The Summer Training in Environmental Health and Pharmacological Sciences (STEPS) program provides hands-on research experience, career coaching and mentorship to undergraduate students aspiring to become health care providers and scientists.
As the COVID delta variant continues to spread across the United States, questions remain around both vaccine effectiveness and vaccination rates, and what these numbers could mean moving into the fall.
"Afraid of the Doctor: Every Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Managing Medical Trauma." addresses medical trauma, how to understand it and tips for parents of ill or injured children on how to overcome it.
A recently published study from University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging researcher Justin Miller, Ph.D., found 11 rare genetic variants spanning 10 genes, including previously unknown variants in two known Alzheimer's disease risk genes.
The Human Development Institute (HDI) will be leading an effort to improve capacity of health care to serve children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families throughout Kentucky.
The Research Priority Area supports a "collaborative matrix," bringing together diverse groups of investigators, trainees and research groups from nine different colleges across the university campus.
A five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will support a study on how local policies impact groups – including communities of color, low-income populations and youth – that are more likely to use flavored tobacco products.
UK Neuroscience Professor Greg Gerhardt's new research program will provide answers to questions about the role of neurotransmitters in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
