The Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration, housed at the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Science (which funds the CCTS), highlighted the UK CCTS team science training program in its Insights to Inspire series.
The UK team is focused on engaging rural Black, Latine, and White communities in Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Mercer, and Fayette counties where vaccination rates are low.
Research from the UK College of Medicine and UK HealthCare Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center found high rates of traumatic exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a group of pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes.
Tegan, Piper and Josie Stanifer, daughters of UK College of Nursing researcher Stacy Stanifer, volunteered to be a part of the clinical trial that tests the efficacy of Modern COVID vaccine in children under 11 years old.
