I am very pleased to announce a new cycle of funding opportunities for pilot projects in cancer research under an Institutional Research Grant to the University of Kentucky from the American Cancer Society.  This grant is awarded to the University "... to provide 'seed' money awards for the initiation of promising new projects [in cancer research] by junior faculty members (Assistant Professors or their equivalent, not currently funded), so they can obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national research grants." 

It’s now possible for those without SAP access, including PIs, to track the routing status of eIAFs.  Here is the announcement distributed in last week’s Grants Bulletin by the Office of Sponsored Project Administration.  

Investigator eIAF Tracking Report Instructions

Video By UK Public Relations & Marketing, Photos Courtesy of the American Medical Association (AMA).

Community leaders and local health care providers joined representatives of Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), Appalachian Heart Center (AHC), and UK HealthCare’s Gill Heart Institute Monday to celebrate a new partnership that will deliver the highest quality and state-of-the-art cardiovascular care to residents of Eastern Kentucky. 

In the medical world, the best public relations initiative is a satisfied patient. Word-of-mouth is the number one, most influential marketing medium across all demographics. When someone speaks positively about an experience or product, we pay attention.

Dr. J. Scott Roth, who specializes in laparoscopic hernia repair, has many satisfied patients, but there is one who stands out. Carmen Patti from Chicago, Illinois had three hernias repaired by Dr. Roth and he’s talking about it.

In their quest for perfecting the artificial lung, Department of Surgery Chairman Joseph B. Zwischenberger, MD and Director of the Artificial Organ Laboratory Dongfang Wang, MD, PhD have patented and received FDA approval of a new device which greatly improves the oxygenation of blood for patients who suffer from severe lung failure. The device, a two-channel catheter (in scientific terms, double lumen cannula or DLC) expands the potential application of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO.

In the winter of 2009, we reported that Surgery Department Chairman Joseph B. Zwischenberger, MD and Dongfang Wang, MD, PhD, director of the Artificial Organ Laboratory, were awarded a patent for the double lumen cannula. More recently [April 28, 2009], the team has been awarded another patent for a device and system that supports a failing heart.