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XLerateHealth LLC, a Louisville-based health care technology accelerator that focuses on startups and commercialization, will join forces with a consortium of 24 academic institutions led by UK, in partnership with UofL and West Virginia University.

Now, Smith's expertise in systems engineering is being used in another, potentially life-saving capacity — the Bloomberg Philanthropies 2018 Mayors Challenge, which recognizes innovative ideas aimed at tackling urgent problems.

Appler's grant is among the first awards made under the National Endowment for the Humanities' new Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grant program, which will support infrastructure projects at 29 U.S. cultural institutions in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

Indiana University Bloomington will utilize technology invented and patented at UK's Center for Applied Energy Research.

A study through the UK Markey Cancer Center shows promise for targeting breast cancer metastasis. Metastasis causes 90 percent of breast cancer-related deaths.

The Kentucky-West Virginia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (KY-WV LSAMP) consortium, spearheaded by the University of Kentucky, has received $3.5 million in renewed funding over the next five years by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

UK physics Professor Brad Plaster’s research on the tiniest particles has potentially massive repercussions.

The 8th Annual Sanders-Brown Center on Aging's Markesbery Symposium will take place Oct. 26-27.

Associate Professor Ann Morris in the Department of Biology will use the National Institutes of Health funding to continue her cutting-edge research in retinal development and regeneration.

Two studies from Ai-Ling Lin's lab in the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging demonstrate the effect of diet — specifically the Ketogenic diet and simple caloric restriction — on cognitive health in animals.