Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice chair in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and professor of physiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, will receive the 2013 Mark Brothers Award from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. and Mrs. Guey C. Mark created the endowed Mark Brothers Lectureship to recognize nationally and internationally renowned medical scientists of Asian descent. The Mark Brothers Lectureship was established in 1997 in honor of Dr.
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center was joined by national, state and local leaders today to celebrate its designation as a National Cancer Institute cancer center. The UK Markey Cancer Center is the 68th medical center in the country to receive this prestigious designation, and is the only NCI-designated cancer center in the state of Kentucky.
"Kentucky’s extraordinarily high cancer rates cause untold suffering within our families," said Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear.
University of Kentucky President Dr. Eli Capilouto will join Gov. Steve Beshear, U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo, UK Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Michael Karpf and UK Markey Cancer Center Director Dr. Mark Evers for an important announcement at 10 a.m. in the UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion A atrium.
All faculty, staff, students and the public are invited to attend the announcement and may also watch the news conference via live stream at http://uknow.uky.edu.
Bradley Gelfand, assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has been awarded a research grant from the American Heart Association to study atherosclerosis.
The grant will be used to determine whether the same novel findings previously discovered in human age-related macular degeneration also apply to human atherosclerosis. In particular, which levels and activity of the enzyme Dicer are altered in the vessel wall during atherosclerotic lesion formation.
Through early support of promising investigators in fields ranging from lung cancer to Alzheimer's disease to pediatric heart disease, the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has seen great return on their investment in recent years in the area of biomedical imaging at UK. The growth through investment ratio in this area has been great, with the return in federally-funded grants greatly multiplying the initial investment by the CCTS in the investigators' work.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, led by faculty member Donna Wilcock, have recently published a new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience detailing an advance in treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Gammagard™ IVIg is a therapy that has been investigated for treatment of Alzheimer's.
Dr. James DuBois, St. Louis University, was awarded a contract from the ORI RCR Resource Development Program to create an RCR casebook with case studies and role playing activities. ORI will be releasing the finished casebook shortly via the ORI website. To read an example case study, click here.
The Facilities and Administrative Cost rate utilized for industry funded clinical trial agreements is the off-campus research rate negotiated with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The federal government caps that rate for universities at 26%. An agreement has been issued to the University of Kentucky by DHHS with new rates that will be effective July 1, 2013. According to information submitted by the Office of Controller and Treasurer to DHHS to develop the new rates, the actual off-campus rate is 27.44%. The actual rate, ro
Sally Rockey, Deputy Director for Extramural Funding at NIH talks about percentile scoring of grant proposals on her blog. To read her comments on percentile scoring, click here.
Since Thursday, July the 4th is a Federal holiday, all NIH offices will be closed. Friday, July 5, 2013 is not a Federal holiday. NIH and its help desks will be open, and application deadlines of July 5th remain in place. If you have an application due on July 5, NIH recommends planning to submit early in the week to give yourself time to respond to errors and to view your application in the eRA Commons before the deadline.
NIH along with other government granting agencies is transitioning to updated electronic forms packages. The new packages are called FORMS-C and will be required for any submissions after September 25, 2013. NIH has provided detailed information regarding the changes to the forms. To read more, click here.
IMPORTANT REMINDER: The University’s policy, as instituted by the Vice President for Research in April 2012, mandates that eIAFs for sponsored research proposals be fully routed 3 business days prior to the sponsor’s proposal deadline. Anyone in an investigator role must provide their own certification. Chairs, Directors, and Deans can set up a delegate to provide the required certification if they won’t be available. Your CGO can provide assistance to make these arrangements, if needed.
As a reminder, the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) is currently required for all NIH grantees for SNAP and Fellowship awards. This would include most standard R series awards. SNAP and Fellowship progress reports submitted in another format will not be processed by the NIH and will require submission in the RPPR format. More information is available at these NIH links: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/rppr/ and http://era.nih.gov/services_for_applicants/reports_and_closeout/rppr.cfm. The RPPR should be routed to your CGO.
The University of Kentucky has been selected to host the 28th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) from April 3rd – 5th, 2014.
Part of the planned festivities will include an event called ‘Open Houses’, which is intended to showcase and promote research at UK. Open Houses will take place on Thursday April 3rd from 4-6pm. We would like to provide participating undergraduates with an opportunity to take part in a number of interactive demonstrations hosted by departments and academic units across campus.
The UK COM RO1 Consultant Review Program is a process that will facilitate a faculty member engaging an authoritative external consultant to provide an assessment of a complete, but not yet submitted, RO1 (or equivalent) application. Read more.
Does you lab door have proper signage? For a fillable template, please visit the EH&S website at http://ehs.uky.edu/docs/pdf/bio_s_lab_signage_0001.pdf.
From UK Biosafety News, Newsletter Date May 2013.
With the return of warmer weather and summer approaching, the UK Department of Biological Safety would like to issue the following friendly reminders:
Please remember to add new personnel, including summer interns and students, to your IBC registrations (http://topaz.uky.edu).
Please be advised that all high school volunteers must be approved by UK Environmental Health and Safety (http://ehs.uky.edu/ohs/minors_0001.php).
Minors under the age of 14 are NOT PERMITTED inside of any research laboratory, greenhouse, or animal facility at the Un
On May 8, 2013, NIH released its new Fiscal Policy for grant awards for its FY 2013. To information on the policy including changes from previous years, click here.
