Scholars are selected based on their academic achievements and a statement of interest in research. Four students were selected as 2024-25 Physiology Scholars.
UK research team “ARENEX” focuses on the potential of CRISPR-based gene editing technology and won the Phase 1 competition of the NIH Targeted Genome Editor Delivery Challenge.
Collaborative research by former UK College of Pharmacy Professor Hsin-Hsiung Tai, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University and University of Texas Southwestern has been acquired by Amgen Inc.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has funded a University of Kentucky open source software project aimed at advancing scientific and biomedical research. Derek Young will use the grant to significantly modernize and enhance his two R packages, titled “mixtools” and “tolerance.”
Dr. Emma Birks, UK HealthCare's heart failure section chief, is working on a new treatment therapy that recovers the hearts of some patients with advanced-stage chronic heart failure and ultimately cut down the number of heart transplants needed.
The challenge, Moseley says, is in analyzing this complex data to derive new biological knowledge and in making this data and knowledge available in a highly reusable format in public scientific repositories.
