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PDO Funding Alert - NIH- NINDS Postdoctoral Mentored Career Development Award (K01 – Clinical Trial Required)
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS <http://www.ninds.nih.gov/> )
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Promoting new cross-college research collaborations
Faculty from all UK colleges are eligible to apply for IRC pilot funding.
For Carrigan Wasilchenko – and so many others hailing from Eastern Kentucky – cancer is not just a public health issue. It's also a problem that hits far too close to home.
"I don't think I know one person who doesn't know someone who's been affected by cancer in some way," said Wasilchenko, whose mother and grandmother both had cancer. "It's very personal."
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Data from a new study led by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that repurposing drugs used to treat leukemia has promise for preventing melanoma metastasis.
From childhood excellence in art and math, Sally Ellingson has built a robust career in computational drug discovery.
University Research Professorships were established by the UK Board of Trustees in 1976 to recognize outstanding research achievements. The College of Medicine is allocated two nominations for review by the Vice President for Research. The President makes the final selection and submits the names to the Board of Trustees for approval. It is anticipated that two to five Research Professorships will be awarded each year.
January 24, 2018
MEMORANDUM
TO: University of Kentucky Faculty and Postdocs
FROM: Peter Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., Elizabeth Head, Ph.D.
RE: CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Pilot Grant Funding for Studies on Alzheimer's Disease
In a society that values gender equality, it's important to remember that there are differences between the sexes that directly impact health.
One area in critical need of further study is cardiovascular health. For the past four years, two junior faculty at the University of Kentucky have invested their efforts to host a symposium where outstanding scientists from UK and universities across the country present new scientific advances in women's heart health and explore translational cardiovascular research areas that merit further study.
Spring 2018 Graduate RA tuition expenses from the Graduate School will be posting at the end of March. Please make sure cost objects have been provided for each student to be charged according to the Graduate School deadlines.
In order to charge RA tuition to a sponsored project all of the following criteria must be met:
1. The individual must be coded in payroll as a graduate research assistant; and
The Markey Cancer Foundation invites you to take an active role in furthering life-changing cancer research at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center through the Markey Women Strong program.
Markey Cancer Center Research Day is a single-day event showcasing current cancer research projects throughout all disciplines at the University of Kentucky. For the ninth consecutive year, the event is being held at the UK Singletary Center for the Arts.
On May 9, 2018, UK researchers – students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty and staff – have the opportunity to share their work in an atmosphere of learning and collaboration through several avenues such as:
The University of Kentucky Alzheimer’s Disease Center in conjunction with the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) is soliciting pilot grant applications focused on dynamic basic and clinical science studies of aging, AD, and related dementias. Each of the awards is intended to provide seed funding that will facilitate the initial testing of novel hypotheses that will lead to national-level funding of an expanded research plan based on the pilot work. Please see attached document for details.
One undergraduate psychology course changed William Stoops' life.
Originally Stoops planned to major in French, but after taking more psychology classes and getting involved in intensive, hands-on research, he decided in his senior year to devote his professional life to the study of the behavioral effects of drugs.
The Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship(VACE), part of the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, announced that one of its Fall 2017 Bootcamp teams, OptiMol Enzymes, has been accepted into the Clean Energy Trust Competition in Chicago, on F
According to a paper recently published in Cell Reports, labs from Case Western Reserve and the University of Kentucky's Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) were able to demonstrate the existence of a parallel neural network that could potentially restore diaphragm function after spinal cord injury.
This ghost network operates entirely separate from the brain, which has long been considered the only organ capable of directing respiratory function, and appears able to instruct the diaphragm to contract when properly activated.
The American Heart Association has awarded a University of Kentucky and Baylor University research partnership $3.7 million to study aortic disease.
UK and Baylor were one of four teams nationwide to receive the honor, which coincides with the establishment of the American Heart Association's Vascular Research Disease Network.
Abstracts and mentor nominations are now being accepted for the 13th Annual Spring Conference of the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Abstracts are due Monday, March 5, and mentor nominations are due Monday, Feb. 26.
The conference will be held Friday, April 13, 2018, at the Lexington Convention Center. The theme is “Opioids: Addressing the Public Health Crisis through Translational Science.” More details are available here.
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