Accelerating Discoveries to Improve Health
Join us for the 2024 CCTS Spring Conference!
2018 Conference Ballroom Shot

Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Central Bank Center in Lexington, Ky. 

This year's theme is "Dissemination and Implementation across the Translational Spectrum".

Full agenda available now!

Hundreds of researchers, clinicians, research staff, students, and community members will gather to share findings and foster collaborations.  As always, this event is free. 

Hartmann Named Director of the CCTS
Hartmann

Katherine E. Hartmann, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS). She will assume the role on February 15, 2024. 

In addition to her role at the UK CCTS, Hartmann will serve as associate vice president for research, clinical & translational science, and in the UK College of Medicine she will be the associate dean of research development and synergy, and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

McWhorter Recieves NIH Diversity Supplement Grant for Rural Pediatric Research
Headshot of Ketrell McWhorter, a young Black woman with shoulder-length twists, half pulled up into a high bun. She's smiling at the camera, wearing red lipstick, a black suit jacket, and there's a window with blinds behind her.

Ketrell L. McWhorter, PhD, MBA, ACE-CPT, ACE-FNS, assistant professor of epidemiology and environmental health in the UK College of Public Health, has been awarded a Diversity Supplement Grant from National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS).

The award supports her project “Impact of co-exposures on Pediatric Obesity and Sleep in Appalachian Children,” which seeks to disentangle the complex relationship between children’s exposure to second-hand smoke and air pollution, its impact on their sleep, and how these factors influence body weight and cardiometabolic outcomes.

Measuring Our Impact

20:1

ROI for Pilot Funding Program 

22:1

ROI on Appalachian Translational Research Network Grants

28

Appalachian Counties Impacted by the Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky