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Markey Awarded NCI Funding to Improve Tobacco Cessation Treatment

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is one of 22 cancer centers nationwide to receive funding to build and implement tobacco cessation treatment programs via the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (CCCI).

UK Study Shows Cell Signaling Interaction May Prevent Key Step in Lung Cancer Progression

New findings from University of Kentucky faculty published in Scientific Reports reveals a novel cell signaling interaction that may prevent a key step in lung cancer progression.

Pharmacy Dean Kip Guy on Addressing Health Disparities & Neglected Diseases

Kip Guy shares his research on neglected diseases, his goals as dean of the College of Pharmacy, and how pharmacy researchers are addressing the opioid epidemic.

Markey Joins Personalized Medicine Consortium to Speed Advances in Patient Care

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has joined the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network® (ORIEN), a personalized medicine consortium that allows its members to exchange data and push forward evidence-based cancer care to patients.

Markey's Blackburn Earns NIH New Innovator Award for Cancer Research

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Researcher Jessica Blackburn has earned a prestigious National Institutes of Health's New Innovator Award, a grant totaling $1.5 million over five years to fund pediatric cancer research.

KEHA Marks 40 Years of Support for UK Ovarian Cancer Research

What the Kentucky Extension Homemakers began four decades ago continues to make a profound difference in the lives of women across the Commonwealth.

UK Researchers Seek to Identify Ways to Relieve Post-Chemotherapy Cognitive Impairment

Many cancer survivors experience devastating cognitive impairment following chemotherapy. Researchers at UK are trying to identify strategies to relieve these symptoms.

UK-Authored Study Confirms Pelvic Radiation as Standard of Care for High-Risk, Early Stage Endometrial Cancer

In a new phase III trial report, recurrence and survival rates for women with stage I-II high-risk endometrial cancer were not superior following vaginal cuff brachytherapy & chemotherapy when compared with pelvic radiation therapy.

Kip Guy on Expecting the Unexpected

Kip Guy, Pharmacy Dean, is discovering and developing new drugs for neglected diseases.

New Study Discovers "Killer Peptide" That Helps Eliminate Resistant Cancer Cells

A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that when therapy-sensitive cancer cells die, they release a "killer peptide" that can eliminate therapy-resistant cells.

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