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UK Part of Nationally Unique Partnership to Commercialize Tech Innovations

Jul 27, 2020, 2:46 PM

“We all want to grow Kentucky’s tech sector and create the high-paying, knowledge-based jobs that follow. A big part of doing so is turning Kentucky’s own academic research and development capabilities into commercially viable products and startups.”

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NIH-funded Network Led by XLerateHealth and UK Supports HBCU Commercialization

Jul 22, 2020, 8:05 AM

Supported by XLerateHealth, a health care startup accelerator in Louisville, Kentucky, and by UK, EnRICH is an outgrowth of NIH funding UK received in October 2018 — $3.5 million over three years — to create the XLerator Network.

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Artemisia Annua Could Be Promising Treatment for COVID-19

Jun 25, 2020, 8:07 AM

The new potential treatment has been added to the University of Kentucky’s innovative clinical trial for experimental COVID-19 therapies, which was launched by leaders from UK’s Markey Cancer Center, College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy in May.

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UK's Korotkov Partners With Atomwise to Screen for Potential Drugs Against Novel COVID-19 Target

Jun 22, 2020, 9:04 AM

UK announced a research collaboration with Atomwise, an industry leader in using artificial intelligence (AI) for small molecule discovery, to explore potential COVID-19 therapies.

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UK, ArtemiLife Partner to Test for Anti-Cancer Activity of Artemisia Annua Extracts

Jun 3, 2020, 8:28 AM

UK and ArtemiLife Inc. will collaborate on a clinical study using the extract of a medicinal plant grown in Kentucky to test for anti-cancer activity of Artemisia annua and to determine the recommended dose of Artemisia annua for future clinical trials.

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UK, Lexmark Form Technology Partnership

Apr 23, 2020, 8:39 AM

UK's Office of Technology Commercialization announces its first-ever license agreement with Lexmark International Inc. involving a project led by Joshua Werner exploring the recovery and recycling of precious metals. 

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Sanitizer to Health Care Workers, Manufacturing Instructions to Spirits Industry

Apr 1, 2020, 3:05 PM

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.

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Independent Stave Company and Boswell Family Give $1 Million for Spirits Maturation Warehouse at UK

Mar 2, 2020, 8:58 AM

The gift will fund a maturation facility that will allow the Beam Institute to experiment with barrel aging spirits produced in its research distillery.

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CAER Project Seeks to Create More Environmentally Friendly, Stronger Cement

Jan 21, 2020, 11:25 AM

Cement production is the world’s second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions. CAER received a two-year, $1.3 million grant to develop extremely durable belite-based cement that is low-energy consuming and low-carbon dioxide releasing.

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UK OTC, Partners Receive Phase II Funding for Southeast XLerator Network

Dec 19, 2019, 1:24 PM

In October 2018, it was announced that UK and regional partners had received a federal NIH grant that could potentially total $3.5 million over three years to create a hub to accelerate the commercialization of biomedical technologies.

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