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

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.

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

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.

Register for the 10th annual Neuroscience Symposium

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

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

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

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

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.

Former boxer, lacrosse player’s experiences fuel curiosity for brain research at Sanders-Brown

Ryan Shahidehpour was a boxer and lacrosse player at UK. Now he's a postdoctoral researcher at UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.

3 UK graduates receive Fulbright awards

Three UK graduates have received awards from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which expands perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue.

Research Advancing Kentucky: Protecting the brain

NIH funding drives innovation in brain health. It also supports Dr. Luke Bradley’s research on protecting and restoring brain cells in diseases like Parkinson’s, leading to promising treatments.

16 students awarded CURE Fellowships

The CURE Fellowship provides students with the opportunity to engage in impactful, faculty-mentored research within seven of UK’s eight Research Priority Areas

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