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For the past four years, two junior faculty at UK have organized a symposium where outstanding scientists from UK and beyond present new scientific advances in women's heart health and explore translational cardiovascular research areas that merit further study.

In a new $2.9 million NIDA-funded project, William Stoops will compare the health effects of reduced cocaine use with abstinence.

Scientists from four different institutions are working together to identify a biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease using mice that travel an 850-mile circuit to test the efficacy of special technology called Quest MRI.

Last summer, a group from the UK Brain Restoration center, led by Dr. Craig van Horne, capped off a series of conferences held at a number of renowned Chinese university hospitals by performing the first-ever deep brain stimulation surgery for a Parkinson’s disease patient at The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan, China.

UK's Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health program has not only supported faculty and researchers in their work, but also jump-started careers, aided in publications and helped forge partnerships and mentorships across disciplines.

In a prime example of the unique type of cross-collaboration that takes place at academic medical centers, Markey's stem cell lab is working together with the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute to bring an innovative stroke clinical trial to UK HealthCare.

This fall, Nancy Schoenberg and her team of community and university researchers in the UK College of Medicine and the UK College of Public Health were awarded a new five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to continue the Faith Moves Mountains initiative.

This project will collect, transcribe, edit and publish the complete writings of Dickinson, who wrote more for the American cause than any other founding father.

A pilot project spearheaded by UK College of Health Sciences researcher Carl Mattacola could be the first step towards developing a return-to-ride protocol for jockeys who suffer a concussion.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five year, $2.88 million grant to a researcher at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to study a drug's potential to prevent Alzheimer's disease.