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The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES) is a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Core Center to enhance research capacity focused on major environmental health impacts to air and water quality that have been implicated in environmentally induced disease.

The Center will provide advanced infrastructure and leading expertise, dedicated career development and mentorship, and community-engaged interactions to facilitate innovative discovery and new understandings of environmental factors in disease initiation, progression, and outcomes and their community impacts.


UK-CARES Cetewayo Rashid with UK Graduate student Krystal Sewell and Postdoc Kelly Oriakhi

UK-CARES Attends the 64th Annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting & ToxExpo

UK-CARES was well represented at the 64th Annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting & ToxExpo in Orlando, Florida this March. UK-CARES Deputy Director, Hollie Swanson, along with Cetaway Rashid and Pat Hannon.  The event linked students, professors, mentees, mentors, colleagues, industry leaders, and representatives from pharmaceutical and business sectors across the globe, with the shared commitment of advancing toxicological sciences.

Congratulations to UK grad students who presented their research...

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Pilot Funding: UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK‐CARES) | Letters of intent due Feb. 10

The mission of UK‐CARES is to discover and translate research on how the environment affects the health of people in rural Appalachia. Pilot Project Program supports innovative and high-impact environmental health sciences research, early‐stage investigators and those new to environmental health sciences, and fosters collaboration between environmental health scientists and community partners to address emerging environmental health issues, particularly in Appalachian communities. Letters of intent due Feb. 10. 

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