The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently named the University of Kentucky School of Human Environmental Sciences a national coordinating center for excellence in nutrition education and obesity prevention research.
A multidisciplinary team of doctors, researchers, and informaticists at the University of Kentucky is working to improve identification of lung cancer patients who are eligible to participate in clinical trials for novel treatments.
The CHSR is focused on creating, testing and scaling next-generation solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care delivery and the overall health of people within Kentucky and beyond.
UK has signed an agreement with Comprehensive Health Insights (CHI) to allow UK and CHI to share data for educational and research purposes and collaborate on research initiatives to improve health outcomes.
In its first three years of funding by a federal Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), the CCTS has invested $652,999 in support for young scientists interested in biomedical imaging.
The Division of Biomedical Informatics and the Division of Cancer Biostatistics were created to meet the expanding campus biostatistical and biomedical informatics research and teaching needs.
