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Nika Larian, a PhD student in Lisa Cassis's lab at the UK Superfund Research Center, is studying the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, or AHR, a transcription factor with roles in drug metabolism and detoxification. She explains that if you knock out AHR in the fat tissue of mice, you can prevent the development of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-induced diabetes. PCBs are toxins that are present in the environment and have been linked to type 2 diabetes.

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Below is a list of upcoming workshops provided by the Proposal Development Office:

October 25, 2016

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When Lisa Cassis isn’t in her cardiovascular research lab, you’ll find her leading the research enterprise at the University of Kentucky. 

How does the UK researcher balance her time in the lab and in the office? What motivates her each morning? 

Watch the video below to find out what keeps Cassis motivated and why a special talent is her favorite way to relax after a long day of work.

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including NIH, operates under the "Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act" (Public Law 114-223) signed by President Obama on September 29, 2016. This Act (CR) continues government operations through December 9, 2016 at 99.504 percent of the FY 2016 enacted level.

Reimbursement of Travel Expenses, E-5-1 has been updated and attached for your review. The policy primarily was updated to address TRIP functionality and clarify areas certain compliance concerns.  

Please forward any comments/questions to Patty Brophy by 10/21/16. Another notification will be sent when policy published to the web.  

Fall 2016 Graduate RA tuition expenses from the Graduate School will be posting at the end of October.  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:

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Multidisciplinary researchers unified by a mission to develop therapies, interventions and evidence-based solutions to substance use disorders delivered snapshots of their work to National Institute on Drug Abuse director Dr. Nora Volkow on Oct. 7. The series of presentations and roundtable discussion concluded Volkow’s two-day tour of Kentucky.

Registration is now open for the Ashland Inc. Distinguished Lectures & Symposium on Drug Discovery & Development to be held on Friday, November 4 in the W. T. Young Library. 

Please register here: www.ukalumni.net/pharmsymp2016

Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) affects one in four Americans overall and about three in four Americans age 65 and older. While health care aims to relieve suffering and alleviate burden, it sometimes makes burdensome demands of patients. Patients must invest capacity — time, emotion, and attention — to do the work of being a patient, which competes with other important tasks in their lives.

Because Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, many people use the two terms interchangeably. But inadequate blood flow to the brain due to microinfarcts, mini-strokes, or strokes is a hallmark of a disease called Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID).

The NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases, in collaboration with the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) announce the availability of limited funds to support pilot projects focused on research examining obesity-associated diseases (cardiovascular, diabetes, others). These pilot grants are intended to assist investigators new to this area of research to generate sufficient data to be competitive for extramural funding. 

Six teams of researchers and physician scientists have become the inaugural recipients of pilot funding from the new Multidisciplinary Value Program (MVP), which aims to boost team science that will impact University of Kentucky patients and wellbeing in the Commonwealth. Each MVP team will launch a new clinical trial that brings cutting-edge science to patients and communities.

The University of Kentucky announces the implementation of TRIP Travel Document Solution.

TRIP is an online software program designed to streamline the creation, submission, approval and payment of travel requests and travel expense reports in SAP. TRIP will be available to UK employees on Monday, Oct. 10.

TRIP is accessible through the Employee Self Service portal (ESS) on myUK.

More than 200 scientists and clinical investigators gathered last week to share insights and learn more about translational and clinical neuroscience research underway at the University of Kentucky. The 2016 Clinical-Translational Neuroscience Research Symposium, hosted by the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, featured nearly 100 poster and oral presentations focused on the latest scientific advances in a wide variety of topics related to the neurosciences being conducted by UK research groups. According to Dr. Larry B.

When most people think of the "fight against cancer," mental images of doctors counseling patients or white-coated researchers looking through a microscope often come to mind. However, clinicians and researchers across the country wouldn't be able to make major strides forward in cancer care without the critical information provided by cancer registries. In the Commonwealth, the Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR) has been dedicated to providing medical personnel with valuable cancer data for 30 years.

I’m pleased to announce starting this week, the College of Medicine will hold weekly administrators meetings with rotating topics, such as: accounting, finance, HR/payroll, research administration, and reporting.  We will communicate the agenda for the weekly meeting in advance, when possible.  While this meeting is geared toward Business Administrators, depending on the subject matter others may wish to attend.  Please check with your supervisor in advance regarding attendance to ensure coverage

University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) is hosting its sixth annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia on Nov. 4-5. This two-day program will offer sessions for both the scientific and community audiences. Clinicians and researchers from UK and other institutions will come together to share current findings, trends and the latest updates on dementia and aging disorders, particularly as related to Alzheimer’s disease. The Markesbery Symposium is in honor of the late Dr. William R.

REMINDER:  For any chair/director and department/center administrator that received an email from Susan Stark on August 9 regarding RA Tuition for the Fall 2016 semester, or if you have hired a Graduate Student Research Assistant to work in your lab since that date and they’re being paid from grant funds, please be sure to contact your