The National Science Foundation recently awarded a three-year, $1,163,869 grant to the University of Kentucky to develop new state-of-the-art metabolomics data analysis tools that will derive new data, knowledge and interpretation from the active metabolic state of organisms and ecosystems with broad biological and biomedical applications.
Ophthalmologist Ana Bastos de Carvalho has leveraged UK’s Physician Scientist Training Program to improve a network of telemedicine eye screenings for Kentuckians with diabetes in underserved communities.
Jon Thorson and UK were recently awarded a prestigious Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant to study translational chemical biology from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. The $11.2 million grant will fund UK's Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation.
Through the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, clinical institutions affiliated with the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program are partnering with National Center for Advancing Translational Science and the National Center for Data to Health to study COVID-19 and identify potential treatments and analytics tools.
The program is a collaboration of the UK CURE Alliance and Center for Clinical and Translational Science, who together moved the funding mechanism from concept to first award in 20 days.
After retiring as a teacher and learning she was pre-diabetic at age 57, Mary Beth Castle lost 81 pounds and began a new career as a Community Health Educator in Johnson County, Kentucky.
In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, the CCTS shares this video that would have opened the CCTS “Our Environment, Our Health” Spring Conference, originally scheduled for April 21.
Pharmacy graduate students David Henson (in the MD/PhD program) and David Nardo, PharmD (who were both supported by UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science’s NIH-funded TL1 pre-doctoral training program) are working to uncover potential new indicators of heart disease.
