During the five-year period, UK and its partners will establish an infrastructure for patient navigation training, deploy training services in five Appalachian states, and coordinate patient navigation services with CDC-funded breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening sites in the region.

A growing body of evidence links childhood health status — specifically nutrition and physical activity — with academic achievement. This relationship will be the focus of the Kentucky Summit on Childhood Obesity and Physical Activity.

The Rural Cancer Prevention Center (RCPC) has received a $3.75 million, five-year grant renewal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to promote screening and prevent death from colorectal cancer in Central Appalachia and other rural areas.

Dr. Arthur Nitz and Dr. Babak Bazrgari are working towards a better understanding of the back’s mechanical environment in order to generate more accurate knowledge of the specific, biomechanical causes of back pain.

UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare are building upon their history of collaboration to expand research and educational collaborations between the two institutions, with the goal of improving health and health care for all Kentuckians.

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 National Institutes of Health has renewed a 5-year, $1.2 million grant to the University of Kentucky to help prepare clinical scholars for leadership positions in cardiovascular research.

The CCTS, in conjunction with the Appalachian Translational Research Network (ATRN), has awarded funding to two projects to develop sustainable, interdisciplinary, community engaged research in Appalachia.

With the funding and support from the CCTS and the National Institutes of Health, Noehren studies how muscle and physical function are affected by knee injuries--a significant source of disability in the United States--and how best to intervene and treat such injuries.

The CCTS has launched a new website that is especially oriented to researchers who currently use or could benefit from CCTS resources, including research services, funding opportunities, and education and career development.