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CURE Alliance Uniting COVID-19 Research Across UK

Jun 12, 2020, 8:29 AM

UK researchers across many disciplines are addressing COVID-19’s medical challenges and beyond — including developing new PPE materials, designing testing and diagnostic equipment, and examining the wider societal, economic and legal implications of the pandemic.

UK, SCC Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks

Jun 9, 2020, 8:16 AM

“The virus is about 120 nanometers in size — in the world of membranes, that's large. Even more so, it's not going to come as a virus by itself, flying in the air. It's going to come in the saliva, so it's going to be a much larger particle. A large particle is just not going through (this filter).”

UK HEALing Communities Strategy Fast-Tracked Due to COVID-19

May 14, 2020, 8:45 AM

The ambitious study is organized into six phases, beginning with the basic preparations and leading into actual implementation and monitoring of various evidence-based strategies to reduce opioid deaths.

UK Gets NSF Funding to Develop Face Mask that Can Deactivate COVID-19

May 14, 2020, 8:37 AM

For the RAPID project, the team will create a membrane mask and other flat sheet materials with a more porous and spongy structure that will include charged domain and enzymes, which would capture and effectively deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Grant Recipient Uses Personal Health Journey to Help Others Prevent Diabetes

May 14, 2020, 8:26 AM

Through the “Fall into Fitness” walking and diabetes education program that she leads, Castle has reached hundreds of her fellow community members, facilitating diabetes screening and education.

UK Research Team Has Work Highlighted in AAAS' Science Journal

May 13, 2020, 8:23 AM

A group of UK professors and scientists efforts to identify possible direct therapeutic approaches to treat COVID-19 was published in the Perspectives section of the most recent issue of Science, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

UK Researchers Will Lead Study of COVID-19 Immunity

May 11, 2020, 8:17 AM

UK researchers have launched antibody testing that will help to understand what immunity to COVID-19 really means. The research is part of UK’s CURE Alliance team, which is uniting UK researchers across disciplines in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

UK Launches Clinical Trial to Evaluate Novel Treatments for COVID-19

May 7, 2020, 8:21 AM

“We are pleased to be able to offer this clinical trial to patients with COVID-19 in Kentucky. While there is no standard treatment for COVID-19, this trial gives us the ability to test multiple therapies rapidly in order to identify the most promising agents.”

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Kentucky Conference on Health Communication Goes Virtual Amid Global Pandemic

May 5, 2020, 8:40 AM

The Kentucky Conference on Health Communication (KCHC), which was supposed to be held April 2-4, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, made the swift change to a virtual conference amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers Awarded $2.6 Million to Engage 'Citizen Scientists' to Reduce Radon Exposure in Rural Areas

May 4, 2020, 8:25 AM

It cannot be seen, smelled or tasted, and people are exposed by breathing radon in air when it comes in through gaps and cracks in their homes. It is the second-leading cause of lung cancer after tobacco smoking.

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