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New Research Aims to Improve Health Among Rural Appalachians Through Personal Technology

Nov 9, 2020, 8:02 AM

The National Institutes of Health/National Heart Lung and Blood Institute recently awarded a five-year $3.8 million grant to the University of Kentucky to begin a new study aimed at improving diet and activity among rural Appalachian Kentuckians.

UK researchers launch a $2 million project to study sulfur variability in biofuel feedstocks

Nov 6, 2020, 8:26 AM

“We hope to better understand how sulfur accumulates in biofuel feedstocks, what happens to the sulfur during thermochemical conversion, how to remove sulfur and improve gasification efficiency.”

UK and Baptist Health Lexington, Norton Health Care Begin Recruiting Participants for Phase 3 COVID-19 Investigational Vaccine Clinical Trial

Nov 5, 2020, 11:09 AM

Janssen’s AdVac® technology was used to develop Janssen’s Ebola vaccine regimen and is the basis for its HIV, RSV and Zika vaccine candidates.

UK Researchers Collaborate on NSF Project to Reimagine the Internet on Global Scale

Nov 5, 2020, 11:04 AM

A new $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will expand FABRIC, a project to build the nation’s largest cyberinfrastructure testbed, to four distinguished scientific institutions in Asia and Europe.

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10th Annual Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Series Taking Place Virtually

Nov 4, 2020, 9:39 AM

This year’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Day will be a series of virtual seminars and activities during November. This also coincides with National Diabetes Month. The Series will include prominent speakers in the areas of diabetes and obesity research.

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The Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Receives $2.8 million in Renewed Funding

Oct 30, 2020, 9:32 AM

The RUHRC was established in 2016, with an initial HRSA funding award of $2.8 million. Since then, the Center has produced 22 research products, including policy briefs and peer-reviewed publications, as well as more than a dozen related publications.

UK Study Shows FDA-approved Leukemia Drug May Help Treat Metastatic Melanoma

Oct 29, 2020, 8:29 AM

Building on these findings, Plattner and Markey oncologists are now collaborating with the pharmaceutical company Novartis to develop a Phase I clinical trial to test the safety and effectiveness of using nilotinib in relapsed melanoma patients.

Tattoos Can Impair Sweating, Lead to Heat-Related Injuries

Oct 28, 2020, 8:31 AM

Although small tattoos are less likely to interfere with overall body temperature regulation, decreased sweating in tattooed skin “could impact heat dissipation especially when tattooing covers a higher percentage of body surface area,” the researchers wrote.

Multi-Million Dollar Multidisciplinary Grant Supports Advancement of Epilepsy Research

Oct 27, 2020, 8:45 AM

A $2.9 million grant from the NIH is supporting a multidisciplinary team of UK researchers in continuing their work to find therapeutic strategies to resolve neurovascular inflammation and repair blood-brain barrier dysfunction in epilepsy.

UK Cardiologist Discovers 'Game Changer' Therapy for Heart Failure Patients

Oct 27, 2020, 8:40 AM

Dr. Emma Birks, UK HealthCare's heart failure section chief, is working on a new treatment therapy that recovers the hearts of some patients with advanced-stage chronic heart failure and ultimately cut down the number of heart transplants needed.

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