Research Advancing Kentucky: Preserving the golden years
Researchers at the University of Kentucky play an important role in advancing the health, well-being and future of our Commonwealth.
Much of that work is done with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). That support allows our researchers to find answers to many of the critical health issues facing Kentuckians.
Greg Jicha, M.D., Ph.D., is supported by the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, which leads research on aging, the aging process and diseases and conditions associated with growing older, in order to extend the healthy, active years of life.
Jicha is the associate director of the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and the Robert T. and the Nyle Y. McCowan Chair in Alzheimer’s Chair at the center. He’s also a professor of neurology with a joint appointment in neuroscience in the College of Medicine.
A prominent dementia expert, Jicha’s research focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. His work spans clinical trials, biomarker development and innovative approaches for early detection and treatment.
“The advances we have made over the last 25 years here at UK have led to the first medicines that can actually slow Alzheimer’s progression for the 80,000 with this disease throughout the Commonwealth,” said Jicha. “These advances are critically dependent on NIH funding that provides the infrastructure and support that allows such advances to become reality.”
Jicha and other members of the research community shared the importance of NIH-funded research at UK in this video series from Research Communications.
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