Medicine

Medicine

Donghoon Chung, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the UofL Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Brain-penetrating drug candidate effective against deadly encephalitis viruses

University of Louisville researcher Donghoon Chung and collaborators have designed, synthesized and tested a new antiviral compound and shown it to be highly effective against...
Delores Gordon Alleyne

New film recounts story of UofL’s first Black female graduate in medicine

More than a decade before she became the first Black female student in the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Delores Gordon Alleyne set...
UofL medical student opens letter revealing her residency match.

UofL medical students experience a day of joy on Match Day 2023

March Madness isn't only about basketball. March 17 was a day of joy and excitement as more than 120 fourth-year UofL medical students opened their...
Natasha DeJarnett

Q&A: UofL environmental health researcher on leave to serve the White House

Natasha DeJarnett, assistant professor of medicine and researcher with the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, is spending a year away from UofL to devote...
Shorye Durrett, MD

UofL Women’s History: Shorye Durrett

A passion for ophthalmology began at a young age for the University of Louisville’s assistant dean for medical student affairs, Shorye Durrett. When she...
raiseRED participants holding up numbers to reveal the total raised, $551,954.66.

raiseRED brings in more than $550,000

To see and hear what raiseRED is all about, check out the video here. UofL’s largest student-run philanthropy once again hit it out of...
Central High School juniors in the Pre-Medical Magnet Program received white coats at the UofL School of Medicine on Feb. 26.

Central High School students in Pre-Medical Magnet Program receive white coats at UofL

What’s normally a rite of passage for medical students has become a symbol of achievement for 33 Central High School juniors who are one...
students dancing at raisered

raiseRED celebrates 10th anniversary Feb. 24-25

One ballroom. Eighteen hours. Hundreds of dancing students. These are the ingredients that make up raiseRED, the University of Louisville’s largest student-run philanthropy that has...
Laura Dixon at the summit of Mount Meru in Tanzania in February 2022. Dixon will tackle Mount Kilimanjaro in March.

Climbing Kilimanjaro to beat Huntington’s Disease

Laura Dixon is ready to climb a mountain to benefit people with a rare, inherited neurological disease. The University of Louisville staff member and alumna...
Heart slices in the physiological biomimetic culture system

UofL technology that could speed medical innovation finds commercial partner

A University of Louisville research-born invention that could spur new medicines by extending the usable life of heart tissue from one day to 12...