grupke and Dr. Farhan Mirza were the two residents selected for the team. The live competition, which was held at the annual congress in Boston in Oct. 15-22, featured the top nine teams from an initial pool of 105 neurosurgery resident programs from the United States and Canada.
In 2014, UK medical students matched into 22 different specialties for residency. Twenty-one percent elected to stay within the UK HealthCare system, and an additional nine percent elected to stay in Kentucky for residency.

Notice of Clarification of 4-Year Limit of Postdoctoral Research Eligibility for K99 Applicants for PA-14-042 “NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00)”

Notice of Revised NIH Definition of “Clinical Trial”


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NOT-OD-15-015

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Release Date: October 23, 2014

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ANATOMIST AND STUDENTS FROM UK CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN RURAL HEALTH PRESENT RESEARCH FINDINGS AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE

HAZARD, Ky. (Aug. 1) – Findings of research conducted by Dr. Charles Marshall and doctoral students at the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences Department of Physical Therapy were presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists in Orlando, FL, July 8-12.