The UK team is focused on engaging rural Black, Latine, and White communities in Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Mercer, and Fayette counties where vaccination rates are low.
Research from the UK College of Medicine and UK HealthCare Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center found high rates of traumatic exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a group of pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes.
Tegan, Piper and Josie Stanifer, daughters of UK College of Nursing researcher Stacy Stanifer, volunteered to be a part of the clinical trial that tests the efficacy of Modern COVID vaccine in children under 11 years old.
His book “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History” was an NYT bestseller and named by the National Academies of Science as the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine.
The CCTS will host the acclaimed medical historian John M. Barry, author of "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History," at the keynote panel of its 2021 Spring Research Days, to be held the afternoons of April 7 and 8.
The CCTS serves as the engine for UK's testing site of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s Phase 3 clinical research study ENSEMBLE 2, which is evaluating the safety and efficacy of a two-dose regimen of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate.