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In 2015, identical twins Gardner and Jon Wes Adams, then in their mid-20s, both nearly died when their hearts suddenly stopped beating. The incidents happened months apart, but the cause was the same: Brugada syndrome, a rare, congenital heart rhythm disorder.

The College of Medicine has announced its Wethington Award Policy for 2017.

The policy can be found on the COM Research webpage under Support.

Click here to read the full policy.

In accordance with NOT-OD-17-001, (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17- 001.html), NIH is currently operating under the Fiscal Year 2017 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (H.R. 5325). Therefore, NIH will issue non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award.

Sponsored Research Administrative Services recently presented a deck of slides with guidance related to booking travel for non-employees.  The document contains a wealth of information including g/l information.  To view the slides, click here. 

This information as well as other documents can be found on the SRAS Useful Information Page.  Click here to view the page. 

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ATTENTION INVESTIGATORS: FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR PILOT PROGRAM

The College of Medicine and Center for Health Services Research
(in collaboration with the VPR, CCTS and UK HealthCare)
Call for Applications – Pilot Grant Funding
Value of Innovation to Implementation Program (VI2P)

A multi-site clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research (CDAR) has demonstrated the effectiveness of CAM2038, a potentially transformative buprenorphine therapy for moderate-to-severe opioid use disorders.

Radiation therapy saves countless lives, but in rare cases, it can cause a debilitating, long-term complication when used on the brain. Around three to five percent of patients who receive radiation for brain tumors, or arteriovenous malformations (AVM), develop radiation necrosis, where the brain tissue around the targeted lesion becomes injured and dies. The condition can be disabling, causing severe headaches, nausea and vomiting, cognitive problems and neural dysfunction.

Budgets for commercial, industry-funded clinical trial projects should include a one-time fee of $3,000, listed as "IRB Review Fee". The recent increase in the one-time fee for initial IRB review was implemented as a result of increased administrative and procedural compliance requirements. The current rate remains in line with national standards.

The American College of Cardiology has named Gill Heart Institute's Dr. David J. Moliterno, the new editor-in-chief of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. Moliterno is the Jack M. Gill Chair and professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky. He is also a member of the interventional cardiology faculty at the UK Gill Heart Institute.

A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that chloroquine – a drug currently used to treat malaria – may be useful in treating patients with metastatic cancers. Published in Cell Reports, the study showed that chloroquine induced the secretion of the tumor suppressor protein Par-4 in both mouse models and in cancer patients in a clinical trial.

[from the VPR's Office]

For applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2017, text in PDF attachments must follow these minimum requirements:

Check out Newly Issued NIH Administrative Supplement Opportunities!

Although the continuing resolution for funding of the FY 2017 federal budget has been extended to spring, potentially delaying issuance of some awards or temporarily reducing current year budget amounts, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a number of opportunities for supplemental funding to an array of active awards across diverse grant mechanisms.  

Michele Staton-Tindall grew up in rural Appalachia during a time when people felt so safe they didn’t even lock their doors at night. The ensuing drug epidemic that now ravages her former home has dramatically impacted the lives of the Appalachian people and broken that sense of security.

Alan Daugherty, senior associate dean for research at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, was recently approved to renew his contract as editor-in-chief of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association (ATVB) for a second five-year term. ATVB is one of the five core journals of the American Heart Association. As editor of ATVB, Daugherty’s primary focus is on publishing the most important new research studies related to a spectrum of vascular diseases.

Yasir Al-Siraj, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, is the lead author of a paper published in Circulation, a leading journal on cardiovascular medicine. 

The article, “Female Mice with an XY Sex Chromosome Complement Develop Severe Angiotensin II-Induced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms,” was co-authored by UK colleagues Sean E. Thatcher, Richard Charnigo, Kuey Chen, Eric Blalock, Alan Daugherty and Lisa Cassis.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 14, 2016) —

"also.... just because

I am working out the flavor for the 

1812 Overture

I will most likely put it into a lolli 

this is an incredible challenge

as it is making me cry while I listen…"

Taria Camerino's poetic email sums up her passion for helping people explore how flavor perception is influenced by more than the tongue.  Her emotion is genuine: as a gastral synesthete, she experiences ALL senses as taste.

An updated, “version 2.0” of the Electronic Internal Approval Form (eIAF), developed by UK’s Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) and Enterprise Architecture Group (EAG), is in the final stages of testing.  The updated form will have many improvements, including enhanced validation checks and the ability to view attachments in the same window as the eIAF.