Seed Grants
Seed Grants Build Relationships for Community-Engaged Research in Appalachia
By Mallory Powell
Dec 04, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 5, 2013) – David Gross watched his mother care for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. He also saw the toll the disease took, not just on his grandmother, but on his mother who served as her caregiver. This inspired him to initiate a project in Morehead to support an assessment of Alzheimer Disease caregivers in rural Kentucky.
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UK Health Careers Enrichment Camp Receives Award
Evers Elected President of the Southern Surgical Association
Dr. Mark Evers, director of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, professor and vice-chair for research in the Department of Surgery and Markey Cancer Foundation Endowed Chair, has been elected the new president of the Southern Surgical Association.
One of the nation’s leading medical groups, the association is dedicated to furthering the study and practice of surgery, especially in the Southern states.
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UK Health Careers Enrichment Camp Receives Award from Appalachian Innovation Collaborative
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.
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UK acoUstiKats Sing Their Way into National Spotlight
NIH Announces Changes to its Continuous Submission Policy
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
Wright Brings New Expertise to Gill Heart Institute's Atrial Fibrillation Program
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.
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UK Chandler Hospital Recognized for Organ Donation Outreach
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.
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Rabchevsky Lab
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.
Jagger Named 2014 SEC Team Physician of the Year
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.
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