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Markey Receives $6.25 Million to Study Deadly Blood and Bone Marrow Disease
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has received more than $6 million to study a deadly blood and bone marrow disease often caused by chemotherapy or radiation treatments. A $5 million grant from the Edward P. Evans Foundation, along with a $1.25 million donor gift, will fund research of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). At UK, principal investigator Gary Van Zant and co-principal investigators Subbarao Bondada and Daret St. Clair lead the three research labs funded. The Cincinnati lab will be led by Hartmut Geiger and the Arkansas lab will have two co-principal investigators, Martin Hauer-Jensen and Daohong Zhou. The three medical centers have collaborated on MDS research in the past.

Staying Sharp Program Offers Free Advice on Healthy Brain Aging
Wondering how to keep your brain sharp as you age? Interested in how memory works and what you can do to keep yours healthy? The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, in conjunction with the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, will host "Staying Sharp: Ask the Experts About Keeping Your Brain Young", a free discussion and question and answer session on the aging brain, memory, and brain health issues. The event is free and open to the public, although registration is required. "Staying Sharp" will take place on Saturday, June 2, 2012, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Hyatt Regency at Lexington Center, 401 West High Street, Lexington. To register, participants should call 1-800-65-BRAIN (1-800-652-7246).

UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health Presents Research Projects at National Meeting
Kentucky was well-represented at the nation’s largest rural health conference held by the National Rural Health Association in Denver on April 17-20. Fran Feltner, director of the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) and others from the CERH were selected to make presentations at the 35th annual conference. Feltner and employees of the Kentucky Homeplace Program presented information about the Improving Diabetes Outcomes (I DO) study. More than 600 Kentuckians have participated in I DO, an initiative that promotes a series of nurse-led diabetes self-management education sessions complimented by community health workers (CHW). The one-year study, which began last summer, was made possible by a grant from the Anthem Foundation and focuses on improved blood glucose control through healthy lifestyle choices including medication adherence, improved nutrition, and increased physical activity.

Early Diagnosis Crucial for Younger-Onset Alzheimers
Younger-onset (or early-onset) Alzheimer’s disease refers to Alzheimer’s disease in people younger than 65. It has been in the news lately: Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, 59, recently stepped down from her job due to Alzheimer’s. Early-onset Alzheimer’s can affect people as young as their 40s. Because it strikes people in the prime of life, the early-onset form of the disease brings with it extra complications. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, as many as 5 percent of Alzheimer’s cases in the United States are early-onset. The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging provides free memory screenings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month at the UK HealthCare Polk-Dalton Clinic, 217 Elm Tree Lane, Lexington. No appointment is required.

Annual Research Day Helps Move Diabetes from Laboratory to Clinical Care
Physicians and scientists from across the nation will gather at the University of Kentucky on May 14 to discuss the latest trends and current findings in obesity and diabetes research at the Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day. The event, hosted by the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center and the UK Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, will feature research poster presentations and nationally prominent physician-scientists discussing the latest trends and current findings in obesity and diabetes research.

UK Researcher Has a Passion for Solving Puzzles
Much has been written about Jayakrishna Ambati since he came to the University of Kentucky in 2001 to begin a career in medicine and research. He is well-known in medical and scientific communities, both nationally and internationally, for his work on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of untreatable blindness that affects hundreds of thousands of people each year. Ambati, professor of Physiology and professor and vice-chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the UK College of Medicine, and his team in the Ambati Lab have made major breakthrough discoveries that continually influence and reshape the scientific paradigm in AMD research. The studies have been published in the most prestigious scientific journals such as Nature, Cell, Nature Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Stanton Named Spokesperson of the Year by Emergency Medicine Group
Dr. Ryan A. Stanton, director of emergency medicine at UK HealthCares Good Samaritan Hospital and assistant professor of emergency medicine in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has been named the 2012 Spokesperson of the Year by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). He is one of four emergency medicine physicians who will be honored by the organization.

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Evans Foundation, along with a $1.25 million donor gift, will fund research of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). At UK, principal investigator Gary Van Zant and co-principal investigators Subbarao Bondada and Daret St. Clair lead the three research labs funded. The Cincinnati lab will be led by Hartmut Geiger and the Arkansas lab will have two co-principal investigators, Martin Hauer-Jensen and Daohong Zhou. The three medical centers have collaborated on MDS research in the past. Staying Sharp Program Offers Free Advice on Healthy Brain Aging Wondering how to keep your brain sharp as you age? Interested in how memory works and what you can do to keep yours healthy? The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, in conjunction with the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, will host "Staying Sharp: Ask the Experts About Keeping Your Brain Young", a free discussion and question and answer session on the aging brain, memory, and brain health issues. The event is free and open to the public, although registration is required. "Staying Sharp" will take place on Saturday, June 2, 2012, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Hyatt Regency at Lexington Center, 401 West High Street, Lexington. To register, participants should call 1-800-65-BRAIN (1-800-652-7246). UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health Presents Research Projects at National Meeting Kentucky was well-represented at the nation’s largest rural health conference held by the National Rural Health Association in Denver on April 17-20. Fran Feltner, director of the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) and others from the CERH were selected to make presentations at the 35th annual conference. Feltner and employees of the Kentucky Homeplace Program presented information about the Improving Diabetes Outcomes (I DO) study. More than 600 Kentuckians have participated in I DO, an initiative that promotes a series of nurse-led diabetes self-management education sessions complimented by community health workers (CHW). The one-year study, which began last summer, was made possible by a grant from the Anthem Foundation and focuses on improved blood glucose control through healthy lifestyle choices including medication adherence, improved nutrition, and increased physical activity. Early Diagnosis Crucial for Younger-Onset Alzheimers Younger-onset (or early-onset) Alzheimer’s disease refers to Alzheimer’s disease in people younger than 65. It has been in the news lately: Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, 59, recently stepped down from her job due to Alzheimer’s. Early-onset Alzheimer’s can affect people as young as their 40s. Because it strikes people in the prime of life, the early-onset form of the disease brings with it extra complications. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, as many as 5 percent of Alzheimer’s cases in the United States are early-onset. The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging provides free memory screenings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month at the UK HealthCare Polk-Dalton Clinic, 217 Elm Tree Lane, Lexington. No appointment is required. Annual Research Day Helps Move Diabetes from Laboratory to Clinical Care Physicians and scientists from across the nation will gather at the University of Kentucky on May 14 to discuss the latest trends and current findings in obesity and diabetes research at the Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Research Day. The event, hosted by the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center and the UK Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, will feature research poster presentations and nationally prominent physician-scientists discussing the latest trends and current findings in obesity and diabetes research. UK Researcher Has a Passion for Solving Puzzles Much has been written about Jayakrishna Ambati since he came to the University of Kentucky in 2001 to begin a career in medicine and research. He is well-known in medical and scientific communities, both nationally and internationally, for his work on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of untreatable blindness that affects hundreds of thousands of people each year. Ambati, professor of Physiology and professor and vice-chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the UK College of Medicine, and his team in the Ambati Lab have made major breakthrough discoveries that continually influence and reshape the scientific paradigm in AMD research. The studies have been published in the most prestigious scientific journals such as Nature, Cell, Nature Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Stanton Named Spokesperson of the Year by Emergency Medicine Group Dr. Ryan A. Stanton, director of emergency medicine at UK HealthCares Good Samaritan Hospital and assistant professor of emergency medicine in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has been named the 2012 Spokesperson of the Year by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). He is one of four emergency medicine physicians who will be honored by the organization.
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