A national grant awarded to two professors will address cardiovascular disease risk factors in rural caregivers through an intervention promoting psychological health, CVD risk-reduction measures, and self-management.
For VP for Research Lisa Cassis, the drive to conduct meaningful research is personal. She chose to devote her career to cardiovascular research after watching her father battle heart disease.
Margaret Murphy is a postdoctoral scholar in Analia Loria’s lab in pharmacology and nutritional sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
