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Aug 11 2020

Cancer, COVID and the Kentucky Economy: How 'Sweet Annie' Could Make an Impact

Artemisia annua or "Sweet Annie" has been used as a medicinal herb for centuries. With potential to treat a variety of cancers & even COVID-19, this plant is more relevant than ever & UK is showing how we can take it from Kentucky fields to the lab to our patients.

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Aug 14 2020
UK Research Aims to Improve Diversity in the Workplace: How You Can Help

"Most of the work on emotional burden has focused primarily on white women and motherhood. This research is really the first of its kind. My hope is that we identify trends to help improve organizational inclusivity and combat injustice and inequity."
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Aug 13 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Tested at UK Shows Positive Preclinical Results

PDS0203 stands out among COVID-19 vaccines currently in development because it includes a vaccine technology pioneered by PDS Biotech called Versamune®, which stimulates important parts of the immune system to activate T cells.
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Aug 13 2020
Thorson Named Associate Dean for Research at UK College of Pharmacy

Thorson has 189 publications with over 11,000 citations, is an inventor on 27 patents and was most recently recognized for his role in securing the prestigious Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant.
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Aug 12 2020
UK Researcher Named AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow

AAAS fellows serve yearlong assignments in the federal government. Larian will be placed at the Center for Nutrition in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau of Resilience and Food Security in Washington D.C.

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Series Spotlight People Behind Our Research

Why do we want you to meet our researchers?

The scientists and scholars at the University of Kentucky are remarkable people. Some of them have a very personal connection to field they have chosen: a family member battling addiction or disease. Some of them began their journey based on curiosity. A drive to find out why the world works the way it does.

What they all have in common is a passion to ignite progress and partner across fields and with communities to confront, head on, the most profound challenges. Research can do that, and our researchers tell you why and how.

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Feb 19 2020
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.
May 23 2019
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.
Mar 8 2019
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.

Research Blog

Aug 4 2020
Record-breaking Grants & Contracts Power UK Innovation in 2020
Jun 5 2020
UK Resumption of Research Phased Plan Available Now
Feb 25 2020
UK Faculty Receive Prestigious National Research Honors
Dec 18 2019
Research Facility Embodies Promise to be the University for Kentucky

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Recent Reports

Aug 5 2020
UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2019
Dec 10 2019
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2018-2019 Annual Report
Apr 19 2019
UK Research Annual Report Fiscal Year 2018
Dec 11 2018
RCTF Endowment Match Program 2017-2018 Annual Report

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Apr 07 2020

'Behind the Blue': Rebecca Dutch on UK’s Efforts to Treat, Understand and Eradicate COVID-19

The COVID-19 Unified Research Experts (CURE) Alliance team, a new workgroup within UK’s College of Medicine, is bringing together UK experts from across the campus to focus on advising COVID-19 patient care and clinical trials based on emerging research and potential treatment options.

Apr 7 2020
'Behind the Blue': UK Sports Medicine Research Institute’s Equestrian Athlete Initiative

On this week’s edition of the “Behind the Blue” podcast, Carl Nathe of UK Public Relations and Strategic Communications talks with Nick Heebner and Kimberly Tumlin about a new research effort, the Equestrian Athlete Initiative.
Apr 2 2020
Free Radical Discovery a Hallmark of Allan Butterfield’s 45-Year Research Career

When you look back at a 45-year career, there are a multitude of moments that stand out. For Allan Butterfield, Professor of Biological Chemistry in the UK College of Arts & Sciences, his signature discovery grew from just such a Eureka moment on the sidewalk on campus.
Feb 10 2020
'Behind the Blue': Everything is Science Takes Discovery to New Locations

Everything is Science is a weeklong festival featuring experts from Lexington and beyond, who will give presentations, demonstrations and conversation in laid-back spaces.

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Aug 11 2020
Cancer, COVID and the Kentucky Economy: How 'Sweet Annie' Could Make an Impact

Artemisia annua or "Sweet Annie" has been used as a medicinal herb for centuries. With potential to treat a variety of cancers & even COVID-19, this plant is more relevant than ever & UK is showing how we can take it from Kentucky fields to the lab to our patients.
Jun 18 2020
Alpacas Could be the Secret Weapon Against COVID-19

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.
Jun 9 2020
UK, SCC Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks

“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).”
Apr 14 2020
Art Meets Science in UK 3D Designs of PPE

"The country is running out of personal protection equipment, which is important to prevent not just my friends from getting sick, but my wife, too. She works as a physician," Winkler said. "We must protect those who are risking their lives to protect others from this disease."

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