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Board Announces University Research Professorships for 2020-21

Jun 22, 2020, 8:42 AM

The purpose of the University Research Professorship program is to recognize and publicize research accomplishments of scholars across the full range of disciplines at UK.

Alpacas Could be the Secret Weapon Against COVID-19

Jun 18, 2020, 8:20 AM

UK College of Medicine researchers are using the special antibodies made by alpacas, called nanobodies, to help understand the novel coronavirus and potentially develop a treatment that could protect people from being infected.

UK College of Medicine, UK HealthCare Launch New START Trial to Assess COVID-19 Prevalence

Jun 17, 2020, 8:13 AM

Known as Serologic Testing to Accelerate Recovery and Transition (START), the study focuses on antibody testing to begin understanding how many people in the region may have already contracted and recovered from COVID-19.

CURE Alliance Uniting COVID-19 Research Across UK

Jun 12, 2020, 8:29 AM

UK researchers across many disciplines are addressing COVID-19’s medical challenges and beyond — including developing new PPE materials, designing testing and diagnostic equipment, and examining the wider societal, economic and legal implications of the pandemic.

UK Leads National Team Studying Pandemic’s Effect on Local Food Systems

Jun 11, 2020, 8:17 AM

The study seeks to answer how sectors of local and regional food systems are responding to COVID-19, what successful adaptations have been implemented, what obstacles the various arms of local food systems have encountered and the economic and value-chain impacts.

Clinical Trial Looks at Antiseptic Nasal Spray and Gargle to Prevent COVID-19 Infections

Jun 10, 2020, 10:34 AM

Researchers at UK are exploring the use of an antiseptic nasal spray and gargle to prevent transmission and infection of the virus among healthcare workers and non-COVID patients.

Pilot Program for COVID-19 Research Launches Multiple Projects in Record Time

Jun 10, 2020, 10:19 AM

A new pilot funding program for multidisciplinary COVID-19 research at the University of Kentucky has launched in record time and funded 12 pilot projects in as many weeks.

UK Researcher Part of Team That Found How Plants Forget

Jun 10, 2020, 8:23 AM

“Parental memories of environmental stresses such as drought and extreme temperatures can influence the growth and yield of its offspring. We can now start understanding how plants control such epigenetic memory reprogramming."

UK, SCC Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks

Jun 9, 2020, 8:16 AM

“The virus is about 120 nanometers in size — in the world of membranes, that's large. Even more so, it's not going to come as a virus by itself, flying in the air. It's going to come in the saliva, so it's going to be a much larger particle. A large particle is just not going through (this filter).”

Guoqiang Yu Awarded Two NIH Grants Totaling Nearly $4.7 Million

May 28, 2020, 8:37 AM

Guoqiang Yu has been awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health that total nearly $4.7 million. Yu researches near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy/tomography through his Biomedical Optics Lab.

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