Skip to main
University-wide Navigation

UK Research News

From left: Grant Fischer, Julianne Sharpe and Austin Trotter

UK team selected for national research advocacy program

Oct 17, 2025, 7:25 AM

A UK team has been selected for the 2025-26 Scholars Transforming Through Research Program of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The five-month program culminates in a two-day event in Washington, D.C.

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging building

UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging celebrates 40 years as an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center

Oct 16, 2025, 7:20 AM

UK leadership, along with state and community leaders, joined members of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to celebrate 40 years of continuous funding from the NIH for their revolutionary work in the field of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

M. Paul Murphy, Ph.D.

Prestigious NIA grant to launch new Sanders-Brown training initiative

Oct 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

A new five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will launch the Kentucky Postbaccalaureate Alzheimer's Disease Research Education Program.

The cover of JNeurosci, depicting a two-photon image displaying interactions between astrocytes and cerebral blood vessels in the barrel cortex of an awake mouse.

UK researchers uncover key brain cell communication breakdown in Alzheimer’s disease

Oct 9, 2025, 6:57 AM

A team of researchers at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging now have a better understanding of how the brain’s support cells communicate with blood vessels — a process that goes awry in Alzheimer’s disease.

illustrated brain

15th annual Marksbery Symposium on Aging to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 1

Sep 24, 2025, 6:51 AM

The 15th annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia, an educational event for both the scientific community and the public, will take place Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2025.

Carla Blanton, Pete Nelson, Linda Van Eldik, Ilhem Messaoudi and Chipper Griffith cut the ribbon on the renovated Sanders-Brown research facility.

UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging celebrates reopening of renovated research facilities

Jul 23, 2025, 8:44 AM

A $28 million renovation project modernized three floors of research space within the building that houses the Sanders-Brown Center of Aging.

M. Paul Murphy, Ph.D., in his lab

M. Paul Murphy: 2025-26 University Research Professor Q&A

Jul 22, 2025, 6:54 AM

M. Paul Murphy, professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry in the UK College of Medicine, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.

Ryan Shahidehpour playing lacrosse for UK and in the lab

Former boxer, lacrosse player’s experiences fuel curiosity for brain research at Sanders-Brown

Jul 9, 2025, 10:41 AM

Ryan Shahidehpour was a boxer and lacrosse player at UK. Now he's a postdoctoral researcher at UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.

Tie “Thomas” Luo, Ph.D.

Luo wins Best Paper Award for research on Explainable AI in Alzheimer's disease

Jul 9, 2025, 5:29 AM

Tie “Thomas” Luo, has received the Best Paper Award at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2025 Workshop on Pattern Mining and Machine Learning for Bioinformatics for his work titled “Unlocking Neural Transparency: Jacobian Maps for Explainable AI in Alzheimer’s Detection.”

Research nurse Heather Heath with Jenn and Tyrome Highfield inside the Precision Medicine Clinic at Markey Cancer Center.

Clinical trials make discovery happen at UK

May 20, 2025, 7:20 AM

At the University of Kentucky, clinical trials are essential to providing the most advanced care to our patients and communities.

Filter News

University of Kentucky Homepage A link to return to the University of Kentucky Homepage
An Equal Opportunity University
Accreditation
Directory
Email
Privacy Policy
Accessibility
Disclosures
© University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506