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.

Dr. Jagannadha ‘Jay’ Avasarala, neurologist with the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute (KNI), recently published a study with others from the University of Kentucky’s Department of Neurology based on the fact that symptoms of MS can overlap with another disease known as neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).

A national leader in informatics research at the intersection of evidence-based policy and health care outcomes, Talbert has been at the forefront of building UK’s biomedical informatics capacity over the last 25 years.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have been studying the health impact of offering vouchers to employees for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares, which provide weekly bundles of fresh produce.

Lori Gresham, informatics project manager for the HEALing Communities Study to reduce opioid deaths, was presented with a congratulatory collection of CCTS-related items.

Jeffrey Talbert, PhD, associate director of the CCTS, interim director of CCTS Biomedical Informatics Core, and director of the UK Institute for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, presented his research at the Annual RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in D.C.

The conference focused on the science of health policy and systems change as strategies for population-level health improvement. Researchers, clinicians, students, community partners, and local and national experts gathered Monday, April 15th to share findings, disseminate best practices, and catalyze collaborations.

The ACT Network provides a real-time, open-access, no-cost platform for researchers throughout the CTSA consortium to explore and validate feasibility for clinical studies using aggregated electronic health record data from over 100 million patients nationwide.