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UK study: ‘Person-centered care’ improves lives of dementia residents, caregivers

Feb 10, 2026, 7:51 AM

Researchers from the UK College of Fine Arts and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging investigated how complementary and supportive care programs affect life in four different Kentucky care facilities.

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‘Think big… then think bigger’: Researcher Greg Gerhardt on diving into the unknown

Jan 30, 2026, 7:42 AM

A world-class neuroscientist, educator, and explorer, Greg Gerhardt has built a career defined by innovation and pushing the boundaries of brain repair and Parkinson’s disease treatment through research.

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Call for proposals: Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience Fellowship

Jan 12, 2026, 7:57 AM

The UK Office of Undergraduate Research is accepting proposals for the 2026 Commonwealth Undergraduate Research Experience Fellowship.

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Seeing dementia clearly: UK collaboration uses advanced imaging to personalize care

Jan 6, 2026, 8:00 AM

Collaboration between the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Markey Cancer Center and the Department of Radiology is changing how Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are detected, understood and treated.

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Sanders-Brown graduate transforms personal loss into research impact

Dec 15, 2025, 7:11 AM

As he prepares to graduate from UK, Aguzzoli Herbele reflects on his graduate journey, his research and the relationships that defined his time at UK.

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UK researchers use gene ‘switch’ to reverse Alzheimer’s risk

Nov 17, 2025, 7:12 AM

UK researchers have developed a new experimental model that could point the way toward more effective Alzheimer’s disease treatments by targeting one of the brain’s most important genes for risk and resilience.

Jay Avasarala

UK neurologist aims to stop a preventable cause of blindness

Nov 7, 2025, 7:24 AM

Jay Avasarala’s latest study reveals a critical blind spot in how emergency departments across the globe diagnose a condition known as giant cell arteritis (GCA), which is blood vessel inflammation that can suddenly block blood flow to the eye, causing blindness.

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UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging celebrates 40 years as an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center

Oct 16, 2025, 7:20 AM

UK leadership, along with state and community leaders, joined members of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to celebrate 40 years of continuous funding from the NIH for their revolutionary work in the field of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

M. Paul Murphy, Ph.D.

Prestigious NIA grant to launch new Sanders-Brown training initiative

Oct 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

A new five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will launch the Kentucky Postbaccalaureate Alzheimer's Disease Research Education Program.

The cover of JNeurosci, depicting a two-photon image displaying interactions between astrocytes and cerebral blood vessels in the barrel cortex of an awake mouse.

UK researchers uncover key brain cell communication breakdown in Alzheimer’s disease

Oct 9, 2025, 6:57 AM

A team of researchers at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging now have a better understanding of how the brain’s support cells communicate with blood vessels — a process that goes awry in Alzheimer’s disease.

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