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March 14, 2022

UofL School of Dentistry among the top schools for NIH research funding

According to the latest data from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, the University of Louisville School of Dentistry is among the top dental schools in the nation for National Institutes of Health research funding. ULSD is now ranked 13th in the United States, with total NIH awards of $5.9 million in 2021. The...
Two student officers of the American Association for Women Dentists talk with P. Gay Baughman.
March 9, 2022

How one UofL dental alumna helped break the school’s gender mold in the 1970s

By Julie Heflin Looking at the UofL School of Dentistry today, you’ll see an equal mix of men and women, but that hasn’t always been the case. In the late 1970s, nearly all dental students and faculty were male. P. Gay Baughman ’81 recalls how she and other women were treated differently than male students. ...
Che Rhodes work of four black glassblown pieces
March 3, 2022

Renowned UofL glass artist has piece added to Smithsonian

Glassblower artist Ché Rhodes, University of Louisville associate professor and head of the glass department in the Hite Institute of Art and Design, has a piece that has been added to the permanent collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The untitled artwork will be included in the museum’s upcoming exhibit, This Present Moment: Crafting...
Karlynn BrintzenhofeSzoc
February 28, 2022

Losing her mom to cancer at a young age led UofL’s new endowed chair to a career in oncology social work

By Julie Heflin Preparing more social work students with knowledge to help their future clients and patients manage chronic or life-limiting diseases is part of Karlynn BrintzenhofeSzoc’s vision. She is the new Dr. Renato LaRocca Endowed Chair in Oncology Social Work at the Kent School of Social Work and Family Science. She replaces Karen Kayser who served as the...
Study authors Anne Geller, left, and Jun Yan
February 24, 2022

UofL researchers used trained immunity to reduce tumor activity in pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, with a five-year survival rate of just 10% for patients diagnosed with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most common type. Further, one promising area of cancer treatment, immunotherapy, has not provided benefit for pancreatic cancer patients. University of Louisville researchers recently have shown that beta-glucan, a natural...
Jaimin Trivedi, assistant professor and director of clinical research and bioinformatics in the UofL Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
February 22, 2022

UofL study shows heart transplant access, outcomes for Black patients improved significantly since 1987

By Betty Coffman To better understand the status of access to heart transplants for adult Black and white patients and those of other races, researchers at UofL analyzed data for heart transplants from 1987 to 2019, comparing percentages of patients from each racial group who were placed on the transplant list and those actually transplanted. They...
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