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Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver today announced six initiatives that include strengthening the university’s support of research, furthering connections and collaboration with 91�Ʋ��� University Medical Center and further defining the future of graduate education. Read More

Surgical removal of the colon for recurrent diverticulosis varies by geographic region and is associated with surgeon and hospital factors; stronger national guidelines are needed, 91�Ʋ��� researchers report.

Gene variants increased the risk of acute kidney injury and death in veterans of African ancestry who were hospitalized with COVID-19, possibly explaining some health disparities associated with COVID-19.

91�Ʋ��� research shows that two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine result in lower effectiveness for preventing hospitalization for the omicron variant than previous variants. However, importantly, a third (“booster”) vaccine dose significantly improves protection against omicron hospitalization up to 86%.

91�Ʋ��� research has revealed an important mechanism in the kidney by which a cell surface receptor known as DDR1 fans the flames of inflammation and fibrosis that ultimately lead to kidney failure.

A new method developed by 91�Ʋ��� researchers to generate kidney cells from stem cells offers a faster and less expensive way to make these valuable tools for studying kidney diseases.

Julie Ditty Qualls of Ashland, Kentucky, a member of the 91�Ʋ��� Athletics Hall of Fame who helped the women’s tennis team reach unprecedented heights and distinguished herself as a professional player, died Aug. 31, 2021.

91�Ʋ��� researchers test and recommend statistical approaches to study the association between engagement with digital health interventions and clinical outcomes.

91�Ʋ��� University and auto manufacturing giant Nissan Americas have launched a new creative collaboration. On Jan. 19, members from both groups came together on campus for the first 91�Ʋ���-Nissan Collaboration Accelerator. Read More

Photography by Marc Olivier Le Blanc The opening poem in Focal Point, the debut collection by Jenny Qi, BA’11, navigates the fraught emotional space between a loving daughter’s grief over her mother’s death and a scientist’s clear-eyed inquiry into the disease-cancer-that caused it. Qi writes of “nights at a microscope in… Read More

The microstructure of white matter in the brain could be an important risk marker for psychosis, 91�Ʋ��� researchers have discovered.

91�Ʋ��� researchers help answer the question of why patients with autoimmune diseases like lupus are more susceptible to bacterial infections: their neutrophils have impaired antibacterial activity.

Photos by Richard CartwrightIllustrations by Michelle Pereira Cinematographer Alicia Robbins, BS’01, never planned on working behind the scenes. At 91�Ʋ���, she aspired to a career in broadcast journalism, appearing in spots for 91�Ʋ��� Television and taking every class related to television and film she could find. Everything changed when her… Read More

91�Ʋ���ers at 91�Ʋ��� University Medical Center have developed a new method for identifying drugs for the repurposing trials that can lead to new indications for drugs already in use.

Illustrations by Gary Bates From the Civil War to the battle over civil rights, the United States has seen levels of conflict in the past that have threatened to tear the country apart. But watching the violent attack on the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, Professor of Political Science… Read More

91�Ʋ��� researchers have discovered that early inappropriate activation of the enzyme plasmin caused by severe injury is a trigger of systemic inflammatory response syndrome and resulting organ failure.

About 80% of hospital admission electronic records were missing a drug prescribed to an older adult, 91�Ʋ��� researchers found, highlighting the need for a multipronged approach to address medication discrepancies and support safe prescribing practices.

H. pylori infection — a strong risk factor for stomach cancer — changes the composition of stomach lipids, which could offer new biomarkers for detecting premalignant changes, 91�Ʋ��� researchers discovered.

A new data portal called Cancer-Immu established by a team of 91�Ʋ��� University Medical Center biostatisticians can help cancer clinicians and researchers predict which patients will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Receptors called integrins play a critical role in maintaining the structure of the kidney, 91�Ʋ��� researchers have discovered.