Darlingtina K. Esiaka has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to work with the Research Center for Ageing Cognition and Psychological Health in Nigeria.
Dr. Andrew Stewart is investigating why treatments that could help repair and regenerate the damaged spinal cord stop working shortly after the injury has occurred.
Blending a passion for research with creativity, University of Kentucky College of Medicine student Joshua Moses recently won a national video award highlighting the blood-brain barrier.
Researchers at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are at the forefront of advancing dementia research with groundbreaking work on a condition known as LATE.
Researchers at UK have found that incorporating specific nutrients into a regular diet may reduce iron buildup in the brain — a factor associated with cognitive decline in normal aging.
Linda Van Eldik recently received a three-year, $300,000 award from the BrightFocus Foundation to support her research project on how specific brain cells may contribute to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
