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Ka Wing Fong standing in his lab with other researchers

Markey study identifies pathway driving prostate cancer bone metastatic progression

Dec 19, 2025, 7:24 AM

A UK Markey Cancer Center study reveals how prostate cancer cells adapt their metabolism to thrive in bone tissue, offering a potential new treatment target for patients with advanced disease.

From left, Oregon Health and Science University’s Bita Moghaddam and Harvard Medical School’s John Kelly

Registration open for 8th annual Substance Use Research Event

Dec 16, 2025, 7:18 AM

The University of Kentucky’s eighth annual Substance Use Research Event (SURE) will be March 10, 2026.

A group of people stand under a large, inflatable model of lungs

UK researchers partner with Kentucky communities to reduce lung cancer stigma, promote screening

Dec 15, 2025, 7:25 AM

During National Lung Cancer Screening Awareness Month, UK researchers were traveling across the Commonwealth to talk to Kentuckians about lung health.

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.

Gretchen Ruschman in graduation regalia, holding a degree from Cambridge University

From University of Kentucky to United Kingdom: UK alum’s education prepared her for research at Cambridge

Dec 9, 2025, 7:51 AM

Gretchen Ruschman’s major and extracurricular activities gave her opportunities to pursue her research interests and do hands-on research as an undergrad at UK, which led to attending Cambridge University for her Master's degree.

‘UK at the Half’: Hope for hearing loss

Dec 8, 2025, 7:47 AM

In this “UK at the Half,” hear from Matthew Bush as he describes how decades of research and patient care are reshaping what is possible in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of hearing loss.

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CCTS Spring Conference

Dec 1, 2025, 11:32 AM

The UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science is accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations at its 2026 Spring Conference, which will be held on Tuesday, March 31.

Barbara Nikolajczyk in a lab with another researcher at the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center,

NIH awards $11 million for UK diabetes prevention research

Nov 24, 2025, 7:47 AM

University of Kentucky researchers were recently awarded a prestigious five-year, $11 million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant that will significantly bolster diabetes prevention research.

2025 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition winners group photo

2025 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition winners announced

Nov 19, 2025, 7:18 AM

The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) recently announced the 21 undergraduate winners of the 61st annual Oswald Research and Creativity Awards. Chad Risko, Ph.D., faculty director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and Research Ambassadors, presented the awards. Founded in 1964 by UK President John Oswald, the Oswald Research and Creativity Competition promotes undergraduate research and creative endeavors across all academic disciplines.

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.

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