The goal of the new multidisciplinary CNS-Met COBRE is to create a strategically designed framework that promotes leading-edge research on the role of metabolic mediators of brain function and disease.
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The incidence of spinal cord injury is over 17,000 new cases per year in the United States. The University of Kentucky is home to the Spinal Cord Injury and Research Center which helps develop new treatment methods for those who experience such trauma. This week Dr. Greg talks with acting director John Gensel about the center and his takeaways from a national conference he recently attended on the issue.
Members of the University of Kentucky Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) will be participating in the Unite2FightParalysis organization’s 17th annual Science & Advocacy Symposium. SCoBIRC Director John Gensel, Ph.D. and Sasha Rabchevsky, Ph.D., will be representing UK at the conference being held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Three Sanders-Brown Center on Aging researchers are the first at the University of Kentucky to receive backing from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. CureAlz is a non-profit organization dedicated to funding research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing, or reversing Alzheimer’s disease. Every bit of donations received by the organization goes towards research with around 600 grants given out to date.