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UK researchers use gene ‘switch’ to reverse Alzheimer’s risk

Nov 17, 2025, 7:12 AM

UK researchers have developed a new experimental model that could point the way toward more effective Alzheimer’s disease treatments by targeting one of the brain’s most important genes for risk and resilience.

Jay Avasarala

UK neurologist aims to stop a preventable cause of blindness

Nov 7, 2025, 7:24 AM

Jay Avasarala’s latest study reveals a critical blind spot in how emergency departments across the globe diagnose a condition known as giant cell arteritis (GCA), which is blood vessel inflammation that can suddenly block blood flow to the eye, causing blindness.

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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.

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.

Poster session in the atrium of HKRB during the 2024 Neuroscience Symposium

Register for the 10th annual Neuroscience Symposium

Oct 6, 2025, 7:45 AM

The Neuroscience Research Priority Area’s 10th annual Neuroscience Clinical-Translational Research Symposium will be Nov. 6-7 in the Healthy Kentucky Research Building.

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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.

John Gensel and Lyric Johnson sitting at a table

‘Research Made Possible’: John Gensel and Lyric Johnson on neurotrauma research

Sep 22, 2025, 7:09 AM

In this “Research Made Possible” podcast, Dr. John Gensel discusses the All Access Research Training Scholars (AARTS) program at UK.

Behind the Blue

‘Behind the Blue’: Larry Goldstein on 60 years of neurology at UK

Aug 18, 2025, 7:11 AM

On this episode of Behind the Blue, Dr. Larry Goldstein talks about the UK College of Medicine Department of Neurology's origins and its evolution into a leader in patient care, education, and research.

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.

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.

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