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A peek at Matthew Gentry's professional profile reveals a long list of honors and awards.

A National Science Foundation Faculty Career Development Award.A National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence Award.A University of Kentucky Research Professorship Award.Three U.S. Patents.A five-year, $8.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to pursue a cure for Lafora disease.

Wait. Lafora disease? From a lab that also studies biofuels?

NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards - FY 2017

Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-086
Key Dates
Release Date:  June 30, 2017

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Revision: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) Predoctoral Stipends, Training Related Expenses, Institutional Allowance, and Tuition/Fees Effective for Fiscal Year 2017

Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-084
Key Dates
Release Date: June 27, 2017  

As you may know, NIH has created a new module for the online completion and submission of Final Research Performance Progress Reports (F-RPPRs).  While the F-RPPR and Annual RPPRs are similar, one notable difference is that you access the F-RPPR through the 鈥淧rocess Final RPPR鈥� link on the eRA Commons Closeout Status screen.  In contrast, Annual RPPRs are accessed via a similar link on the Commons Status screen.  This

With a $4.5 million award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, researchers in the University of Kentucky Center for Health Services Research (CHSR)  have established the Kentucky Consortium for Accountable Health Communities (KC-AHC) to address the health-related social needs of vulnerable patients across the Commonwealth.

Effective immediately, the College of Medicine SRAS GPSs will be using health insurance rates in grant budgets based on actual enrollment information that is available to them for College of Medicine employees via HR/Payroll in SAP. Previously, the highest rate for full family coverage has been used in most cases, since the budget figure was just expected to be an estimate of expenses.

The Diabetes Research Center at Washington University in collaborativion with the University of Kentucky announce the application process for Collabroative Pilot and Feasibility Awards .  One or two awards in of $40,000 each for one year are being offered by the group.  The grant submission deadline is 5pm on August 7, 2017.

Whether your unit initiates its own subawards using the OSPA On-Line Subagreement Request System, or you work with your COM SRAS analyst to do so, OSPA has provided a

好色先生 Center on Drug and Alcohol Research director Sharon Walsh will deliver the honorary Marian W. Fischman Lectureship during the College on Drug Dependence Annual Conference, June 17-22 in Montreal, Canada. Memorializing the late research pioneer Marian Fischman, the lectureship is bestowed to a woman scientist who has created transformative change in the field of drug abuse research.

[From the NIH website]

NIH Reminds Recipients to Submit Complete, Timely and Accurate Progress and Financial Reports

Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-074

Key Dates
Release Date: June 5, 2017

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Procard Reminder -- Using a 好色先生-issued standard Procard to purchase a payment card from a vendor is a violation of the Procard policy. Standard Procards cannot be used to access cash, which includes any type of cash equivalent.  A payment card from a vendor would be considered a cash equivalent because it establishes an upfront balance to be utilized at a later date.  

[From the NIH Website]

Additional Change to the NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Policy on Post-Submission Materials

Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-066

Key Dates
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Implementation Date: Applications submitted for due dates on or after September 25, 2017  

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A new book co-written by Nathan Vanderford, University of Kentucky assistant professor in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, guides STEM graduate and postdoctoral students in their career planning by evaluating goals and finding the steps to be taken to achieve them.

The Third Annual Appalachian Research Day was held May 24 in Hazard, Ky., hosted by the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH). The event invites researchers and community members to 鈥渃ome sit on the porch鈥� and share research findings with the local communities involved in the studies.  

Rural Appalachian communities experience some of the most severe health disparities in the nation, and community-based research is an effective method to identify problems and develop collaborative, effective solutions.

In the 24 May 2017 edition of "Nature", an articled appeared outling tips for winning grants. To read the full article, click here.

Katy Brewer, a doctoral student in the University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, was chosen as one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter C of Lexington, Kentucky. Brewer was a National Merit Finalist and a Patterson Scholarship recipient and graduated summa cum laude from 好色先生 in 2013 with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology. She is now pursuing a doctorate in Matthew Gentry's lab at 好色先生.

The Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center hosted its seventh annual Obesity and Diabetes Research Day on Thursday, May 18 at the Lee T. Todd Biomedical Pharmaceutical Complex Building. The purpose of Research Day is to focus on current findings in diabetes and obesity related research.

Calling all postdocs & grad students!

If you鈥檝e driven along Virginia Avenue, toward main campus, you鈥檝e seen the steel skeleton of the new research building under construction. This is Research Building 2 (RB2), a precious resource and a vehicle for the University of Kentucky to reduce the health disparities that most impact Kentucky.