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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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CHS Professor Receives $3.8M Office of Naval Research Award to Advance Warfighter Performance Monitoring

Dec 9, 2025, 10:03 AM

A College of Health Sciences professor at UK has been awarded a $3.8 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to lead a groundbreaking project aimed at enhancing performance monitoring and injury prevention in military aviation personnel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poster session in the atrium of HKRB during the 2024 Neuroscience Symposium

Register for the 10th annual Neuroscience Symposium

Oct 6, 2025, 7:45 AM

The Neuroscience Research Priority Area’s 10th annual Neuroscience Clinical-Translational Research Symposium will be Nov. 6-7 in the Healthy Kentucky Research Building.

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‘Research Made Possible’: John Gensel and Lyric Johnson on neurotrauma research

Sep 22, 2025, 7:09 AM

In this “Research Made Possible” podcast, Dr. John Gensel discusses the All Access Research Training Scholars (AARTS) program at UK.

‘Behind the Blue’: Larry Goldstein on 60 years of neurology at UK

Aug 18, 2025, 7:11 AM

On this episode of Behind the Blue, Dr. Larry Goldstein talks about the UK College of Medicine Department of Neurology's origins and its evolution into a leader in patient care, education, and research.

Q&A with Caroline Geisler: Exploring new path to weight loss — minus side effects

Aug 11, 2025, 7:11 AM

In a recent study, Caroline Geisler and team explored whether a signaling system in the brain could be targeted to achieve weight loss and blood sugar control without triggering unpleasant symptoms.

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