The University of Kentucky has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the state of Kentucky to develop a comprehensive plan for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse by adolescents. The grant money comes from a $19 million fund administered by the Substance Abuse Treatment Advisory Committee, which was created to distribute monies garnered from settlements with two pharmaceutical companies.
The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), in conjunction with the Appalachian Translational Research Network (ATRN), has awarded funding to two projects to develop sustainable, interdisciplinary, community engaged research in Appalachia. "Raising Awareness About Lung Cancer Screening: Kentucky Terminate Lung Cancer (TLC) Study," will partner with community-based organizations and focus groups to create an awareness campaign encouraging high risk individuals to obtain lung cancer screening.

Bisphenol A Increases Atherosclerosis in Pregnane X Receptor-Humanized ApoE Deficient Mice. Sui Y, Park SH, Helsley RN, Sunkara M, Gonzalez FJ, Morris AJ, Zhou C. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Apr 22;3(2):e000492. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.113.000492. PMID: 24755147

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Platelets protect from septic shock by inhibiting macrophage-dependent inflammation via the cyclooxygenase 1 signalling pathway. Xiang B, Zhang G, Guo L, Li XA, Morris AJ, Daugherty A, Whiteheart SW, Smyth SS, Li Z. Nat Commun. 2013;4:2657. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3657. PMID: 24150174

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University of Kentucky medical student Ashley Loan eagerly anticipates the day she handles the chaos of the emergency room with a controlled calm. "I can't wait for the day I develop that calm," Loan said. "It's an eerie thing when you see a physician gain control of the room." Loan recognized the importance of a calm emergency response at a young age when her mother Elizabeth Loan performed CPR on a farmer in the fields of Greenup County. The farmer was pinned from the waist down under a turned-over tractor.
Reo Yasuma, postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has been named one of only four recipients worldwide to receive the annual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology(ARVO)/Alcon Early Career Clinician-Scientist Research Award. The ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician-Scientist Research Awards are presented annually in recognition of significant research by clinician-scientists engaged in basic or clinical vision research.
The University of Kentucky's College of Medicine Class of 2014 Graduation Ceremony will be held at 2 p.m., May 17, in the Concert Hall of the UK Singletary Center for the Arts. Doctor of Medicine degrees will be bestowed upon 115 graduates at the ceremony. This year’s ceremony marks the 51st graduation processional. Dr. Martin Gebrow, a 1964 graduate in the College’s first graduating class will hood his goddaughter, Martha (Marti) Robinson, a 2014 graduate in the 51st graduating class. During the ceremony greetings will be presented by Dr. Frederick C.

Adipose tissue macrophages promote myelopoiesis and monocytosis in obesity. Nagareddy PR, Kraakman M, Masters SL, Stirzaker RA, Gorman DJ, Grant RW, Dragoljevic D, Hong ES, Abdel-Latif A, Smyth SS, Choi SH, Korner J, Bornfeldt KE, Fisher EA, Dixit VD, Tall AR, Goldberg IJ, Murphy AJ. Cell Metab. 2014 May 6;19(5):821-35. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.03.029. PMID: 24807222

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Deficiency of the NR4A orphan nuclear receptor NOR1 in hematopoietic stem cells accelerates atherosclerosis. Qing H, Liu Y, Zhao Y, Aono J, Jones KL, Heywood EB, Howatt D, Binkley CM, Daugherty A,  Liang Y, Bruemmer D. Stem Cells. 2014 May 8. doi: 10.1002/stem.1747. [Epub] PMID: 24806827 

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In October, 2014, NIH will be launching a new system and procedures for how to report Sex/Gender, Race and Ethnicity Information in annual progress reports (both RPPRs and PHS2590s), as required by the NIH Policy on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Clinical Research.  There will be a new module included in eRA Commons for this purpose.