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With funds from NIH, Barbara Nikolajczyk is tracking the trajectory of type 2 diabetes. She's following metabolically healthy people as they naturally progress to diabetes, looking for potential drug targets along the way.

The new Center for Health Equity Transformation aims to grow health equity research at the University of Kentucky by training and providing professional development guidance to those interested in studying and addressing health disparities.

Research Day highlights the diabetes and obesity research of students, faculty and staff from around the region.

Police officers, firefighters and military personnel face daunting physical obstacles while on the job, often coupled with intense mental stress.

This fall, Nancy Schoenberg and her team of community and university researchers in the UK College of Medicine and the UK College of Public Health were awarded a new five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to continue the Faith Moves Mountains initiative.

Research Building 2 (RB2) is a precious resource and a vehicle for UK to reduce the health disparities that most impact Kentucky.

UK announces $11.2 million NIH grant for cancer and metabolism center that supports research by junior faculty.

Leryn Reynolds is studying how PCB exposure during pregnancy impacts the risk of obesity and diabetes.

Nika Larian is studying the AHR transcription factor in drug metabolism and detoxification.

Stamm's work shows the function of snoRNAs in regulating alternative splicing.