Dr. Gregory J. Bix of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a promising treatment for ischemic stroke. The five-year grant expands Bix's earlier research on a protein called Perlecan Domain V, which appears to foster healing after strokes caused by blood clots in the brain. "Perlecan seems to promote neurorepair in endothelial cells by blocking a receptor called A5B1 Integrin," Bix said.
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[From the NIH Website]

Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity


Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-053

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Release Date: January 12, 2015

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A mother's embrace couldn't settle a fidgety Snayder Menendez Quinones for more than a few seconds in the Pavilion A lobby of the UK Chandler Hospital. But Maria Quinones was relieved to see her 3-year-old son return to his playful self after recovering from surgery at Kentucky Children's Hospital. The timid and afraid boy who arrived at UK HealthCare on Sept. 23, 2014, was now gleeful and talkative. The sausage-like lesion on his was lip gone, replaced by a scar in the corner of his mouth.
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Registration for the Fifth Annual Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day is now open.  The deadline for abstract submissions is April 17, 2015. 
Registration deadline for the event is April 25, 2015. Details of the event, including registration and program schedule, can be found on the Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day web site





 

Scientists at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine have determined how an enzyme essential for energy metabolism functions, solving a mystery eluding molecular biologists for decades. Matthew Gentry, Ph.D, and Craig Vander Kooi, Ph.D, associate professors of molecular and cellular biochemistry, and researcher Madushi Raththagala, Ph.D, recently discovered the role of the enzyme laforin in modifying human glycogen and thereby preventing neurodegeneration.
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Friday, February 6 is National Wear Red Day. 

Wear Red
In recognition of National Wear Red Day, Go Red for Women
asks that men and women GO RED by wearing red, living a healthy lifestyle and spreading the message
that heart diseaese is killing our mothers, daughters, sisters and friends.

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A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that targeting a key enzyme and its associated metabolic programming may lead to novel drug development to treat lung cancer.

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Cell Metabolism 10th Anniversary Top 10 Breakthroughs in Immunometabolism

Now with the University of Kentucky Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, Dr. Prabhakara R. Nagareddy publication is at top of list.

Adipose Tissue Macrophages Promote Myelopoiesis and Monocytosis in Obesity

Welcome 2017-2018 Urology Interns: Vince DiCarlo Leslie Peard Nadia Romero