UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging celebrates 40 years as an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 15, 2025) — University of Kentucky leadership, along with state and community leaders, joined members of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to celebrate a significant achievement: 40 years of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their revolutionary work in the field of Alzheimer’s and dementia. 

KCH awarded $2.5 million grant to support pediatric cancer research

Zebrafish research reveals new hope for pediatric cancer

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 10, 2025) — A tiny fish with translucent skin could make a big difference in how we treat pediatric cancer — and the research is happening at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.

CAER, state Energy and Environment Cabinet complete sustainable aviation fuel study

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 10, 2025) — The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (EEC) have completed a risk assessment of representative fats, oils and grease (FOG) feedstocks that can be used to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Kentucky.

UK researchers uncover key brain cell communication breakdown in Alzheimer’s disease

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 9, 2025) — A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging now have a better understanding of how the brain’s support cells communicate with blood vessels — a process that goes awry in Alzheimer’s disease.  

Workshop unites pathologists and regulators to advance racehorse safety

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 7, 2025) — More than 55 veterinarians, trainees and industry experts gathered in Lexington at the University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (VDL) Sept. 18-20 for the 2025 Racehorse Necropsy Workshop designed to improve how racehorse fatality examinations are conducted and how findings are used to prevent future injuries.  

Robotic surgery system offers new hope for lung cancer patients

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 3, 2025) – When Shelia Binion went to UK St. Claire for a lung biopsy, it happened to be on her birthday. Binion had undergone a CT scan for a breast abscess that happened to also reveal a lung nodule. A follow up scan showed the nodule in her lung had grown, so her doctor ordered a biopsy to rule out cancer. The nodule was in a precarious place, and the chance of her lung collapsing during the biopsy was high. Collapse it did, and Binion was admitted to the hospital.

UK to lead federal research effort on East Palestine health impacts

UK Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic redesignated as qualified care center

More than a headache — KCH patient tackles rare condition with grit and strength

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 30, 2025) — William Dean had just arrived at football practice in fall 2022 when he suddenly got an intense headache. Brittany and Tyler Dean knew their 8-year-old needed immediate help.