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News Archive
1.14.08 Ambati Receives RPB Award
12.13.07 NIH Funds Study of Cardiovascular Disease
12.11.07 Markey Cancer Foundation Awards Nearly $800,000
11.27.07 UK Creates Cancer-Resistant Mouse
9.24.07 Senior Hunger in America to be Studied
8.15.07 Endowed Professorship in Gerontology, Intergenerational Social Work Announced
8.07.07 Lung Cancer Survivor and Family Endow New Cancer Professorship
6.21.07 Profs' Social Network Research Gains International Acclaim
6.19.07 O Magazine Features Interview with Ovarian Cancer Expert
5.16.07 Blood Conservation During Heart Surgery Good for Patients and Local Blood Banks
4.24.07 UK Completes Third Round of Bucks for Brains Fundraising
4.03.07 Award Will Enable Researcher to Bring Lab Discovery to Clinical Trial
3.26.07 New Blood Thinner May Work Without Bleeding Risk
3.26.07 UK Part of Nationwide Parkinson's Trial
3.23.07 Moliterno Takes State's Lead Cardiology Role
1.24.07 UK to Create Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Mental Health
12.1.06 Blood Test That Detects Lung Cancer Featured in National Health Magazine
10.18.06 Intrinsic Eye Protein Halts Angiogenesis
9.08.06 Bell Addictive Diseases Chair Established
8.24.06 Lung cancer research done by University of Kentucky faculty members Edward A. Hirschowitz and Li Zhong continues to attract national and worldwide attention in media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and the global radio program The Voice of America.
8.16.06 For the past four years, Edward A. Hirschowitz has led work on a "therapeutic vaccine" to prevent lung cancer recurrance in people who have already had traditional treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy. In Kentucky, more than 3,000 people die of lung cancer each year, and at a much higher rate than any other state.
5.30.06 Natasha Kyprianou has become the first scientist honored with the "Woman in Urology Award for Excellence in Urology Research," a joint award from the Society of Women in Urology and Society for Basic Urologic Research.
3.01.06 Leslie Crofford is leading the first statewide registry in the country to track the health of women. Over the next 10 years, Crofford hopes to collect data from 25,000 Kentucky women.
9.30.05 The October 3rd issue of Newsweek featured Debra K. Moser in an article called "The Good Heart." The article focuses on Moser's work, examining the importance of a patient's psychological outlook as a factor in cardiovascular health.
9.15.05 Anne-Frances Miller is the 2006 recipient of the Michael and Kate Bárány Award for Young Investigators from the Biophysical Society for her 10 years of research in biophysics.
9.13.05 The UK Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence received nearly $6 million from NIH and NINDS to continue work on the promising drug glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF).
9.8.05 A research breakthrough by Guo-Min Li will be the cover story in the September issue of the premier international research science journal, Cell Magazine.
4.12.05 A study of a drug that reduces the pain of fibromyalgia and improves sleep is being published by Leslie Crofford in the peer-reviewed journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
4.11.05 UK’s CPST has collaborated with Ohio State University researchers in developing the anti-cancer properties of black raspberries to fight head and neck cancer.
9.28.04 The UK College of Dentistry has been awarded a $10.9 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant from a division of NIH.
9.22.04 UK received a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant totaling more than $10 million for research into cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.11.13.03 NIH awarded more than $6 million to the UK College of Pharmacy to study new treatments for nicotine addiction. Linda Dwoskin, Peter Crooks and Michael Bardo will conduct preclinical studies to develop new therapies for tobacco use cessation and for treatment of nicotine dependence.