Singer, physician, athlete and inspirational speaker Dr. Ronan Tynan is no stranger to adversity. When Tynan was 20, his legs had to be amputated below the knee after an auto accident caused serious complications. Just weeks after the operation, he was climbing up the steps of his college dorm, and within a year, he was winning gold medals in the Paralympics as a multitalented athlete.
Between 1981 and 1984, Tynan amassed 18 gold medals and 14 world records, of which he still holds nine.
The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science will host the 2nd Annual ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Clinical Research Education Day on Friday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Chandler Hospital, Pavilion H North Lobby (outside of the administration offices).
The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) Pilot Funding Program announces recipients of its most recent round of pilot funding in the Collaborative Category.
The "Triple Crown" is a term reserved for the greatest accomplishment in thoroughbred racing -- winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.
The University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute and the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Saha Cardiovascular Research Center will host the 16th Annual Gill Heart Cardiovascular Research Day, Oct. 11, at the Lexington Convention Center. Gill Heart Insitute Cardiovascular Research Day annually attracts preeminent speakers in the field of cardiology and cardiovascular research. It also features a symposium for trainee researchers, a scientific poster session, and the presentation of the annual Saha Awards for medical and nursing education. This year, speakers include Dr.
You may not know the human metapneumovirus by name, but chances are that you have met somewhere before.
HMPV, as it's known to virologists, is a common respiratory virus that new studies suggest is second only to influenza in the number of viral pneumonia cases it causes worldwide every year. Especially dangerous for small children, the elderly, and anyone with a compromised immune system, the virus strikes almost 100 percent of people on Earth at some point in their lives.
What if we could pinpoint a hereditary cause for
Alzheimer's, and intervene to reduce the risk of the disease? We may be closer to that goal, thanks to a team at the University of Kentucky. Researchers affiliated with the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have completed new work in Alzheimer's genetics; the research is detailed in a paper published today in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Emerging evidence indicates that, much like in the case of high cholesterol, some Alzheimer's disease risk is inherited while the remainder is environmental.
As a native Kentuckian, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Dr. Susanne Arnold understands many of the health issues our state faces — and focusing on the problems that hit hardest close to home has kept her motivated in her work.
"I got into research in Appalachia because I'm an eighth-generation Kentuckian, and my father, who was also a doctor and researcher, was a seventh-generation Kentuckian," Arnold said. "I learned a very valuable lesson from him — that we can't make progress in the treatment of diseases without being invested in the research that we do."
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center was joined by national, state and local leaders today to celebrate its designation as a National Cancer Institute cancer center. The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Markey Cancer Center is the 68th medical center in the country to receive this prestigious designation, and is the only NCI-designated cancer center in the state of Kentucky.
"Kentucky’s extraordinarily high cancer rates cause untold suffering within our families," said Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear.
Two University of Kentucky faculty members were honored on April 25 with awards recognizing their outstanding contributions to teaching and scholarship at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú.
Sidney W. Whiteheart, professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry in the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú College of Medicine, was awarded the 2013 Albert D. and Elizabeth H.
Alzheimer's disease is on the rise, but the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is a major player in the fight against this debilitating condition. Since the founding of the SBCoA in 1979, and the federal funding of the SBCoA Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) in 1985, the center has made many contributions to the body of knowledge about Alzheimer's and related brain aging conditions.
The facts about Alzheimer's disease are staggering. An estimated 5.2 million Americans and approximately 34 million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $20 million to the University of Kentucky to move research discoveries to health care solutions more quickly. The five-year funding, awarded through the NIH's institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards program, is the largest research funding award ever received by ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú and will be used to support research at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú's Center for Clinical and Translational Science, making it part of a select national biomedical research consortium. The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú center is led by Dr.
The University of Kentucky has developed several research strengths, particularly in therapeutic areas that have high prevalence in Kentucky. These strengths include research into cancer, substance abuse, neurological diseases and cardiovascular sciences.
University of Kentucky is part of an elite group of medical centers across the country who have earned the "trifecta" of national federal funding.
Researchers at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú have discovered a new cellular mechanism that may better explain what causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that involves the death of motor neurons, leading to the muscle weakness and atrophy.
