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UK Students, Faculty Approach Summer Research Fellowships in Creative Ways to Continue Studies

Jul 24, 2020, 8:48 AM

Any full-time UK undergraduate student of any major who has completed at least one semester of research with a faculty mentor is eligible to apply for a Summer Research Fellowship.

Reading the Unreadable: Seales and Team Reveal Dead Sea Scroll Text

Jul 23, 2020, 8:30 AM

Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at UK, is considered the foremost expert in the digital restoration of damaged and unreadable manuscripts. To this day, his quest to uncover the wisdom of the ancients is ever evolving.

UK Virologist Shares What We Know About COVID-19

Jul 22, 2020, 8:14 AM

Dutch is leading the College of Medicine’s COVID-19 Unified Research Experts (CURE) Alliance team, which brings together faculty expertise from multiple disciplines across the university to focus on advising COVID-19 patient care and clinical trials based on emerging research.

NIH-funded Network Led by XLerateHealth and UK Supports HBCU Commercialization

Jul 22, 2020, 8:05 AM

Supported by XLerateHealth, a health care startup accelerator in Louisville, Kentucky, and by UK, EnRICH is an outgrowth of NIH funding UK received in October 2018 — $3.5 million over three years — to create the XLerator Network.

UK Receives $3.2 Million for Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Jul 21, 2020, 1:05 PM

The National Institutes of Health award will fund ongoing research led by UK Neuroscience and Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) Professor Patrick Sullivan, Ph.D., who has studied the effects of the experimental drug MP201 on TBI.

UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Facilitates First Participant in Worldwide Drug Study

Jul 17, 2020, 8:21 AM

This work is looking at a study medication, BAN2401, to determine if it can help prevent worsening memory and thinking among individuals who might be at risk for future decline. They are hoping it will ultimately help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

UK Human Research Protection Program Receives Full AAHRPP Reaccreditation

Jul 16, 2020, 8:27 AM

The five-year reaccreditation process involved an AAHRPP application consisting of some 1,700 pages, completed by ORI staff, describing the HRPP at UK and culminated with a two-day site visit.

UK Entomologists Find Invasive Paper Wasps Preying on Monarch Butterfly Larvae

Jul 16, 2020, 8:24 AM

“In our study, Polistes dominula was the most common wasp seen hunting caterpillars in Central Kentucky gardens. We think it may be a game-changer for urban monarch conservation."

OTC Announces Enhanced UKAccel Program in Partnership With Launch Blue

Jul 15, 2020, 8:31 AM

Under the enhanced UKAccel, the Launch Blue team will provide professional development and experiential learning to UK innovators who are interested in learning the best commercialization path for their technology.

UK Study Provides New Insight on Colorectal Cancer Growth

Jul 14, 2020, 8:40 AM

A group led by the Markey Cancer Center researcher Qing-Bai She discovered that SMS is overexpressed in colorectal cancers and plays an important role in balancing cellular spermidine levels that are a necessary adaptation for colorectal cancer growth.

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