The first published work coming from a multi-million-dollar grant received last year by a team from the University of Kentucky recently made the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience.
This is a free event for older adults to explore interactive booths, free health and memory screenings, and presentations on HEALTHY AGING! Lunch will be provided. Registration is not required.
48th Annual Naff Symposium
04/21/2023 - 08:00 am - 04/21/2023 - 04:30 pm
W.T. Young Library Auditorium
Agenda, featured speakers and more information here.
Throughout March, UK is spotlighting Women Making History. These women are leading their fields of research and impacting the lives of Kentuckians. For Allison Gibson, Ph.D., her passion is helping some of the most vulnerable Kentuckians.
The University of Kentucky is a site for the groundbreaking AHEAD study, the first-ever clinical trial to test the effect of a promising drug known as lecanemab.
The Pat Summitt Foundation presented a $25,000 grant to the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) during the UK women’s basketball game against Auburn University on January 26, 2023.
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is now a site for the first-ever clinical trial testing the effect lecanemab has in people with no cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease but have amyloid present in their brains.
Donna Wilcock, Ph.D., was awarded a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant for her lab’s exploration of adverse effects of two new Alzheimer’s disease drugs shown to slow the progression of cognitive decline.
