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16 students awarded CURE Fellowships

The CURE Fellowship provides students with the opportunity to engage in impactful, faculty-mentored research within seven of UK’s eight Research Priority Areas

Research Advancing Kentucky: Predicting and preventing heart attacks, strokes

With NIH support, Vince Venditto identified a cardiovascular biomarker that helps predicts risk of heart attack or stroke. He seeks to harness the immune system for treatment and prevention.

Dive deep into preventative cardiology at the annual T.F. Whayne Cardiovascular Symposium

Join experts from the UK Gill Heart & Vascular Institute to learn about promoting healthy lifestyles and disease prevention.

Registration open: 10th annual Appalachian Research Day set to take place in Corbin

The annual event is an opportunity to learn about health research conducted with communities in Appalachia.

11th Healthy Hearts for Women Symposium to feature leading cardiovascular experts

The symposium is an effort to raise awareness and warn women about the dangers of heart disease.

Advancing Kentucky Together: Cardiovascular researcher Ken Campbell

Kenneth S. Campbell's work to collect and maintain a biorepository of heart samples helps advance cardiovascular research around the world.

UK scientists help unveil improved rat genome, advancing medical research

Rats have long been a staple in biomedical research because their biological and behavioral characteristics mirror human health.

‘UK at the Half’: Tackling food insecurity to improve health outcomes

Learn how UK’s Alison Gustafson is forming partnerships across campus and in communities throughout the Commonwealth to address issues around food insecurity and how those issues affect the health of Kentuckians.

People Behind Our Research: Alison Gustafson tackles food insecurity to improve health outcomes

UK’s Alison Gustafson leads a team of researchers, clinicians, community partners, health care partners and food commodity producers to address food insecurity and its impact on the health of Kentuckians.

Physiology Scholars Program welcomes new cohort focused on biomedical research

Scholars are selected based on their academic achievements and a statement of interest in research. Four students were selected as 2024-25 Physiology Scholars.

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