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Researchers Publish Study Looking at Approaches to Better Treat Alzheimer's Disease

Jul 29, 2020, 8:34 AM

For the past several decades, much of the work to find a treatment for AD has been focused on eliminating those dreaded Aβ plaques, by assuming that memory could be restored by removing the plaques.

Outreach Shows Progress, Promise in Fighting Oral Cancer Despite COVID-19

Jul 29, 2020, 8:26 AM

Kentucky has one of the nation's highest incidences of oral cancer, according to the National Institutes of Health, and the prevalence of oral cancer in the targeted counties is as much as 54% higher than the state average.

UK Part of Nationally Unique Partnership to Commercialize Tech Innovations

Jul 27, 2020, 2:46 PM

“We all want to grow Kentucky’s tech sector and create the high-paying, knowledge-based jobs that follow. A big part of doing so is turning Kentucky’s own academic research and development capabilities into commercially viable products and startups.”

UK Projects Receive NIH KYNETIC Product Development Awards

Jul 27, 2020, 2:32 PM

KYNETIC, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is excited to announce that five of the seven projects recently awarded $50,000 to bring their innovations toward product development are from the University of Kentucky.

2020 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award Winners Announced

Jul 27, 2020, 2:25 PM

This student-nominated award recognizes UK faculty members who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to mentoring undergraduate researchers, providing exceptional undergraduate research experiences, as well as supporting and promoting the undergraduate research initiatives on campus.

UK Appalachian Center Awards 12 Student Researchers

Jul 27, 2020, 2:07 PM

“The Appalachian Center is thrilled to support these student researchers that represent nine departments across four colleges. We look forward to learning from their work as they continue to produce cutting-edge research in and on the region.”

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.

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