Biomedical
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  • Dec 19 2024

Qing Shao has been awarded more than $1.3 million from the U.S. National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine to develop large protein language models for biomedical applications.

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  • Dec 16 2024

The IMPACT Awards initiative is an internal funding program from the Office of the Provost designed to support innovation and transformation within UK’s colleges.

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  • Dec 9 2024

Researchers at UK are exploring new ways to use nanoparticles in combination with other materials as an innovative approach to cancer therapy.

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  • Nov 27 2024

Scholars are selected based on their academic achievements and a statement of interest in research. Four students were selected as 2024-25 Physiology Scholars.

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  • Sep 19 2024

The UK BNRC will host its first symposium later this month, promoting biotechnology and bioelectronics innovation at UK.

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  • Jul 17 2024

UK research team “ARENEX” focuses on the potential of CRISPR-based gene editing technology and won the Phase 1 competition of the NIH Targeted Genome Editor Delivery Challenge.

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  • Jul 11 2024

Guoqiang Yu, a professor in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

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  • Dec 4 2023

A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky is working to better understand the impact of opioid use disorder on mothers and babies.

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  • Jun 10 2021

Collaborative research by former UK College of Pharmacy Professor Hsin-Hsiung Tai, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University and University of Texas Southwestern has been acquired by Amgen Inc.

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  • Dec 14 2020

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has funded a University of Kentucky open source software project aimed at advancing scientific and biomedical research. Derek Young will use the grant to significantly modernize and enhance his two R packages, titled “mixtools” and “tolerance.”