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.
After retiring as a teacher and learning she was pre-diabetic at age 57, Mary Beth Castle lost 81 pounds and began a new career as a Community Health Educator in Johnson County, Kentucky.
In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, the CCTS shares this video that would have opened the CCTS “Our Environment, Our Health” Spring Conference, originally scheduled for April 21.
Pharmacy graduate students David Henson (in the MD/PhD program) and David Nardo, PharmD (who were both supported by UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science’s NIH-funded TL1 pre-doctoral training program) are working to uncover potential new indicators of heart disease.
Martin County has been experiencing a water crisis for decades, with the 8th highest cost of water in the state. A participant of the CCTS Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky co-authored a report how residents, many of whom can’t afford their water bills, are impacted.
Health research changes lives. Participating is a way to help others by "giving forward," and it's also an opportunity to learn more about your own health.
The five-year, $3.2 million project called Communities Helping the Hearing of Infants by Reaching Parents, or CHHIRP, aims to improve the process of timely access to diagnostic tests by pairing families with patient navigators.
