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The UK BNRC will host its first symposium later this month, promoting biotechnology and bioelectronics innovation at UK.

UK research team “ARENEX” focuses on the potential of CRISPR-based gene editing technology and won the Phase 1 competition of the NIH Targeted Genome Editor Delivery Challenge.

UK’s Igniting Research Collaborations (IRC) program has awarded nearly $600,000 in pilot grants to support cross-college interdisciplinary research.

Guoqiang Yu, a professor in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky is working to better understand the impact of opioid use disorder on mothers and babies.

Collaborative research by former UK College of Pharmacy Professor Hsin-Hsiung Tai, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University and University of Texas Southwestern has been acquired by Amgen Inc.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has funded a University of Kentucky open source software project aimed at advancing scientific and biomedical research. Derek Young will use the grant to significantly modernize and enhance his two R packages, titled “mixtools” and “tolerance.”

Dr. Emma Birks, UK HealthCare's heart failure section chief, is working on a new treatment therapy that recovers the hearts of some patients with advanced-stage chronic heart failure and ultimately cut down the number of heart transplants needed.

The challenge, Moseley says, is in analyzing this complex data to derive new biological knowledge and in making this data and knowledge available in a highly reusable format in public scientific repositories.

"Our outstanding researchers at the University of Kentucky are leading the way in translational chemical biology, and the recently awarded COBRE grant is a testament to UK CPRI’s success in their constant pursuit of discovery," said UK President Eli Capilouto.