The Health Careers Enrichment Camp offered each summer by the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) and the Southeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC) has received a 2013 Innovation Award from the Appalachian Innovation Collaborative (AIC), a group whose focus is on educational excellence and economic development in Eastern Kentucky. The award was presented by former Gov.

Change in the NIH Continuous Submission Policy


Notice Number: NOT-OD-14-028

Key Dates Release Date: December 4, 2013

Related Announcements NOT-OD-11-093 NOT-OD-09-155

When healthy, the heart is an organized instrument, using well-timed electrical impulses to contract muscle and send blood circulating through the arteries and veins -- a virtual "supply wagon" that delivers oxygen and nutrients to the farthest reaches of the body. Those electrical impulses occur in a specific order through specific nerve pathways in the heart muscle and within a specific time frame -- what doctors call "normal sinus rhythm." But when disease or genetic abnormalities interfere with these impulses, the heart can misfire and struggle to contract smoothly.
The University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital was among a select group of hospitals nationwide recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for reaching gold, silver, and bronze levels of outreach for organ donation and registration. UK Chandler Hospital conducted awareness and registry campaigns to educate staff, patients, visitors, and community members about the critical need for organ, eye, and tissue donors and, by doing so, increased the number of potential donors on the state’s donor registry.

The Rabchevsky lab utilizes recombinant viral vectors encoding growth factors to transduce host cells to express specific transgenes in normal or injured spinal cord of adult rats to assess their influence on histological and behavioral outcome measures.

The University of Kentucky's Dr. James Jagger has been named the 2014 Southeastern Conference Team Physician of the Year. Jagger is an assistant professor in the UK Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine and serves as the UK chief of athletic medicine and head team physician for all UK sports. The Team Physician of the Year award is chosen by the athletic training staffs at SEC member institutions and is given annually to recognize a team physician who has contributed greatly to both his or her school's teams and to the SEC sports community.

From NIH:

NIH Reminds Applicants to Use Updated Electronic Application Forms (FORMS-C) for F, K, T and D Submissions with Due Dates on/after January 25, 2014


Notice Number: NOT-OD-14-027

Key Dates Release Date: November 27, 2013

The Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (257-9420), the Proposal Development Office (257-2861), the Office of Research Integrity–IRB & IACUC– (257-9428), and the Survey Research Center (257-4684) will be closed Wednesday, December 25 through Wednesday, January 1 and will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2014. If you anticipate a need for services provided by any of these offices during this time, please call the appropriate office(s) as soon as possible so that assistance may be provided before the break.

The UK COM R01 Consultant Review Program is a process that allows COM faculty members to gain feedback from an authoritative external consultant on a complete but not yet submitted R01 or equivalent application. To read more about the program, click here.