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Research Advancing Kentucky: Driving change in chronic disease treatment

May 23, 2025, 8:57 AM
Biomedical Research

Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D., is supported by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. 

Clinical trials make discovery happen at UK

May 20, 2025, 5:08 PM
Biomedical Research

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 20, 2025) — Today is International Clinical Trials Day, which “recognizes the invaluable contributions of clinical research professionals who drive innovation, uphold patient safety and push the boundaries of discovery,” according to the Society of Clinical Research Associates. The date, May 20, commemorates the day that James Lind began the first randomized clinical trial in 1747. In the years since, clinical research has become the foundation of improving how we understand, prevent and treat disease.    

Research Advancing Kentucky: Supporting healthy aging at home

May 16, 2025, 1:28 PM
Biomedical Research

Elizabeth Rhodus, Ph.D., is supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The goal of the NIA is to conduct and support research on aging and the health and well-being of older people to better understand the nature of aging and the aging process, and diseases and conditions associated with growing older, in order to extend the healthy, active years of life.

Research Advancing Kentucky: Offering a future beyond addiction

May 16, 2025, 12:06 PM
Kentucky

William Stoops, Ph.D., is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which aims to advance science on drug use and addiction prevention, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.  

Research Advancing Kentucky: Predicting and preventing heart attacks, strokes

May 16, 2025, 11:26 AM
Biomedical Research

Vincent Venditto, Ph.D., is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. He is also an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the UK College of Pharmacy. 

Study suggests maple syrup industry can tap into, expand Kentucky’s forest economy

May 15, 2025, 5:12 PM
Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 15, 2025) – Kentucky’s forests, traditionally valued for their timber and recreation, could soon become a source of sweet economic opportunity, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE).    

Breaking barriers in brain health: Sanders-Brown’s 40-year legacy of Alzheimer’s research

May 14, 2025, 10:02 AM
Biomedical Research

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 14, 2025) — For the past four decades, the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) has been at the forefront of Alzheimer’s disease research, making groundbreaking discoveries that have shaped our understanding of this complex condition. 

Research Advancing Kentucky: Creating meaningful change

May 12, 2025, 1:40 PM
Kentucky

April Young, Ph.D., is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which aims to reduce the negative impacts of drug use, inform effective policy development, raise public understanding of addiction as a chronic yet treatable medical condition and combat the stigma surrounding it.    .

Research Advancing Kentucky: Offering life-saving solutions

May 12, 2025, 1:37 PM
Kentucky

Thomas Prisinzano, Ph.D., is supported by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, which aims to advance science on drug use and addiction prevention, and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.      

Research Advancing Kentucky: Driving dementia breakthroughs

May 12, 2025, 1:33 PM
Biomedical Research

David Fardo, Ph.D., is supported by the National Institute of Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Fardo is the inaugural Stephen W. Wyatt Endowed Professor in the UK College of Public Health and affiliate faculty in the Sanders-Brown Center of Aging.

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