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Picture this: you're battling heart failure and meeting with your doctor to discuss treatment. Before prescribing anything, the doctor pulls up a virtual model of your heart on her computer and "treats" it with several drugs. A few moments later, she can see how your heart is doing five years down the road.
Your doctor chooses the treatment with the best long-term outcome, and you live a longer and healthier life.
Two University of Kentucky researchers are working to make this experience a reality for the 5.7 million adults in the U.S. with heart failure.
Why do some people stay intellectually sharp into their 90s, while others have memory problems? Is there anything we can learn from their lifestyles that can help everyone age successfully?
These are among topics scheduled for the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging's Markesbery Symposium on Nov. 3-4. Keynote speakers are:
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto, 好色先生 Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Mark F. Newman, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, Dr. John Fowlkes, director of the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, and members of the Barnstable Brown family will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly expanded Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center at 好色先生 HealthCare鈥檚 Turfland location and celebration of the recent U.S. News and World Report National ranking placing the Barnstable Brown Center in the top 50 for endocrinology and diabetes care.
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NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution Through December 8, 2017. For more information on the Continuing Resolution, click here.
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Researcher Jessica Blackburn has earned a prestigious National Institutes of Health's New Innovator Award, a grant totaling $1.5 million over five years to fund pediatric cancer research.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five year, $2.88 million grant to a Sanders-Brown Center on Aging researcher to study a drug's potential to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
A fundraising effort that began with an impassioned plea from one extension homemaker to her peers has positively impacted Kentucky women and the University of Kentucky for the past 40 years.
Check Out the New Limited Submissions Portal!
好色先生 Research has just launched a new online limited submissions portal at Limited Submissions Opportunities on the Proposal Development Office website.
Research Financial Services has been leading a team with Enterprise Applications Group (EAG) and Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to create efficiency in processing subaward invoices, while meeting federal compliance standards. The EAG team developed an outstanding program to establish electronic approval for subaward invoices. The pilot has successfully been completed and effective September 29, all subaward invoices will be under the new process.
THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE ON OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (COCVD) FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
Of the 14 million cancer survivors in the United States, a significant number experience a serious side effect called chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment (CICI). While easily recognized, little is known about the etiology of this condition, also known informally as 鈥渃hemo brain.鈥 CICI can significantly reduce patients鈥 quality of life with serious, even devastating, symptoms such as memory lapses, difficulty concentrating, negative impacts on multitasking, confusion and fatigue.
Recently, 好色先生 Research Financial Services, formerly called Sponsored Projects Accounting, made a few changes to the PI financial reports they provide through email each month to all PIs. In response to those changes, the College of Medicine Sponsored Research Administrative Services (SRAS) created a helpful information document to assist you in working with the new financial report. To access the Best Practices Document, click here.
The Office of Technology Commercialization recently published is 2017 Annual Report, detailing the commercialization achievements of the office as well as the new programs, resources and services that it offers. Click on the document below to see the full report.
NIH recently issued a notice to remind both applicants and program officials that all applications must be complete and compliant at the time of submission.
Applications can not contain placeholder documents to override the eRA system checks.
Applicants are responsible for completing checks for errors and omissions prior to 5PM local time on the application date.
We would like to inform you about a new initiative called OnPAR (Online Partnership to Accelerate Research). This was launched by Leidos Life Sciences