Kirwan Prize, Sturgill Award Given to Outstanding Faculty

Two University of Kentucky faculty members were honored on April 25 with awards recognizing their outstanding contributions to teaching and scholarship at UK. Sidney W. Whiteheart, professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry in the UK College of Medicine, was awarded the 2013 Albert D. and...

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Research at a Glance

Grants and contracts in the College of Medicine reached $116.9 million in fiscal year 2012, (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012) including in excess of $66 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. In federal fiscal year 2011, (October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011) UK received 62 percent...

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New Insight Into ALS

Researchers at UK have discovered a new cellular mechanism that may better explain what causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that involves the death of motor neurons, leading to the muscle weakness and atrophy. The UK...

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Discovery

Discovery is an everyday occurrence in the lab of Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor of Physiology and professor and vice-chair in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Ambati has devoted his life's work to making blindness due to age...

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NIH Award

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $20 million to the University of Kentucky to move research discoveries to health care solutions more quickly. The five-year funding, awarded through the NIH's institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards program, is the largest research...

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