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People Behind Our Research: Katherine Hartmann leads UK clinical and translational research

Katherine Hartmann, the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science's new director, is creating synergy across the campus, promoting collaborations and advancing the health of the Commonwealth.

People Behind Our Research: Lauren Whitehurst explores how sleep impacts health, wellbeing

Lauren Whitehurst, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and assistant director of the UNITE Research Priority Area, studies how sleep is affected by our genetics and living environments.

People Behind Our Research: An innate curiosity inspired Darwin Conwell's medical career

Curiosity and an eagerness to learn led Darwin Conwell, M.D., to a career as a medical pancreatologist. Now the chair of internal medicine, Conwell brings his passion for science and education to the College of Medicine and UK HealthCare.

People Behind Our Research: Ilhem Messaoudi Decoding the Mysteries of the Immune System

UK College of Medicine researcher Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D., has dedicated her career to developing a better understanding of how the immune system works, paving the way for improving how people respond to vaccines and infections.

Nancy Schoenberg: Listening to Communities to Create Equitable Solutions

The best solutions begin by listening to the people whose problems you’re trying to solve. That community-based focus has been a guiding value of Nancy Schoenberg's 25 years at UK.

Ann Stowe: Understanding Stroke Recovery

In this edition of People Behind Our Research, UK's Ann Stowe explains her work to understand how inflammation after stroke can be shaped to support rewiring in the brain and recovery of function that might be lost with injury.

Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf and the Epigenetics of Cancer

Could people in Eastern Kentucky, whose primary water sources have high levels of arsenic, take zinc to prevent cancer? Cancer epigeneticist Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf says her data points to this non-invasive fix.

Michele Staton's Research Passion is Helping Incarcerated Women Address Substance Abuse

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we are highlighting women of UK. Researcher and Appalachian Kentucky native Michele Staton has a passion to help incarcerated women struggling with substance abuse.

UK Physiologist Uses Biomechanics to Understand Lung Healing

With funds from NIH, Chris Waters is studying the biomechanics of lung healing to help patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Barbara Nikolajczyk and the Inflammation-Diabetes Connection

With funds from NIH, Barbara Nikolajczyk is tracking the trajectory of type 2 diabetes. She's following metabolically healthy people as they naturally progress to diabetes, looking for potential drug targets along the way.

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