Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

Radiologist Riham El Khouli, M.D, looking at brain scans on a screen

Seeing dementia clearly: UK collaboration uses advanced imaging to personalize care

Jan 6, 2026, 8:00 AM

Collaboration between the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Markey Cancer Center and the Department of Radiology is changing how Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are detected, understood and treated.

Bernardo Aguzzoli Heberle holding a basketball in a medical building

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.

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.

From left: Grant Fischer, Julianne Sharpe and Austin Trotter

UK team selected for national research advocacy program

Oct 17, 2025, 7:25 AM

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.

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp & the Biotech Revolution

Nobel winner’s journey from campus to cure: ‘Cracking the Code’ film coming to Kentucky Theatre

Oct 16, 2025, 7:46 AM

“Cracking the Code” chronicles the life of Nobel laureate Phil Sharp, from his humble beginnings on a Kentucky farm to his groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing at MIT.

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.

Prestigious NIA grant to launch new Sanders-Brown training initiative

Oct 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

A new five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging will launch the Kentucky Postbaccalaureate Alzheimer's Disease Research Education Program.

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.

15th annual Marksbery Symposium on Aging to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 1

Sep 24, 2025, 6:51 AM

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.

2025 Neuroscience Clinical-Translational Research Symposium

Nov 6, 2025, 11:00 AM – Nov 7, 2025, 4:30 PM

The 10th annual Neuroscience Clinical-Translational Research Symposium will take place Nov. 6-7, 2025. The symposium, hosted by the Neuroscience Research Priority Area (NRPA), will be held in the Healthy Kentucky Research Building.

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