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Cardiothoracic surgeons with UofL Health – Jewish Hospital and the University of Louisville performed the world’s first Aeson® bioprosthetic total artificial heart implantation in a female patient on Sept. 14, 2021. Photo by UofL Health.

First-in-world heart implant: Woman receives novel type of artificial heart at UofL Health –...

A cardiothoracic surgical team with UofL Health – Jewish Hospital and the University of Louisville has performed the world’s first Aeson® bioprosthetic total artificial...
Trees are planted in South Louisville for the UofL Green Heart Project, an ongoing assessment of the effects of neighborhood greenness on individual health

UofL researchers find more health benefits of living in a greener environment

Evidence is growing that living in areas of high greenness, surrounded by trees, shrubs and other vegetation, has beneficial effects on human health. Researchers...
Trees are planted in South Louisville for the UofL Green Heart Project, an ongoing assessment of the effects of neighborhood greenness on individual health

UofL researchers find more health benefits of living in a greener environment UofL Green...

Evidence is growing that living in areas of high greenness, surrounded by trees, shrubs and other vegetation, has beneficial effects on human health. Researchers...
Aeson® total artificial heart. Image courtesy CARMAT.

UofL cardiac surgery team at UofL Health – Jewish Hospital second in U.S. to...

A University of Louisville cardiac surgery team at UofL Health - Jewish Hospital is the second in the United States to implant a new...
Glasgow Family Medicine Residency program 2021 graduates, left to right, Dillon Pender, Lauren Hansen, Laura Inabnitt and Emily Marsh.

UofL School of Medicine residency program fuels physician supply for smaller communities, while offering...

While Elizabethtown, Kentucky, native Dillon Pender was a medical student at the University of Louisville, he realized that life and medical practice in an...
UofL astrosurgery team members George Pantalos, bioengineering student Sienna Shacklette, Tommy Roussel and bioengineering student Clara Jones in front of the Virgin Galactic VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Photo courtesy Virgin Galactic.

UofL astrosurgery device tested in space aboard Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

An invention developed by UofL’s astrosurgery team made its first trip to space for testing in weightlessness as a payload aboard a suborbital space...
UofL astrosurgery team members George Pantalos, bioengineering student Sienna Shacklette, Tommy Roussel and bioengineering student Clara Jones in front of the Virgin Galactic VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Photo courtesy Virgin Galactic.

UofL astrosurgery device tested in space aboard Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

EDITOR’S NOTE: See video of the tests performed during the flight. See photos of the researchers. LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An invention developed by UofL’s astrosurgery team...
Corey Watson, Ph.D., Melissa Smith, Ph.D., and Oscar Rodriguez, Ph.D., with the Pacific Biosciences Sequel IIe DNA sequencing system, housed in the University of Louisville Sequencing Technology Center

UofL researchers lead call to increase genetic diversity in immunogenomics

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Historically, most large-scale immunogenomic studies – those exploring the association between genes and disease – were conducted with a bias toward...
Kerri Remmel, MD, PhD

UofL, UK and Kentucky Department for Public Health receive CDC grant to improve stroke...

The University of Louisville, UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Department for Public Health’s Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program (KHDSP) and other state partners have been awarded...
Craig McClain, M.D., right, with Matthew Cave, M.D., liver researcher and H&T COBRE core director, center, and Jamie Young, Ph.D., using equipment known as the NanoDrop instrument to analyze RNA and DNA samples.

UofL receives $11.3 million from NIH for liver research center

The University of Louisville Hepatobiology and Toxicology Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) has received $11.3 million in funding from the National Institutes of...