KL2 Program Creates Momentum for Junior Faculty and UK's Research Enterprise
For junior faculty with clinical and/or teaching responsibilities, it's difficult to find enough time to prioritize their own research. On top of time constraints, junior faculty members often have limited experience in the precise art of writing successful federal grant applications and managing large grants. It takes time, training, and funding to accelerate a research career. The KL2 Career Development Program provides these resources to investigators to do just that.
New UK Study Shows Potential for Targeting Aggressive Breast Cancers
A new study led by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researcher Peter Zhou shows that targeting Twist, a nuclear protein that is an accelerant of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) program in human cells, may provide an effective approach for treating triple-negative breast cancer.
Triple-negative breast cancer has an activated EMT program, which is a process that provides cells with the increased plasticity (or flexibility) to adapt to stressed environments during embryonic development, wound healing, tissue fibrosis and metastasis.
Office of Sponsored Projects Administration Adds a New Webpage - "Investigator's Survival Guide"
The Office of Sponsored Projects Administration has created a new webpage entitled "Investigator's Survival Guide". This new page offers guidance to investigators at on topics ranging form Proposal Submission to Responsible Conduct of Research. To view the page, click here.
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center Now Accepting Applications for the 2014 Saha Awards
Saha Awards for Cardiovascular Research and Education
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
2014 Saha Awards
Awards Announcement
Center for Molecular Medicine
The thematic focus of the Center for Molecular Medicine, an NIGMS funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), is on understanding the molecular basis of human disease. The Center through an NIH/NIGMS P30 grant supports pilot projects and four cores: the Administrative, Protein, Genetic Technologies, and Organic Synthesis cores. The Protein, Genetic Technologies, and Organic Synthesis cores are run as recharges centers with costs supplementated by the P30 COBRE grant.
Nutritional Sciences
The mission of Nutritional Sciences is to train highly skilled nutritional scientists equipped to tackle critical nutrition-related disease and health issues and pursue promising careers in the rapidly expanding nutritional sciences field. One of the Division’s primary areas of research and training targets nutrition and chronic diseases, with a focus on obesity and associated disorders of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Other specialty areas include nutrition and oxidative stress, nutrition and aging, clinical nutrition, animal nutrition and food science.
Passion for Emergency Medicine Earns UK Student National Scholarship
A career in emergency medicine requires a commitment to helping patients in the most critical situations. For demonstrating her passion for this field, University of Kentucky medical student Jennifer Cotton has received a $500 scholarship from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine/Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA).
As part of the honor, Cotton was invited to be recognized during the 20th Annual AAEM Scentific Assembly in New York, on Feb. 12. Nominations for the AAEM/RSA Student Scholarship were accepted in the fall of 2013.
UK HealthCare Announces Plans to Lease, Renovate Former Dillard's Store
UK HealthCare has announced plans to lease and renovate the former Dillard's location at Turfland Mall on Harrodsburg Road for consolidation and relocation of some of its primary care and specialty outpatient clinics.
UK HealthCare will be the anchor tenant for the first floor of the building utilizing approximately 85,000 square feet, officials said.
American Medical Association President to Provide UKCOP Advocacy Day Lecture
Ardis Dee Hoven, President of the American Medical Association (AMA), will provide a special guest lecture as part of the UK College of Pharmacy’s Advocacy Day at noon on February 5, 2014 in room 124 of the BioPharm Complex.
Dr. Hoven, who became the 168th president of the AMA in June 2013, will deliver her talk “The AMA, Pharmacists and the Future of Healthcare,” addressing the importance of physician-pharmacist collaboration and pharmacists as a crucial member of the physician-led healthcare team.
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