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UK Scientists Uncover the Tools Nature Uses to Make Medicines

Mar 29, 2018, 9:40 AM

New findings from University of Kentucky researchers published in Nature Chemical Biology help reveal how nature makes complex chemicals with anticancer properties.

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UK to Grow Malaria-fighting Plants

Mar 29, 2018, 9:32 AM

UK researchers are participating in a project to grow a plant which can be used in medications to fight malaria.

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New Study Shows Repurposing Leukemia Drugs May Prevent Melanoma Metastasis

Feb 26, 2018, 8:48 AM

Data from a new study led by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that repurposing drugs used to treat leukemia has promise for preventing melanoma metastasis.

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Clinical Trial for Stroke Innovates Patient Care and Research at UK

Dec 21, 2017, 8:10 AM

Led by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists, the studies aim to develop new treatments using existing therapies that protect brain tissue after a stroke, and to learn more about the physiology of the event.

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Pharmacy Dean Kip Guy on Addressing Health Disparities & Neglected Diseases

Nov 9, 2017, 8:14 AM

Kip Guy shares his research on neglected diseases, his goals as dean of the College of Pharmacy, and how pharmacy researchers are addressing the opioid epidemic.

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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.

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UK College of Pharmacy Receives $5 Million for Malaria Research Collaboration

Aug 29, 2017, 9:09 AM

~$5 million in additional funding from the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT) has been awarded to the lab of Dean Kip Guy at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, in partnership with Eisai Pharmaceuticals and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), for ongoing malaria research.

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Kip Guy on Expecting the Unexpected

Aug 24, 2017, 9:09 AM

Kip Guy, Pharmacy Dean, is discovering and developing new drugs for neglected diseases.

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Yinan Wei Receives National Science Foundation Award

Aug 18, 2017, 8:35 AM

Yinan Wei, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Kentucky, has received an award to study membrane protein oligomerizations in bilayers. The project also integrates an outreach program for girls aged 12-18 at the Hope Hill Youth Service, introducing science and science careers.

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A Passion for Biochemistry Inspires UK Researcher's Quest to Discover New Antibiotics

Nov 16, 2016, 9:35 AM

Steven Van Lanen is hoping to find new antibiotic chemistry that defies drug resistance.

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