Elizabeth Chapin

May 14, 2020

UK Gets NSF Funding to Develop Face Mask that Can Deactivate COVID-19

UK engineering professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya, or "DB," directing research in his lab. With co-researchers, DB is creating a membrane-based medical face mask for COVID-19. Photo by Ben Corwin, Research Communications
May 6, 2020

UK Launches Clinical Trial to Evaluate Novel Treatments for COVID-19

COVID-19 clinical trial principal investigators Dr. Susanne Arnold, associate director of clinical translation at the UK Markey Cancer Center and Dr. Zachary Porterfield, assistant professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics.
May 11, 2020

UK Researchers Will Lead Study of COVID-19 Immunity

UK researcher Jerry Woodward running a COVID-19 antibody assay in the Flow Cytometry and Immune Monitoring lab. Photo by Ben Corwin, Research Communications.
April 27, 2020

McConnell Announces UK to Receive $3.8 Million from CARES Act

April 29, 2020

New $6.6 Million UK Study Could Change What We Know About Platelets

University of Kentucky professor Sidney Whiteheart (fourth from left) with members of his lab and rotation students. Whiteheart is leading a study on platelet function that will provide the groundwork for important therapeutic development.
April 20, 2020

UK’s Superfund Research Center Receives $8.7 Million

UK Superfund Research Center director Bernhard Hennig (right) with doctoral students who are part of the center’s “Project #1,” which examines how nutrients affect toxicity caused by PCBs in vascular tissues.
April 9, 2020

COVID-19 Survivors Sought for Plasma Donations

Photo from Getty Images.
April 3, 2020

University of Kentucky Researchers Unite to Fight COVID-19

UK virologist Rebecca Dutch (right) with graduate trainee. Dutch is leading UK College of Medicine's CURE Alliance team, which is focused on advising COVID-19 patient care and clinical trials.
April 2, 2020

UK Researchers Seek to Develop Antiviral Membrane Mask

University of Kentucky researcher Dibakar Bhattacharyya has the concept and the means to develop a medical face mask that would capture and deactivate the COVID-19 virus on contact.
April 2, 2020

UK Virology Expert Answers Key Questions on COVID-19

Dutch says COVID-19 is in the coronavirus family, but it almost looks intermediate between common cold viruses and SARS or MERS. The mortality rates are lower than SARS or MERS, but the transmission rates are much higher.

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