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Sanitizer to Health Care Workers, Manufacturing Instructions to Spirits Industry

The James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits is making sanitizer and creating an instructional video for distillers who want to do the same. The multidisciplinary Beam Institute is naturally suited for projects of this nature, with experts in biotechnology, chemistry and engineering.

Fact vs. Fiction: COVID-19

Craig Martin is the course coordinator for the comprehensive infectious diseases course in the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum. He is busting myths and sharing truth about COVID-19 and its impact your community.

Registration Now Open for CCTS Conference on 'Our Environment, Our Health'

Join nearly 1,000 researchers, clinicians, students and community members for this free, day-long event exploring the relationship between the environment, our health and how we live.

Registration for Appalachian Studies Association Conference Now Open

Next month, the University of Kentucky will host, for the first time, the Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) conference on its campus.

Center Aims to Build a Culture of Health in Kentucky and Beyond

John Lyons' eye for innovation, beginning when he painted fire hydrants as a summer job, will serve him well as the director for innovation in public health.

UK Launches $15 Million KeY Treat Study in Perry County

UK officials provided updates on the Kentucky Viral Hepatitis Treatment Project (KeY Treat), a three-year, $15 million study co-funded by NCI and NIDA with the ultimate goal of eradicating the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Perry County, KY.

UK Fulbright Scholar Researches Anemia in Peruvian Children

Ana Maria Linares, associate professor in UK’s College of Nursing, traveled to Peru this past March 2019 to research the cause of iron-deficiency anemia in Peruvian children at the National University of San Luis Gonzaga.

Training Program Empowers Kentuckians to Take Control of Their Health

Jean Edward, and her colleagues, developed a training program for community health workers to help them educate others about health insurance.

UK Program Inspires New Research in Women’s Health

Funded by NIDA and the Office of Research on Women’s Health at NIH, BIRCWH gives UK scholars training, collaboration and mentoring opportunities that enable them to develop independent research programs in women’s health.

Research Facility Embodies Promise to be the University for Kentucky

UK Research had much to celebrate in 2019, growth in research awards—up 25% from FY18 to FY19—to the largest grant in UK’s history, the $87 million HEALing Communities Study from NIH that aims to reduce opioid overdose deaths by 40% in three years. 

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