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Markey Joins Personalized Medicine Consortium to Speed Advances in Patient Care

Nov 2, 2017, 9:11 AM

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has joined the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network® (ORIEN), a personalized medicine consortium that allows its members to exchange data and push forward evidence-based cancer care to patients.

'Faith Moves Mountains' Initiative Continues with $3.1 Million Grant to Study Diabetes Care in Appalachia

Nov 1, 2017, 9:26 AM

This fall, Nancy Schoenberg and her team of community and university researchers in the UK College of Medicine and the UK College of Public Health were awarded a new five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to continue the Faith Moves Mountains initiative.

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Predicting How Healthy Your Heart Will be Years Down the Road

Oct 17, 2017, 9:18 AM

Testing and targeting treatment on a patient's virtual heart could lead to longer and healthier lives, especially for the 5.7 million adults with heart failure. Two UK researchers are working to make this a reality.

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Markey's Blackburn Earns NIH New Innovator Award for Cancer Research

Oct 6, 2017, 9:10 AM

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Researcher Jessica Blackburn has earned a prestigious National Institutes of Health's New Innovator Award, a grant totaling $1.5 million over five years to fund pediatric cancer research.

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Sanders-Brown Awarded Grant to Study Alzheimer's Prevention Drug

Oct 6, 2017, 9:02 AM

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five year, $2.88 million grant to a researcher at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to study a drug's potential to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

UK Researchers Seek to Identify Ways to Relieve Post-Chemotherapy Cognitive Impairment

Sep 29, 2017, 8:21 AM

Many cancer survivors experience devastating cognitive impairment following chemotherapy. Researchers at UK are trying to identify strategies to relieve these symptoms.

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UK-Authored Study Confirms Pelvic Radiation as Standard of Care for High-Risk, Early Stage Endometrial Cancer

Sep 28, 2017, 8:53 AM

In a new phase III trial report, recurrence and survival rates for women with stage I-II high-risk endometrial cancer were not superior following vaginal cuff brachytherapy & chemotherapy when compared with pelvic radiation therapy.

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UK Hosting Symposium Focused on Promoting STEM Careers, Science Communication This Weekend

Sep 28, 2017, 8:50 AM

To help develop skills to communicate scientific work to a broad audience, and design & implement a STEM career path, UK is hosting a symposium this weekend for students and professionals interested in these fields.

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UK's Igniting Research Collaborations Program Yields Return On Investment for Team Science

Sep 14, 2017, 9:20 AM

UK's Igniting Research Collaborations (IRC) grant program has awarded nearly $300,000 in pilot grants to support interdisciplinary research.

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Federal, Foundation Grants Support Summer Undergraduate Research at UK

Sep 14, 2017, 8:42 AM

This summer, 17 undergraduate students came to UK to participate in and learn about biomedical-related research through the SURES and SURF programs.

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