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.
A UK team has been selected for the 2025-26 Scholars Transforming Through Research Program of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The five-month program culminates in a two-day event in Washington, D.C.
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.
A new five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will launch the Kentucky Postbaccalaureate Alzheimer's Disease Research Education Program.
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.
The 15th annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia, an educational event for both the scientific community and the public, will take place Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2025.
M. Paul Murphy, professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry in the UK College of Medicine, has been honored as a 2025-26 University Research Professor.
