The CCTS team hosted booths at the Roots & Heritage Festival on Sept. 8 and the Festival Latino on Sept. 15 to provide opportunities for the community to ask questions about participating in research and learn about getting involved.
UK HealthCare’s University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital remains the No. 1 hospital in Kentucky and the Bluegrass Region for the third consecutive year, according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals Ranking.
Dr. Edward Kasarskis and his team have used genealogy records to trace a rare form of familial ALS that seems to cluster in Central Appalachia. Supported by a pilot grant from the UK Multidisciplinary Value Program, they are investigating a personalized treatment approach.
Heather Bush, PhD, co-director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Research Design (BERD) for the CCTS, has been named Chair of Biostatistics in the UK College of Public Health.
As a step toward improving health equity, the University of Kentucky Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) was established and recently approved by the UK Board of Trustees. The mission of CHET is to build and enhance innovative, transdisciplinary and impactful research and training aimed at improving the health of vulnerable Kentucky residents.
University of Kentucky health communication researcher Don Helme is partnering with the Kentucky Attorney General’s office to gauge public opinion on a new drug deactivation pouch, part of a larger effort to develop solutions to the state’s opioid epidemic.
At the University of Kentucky, a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists is investigating a therapy for one particular genetic type of ALS that seems to be clustered in central Appalachia.
Nearly 1,000 researchers, clinicians, students, trainees, community partners and local and national experts participated in the day-long, multidisciplinary event to share their findings and enhance collaborations.
The CCTS will host Paul A. Harris, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Office of Research Informatics and Recruitment Innovation Center, for a Clinical Research Update on Tuesday, April 17.
