Elizabeth Chapin

June 12, 2020

CURE Alliance Uniting COVID-19 Research Across UK

UK researchers Jerry Woodward and Siva Gandhapudi have received a CURE Alliance/CCTS pilot project grant to support their research on COVID-19 antibodies. Photo by Ben Corwin, Research Communications.
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.
Thursday

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.

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