Medicine

Medicine

Henry Stifel and his wife, Mary

New York man with paralysis stands 39 years after injury thanks to UofL’s spinal...

Nearly four decades after Henry Stifel’s spinal cord injury – and after following spinal cord injury research as a philanthropist for more than three...
Shannon Strader, D.O.

UofL medical resident draws on personal experience to help college students facing illness and...

When she was growing up, Shannon Strader experienced constant pain and nausea. When she was a senior in high school, she was diagnosed with...
John Pierce Wise Sr.

UofL scientist receives $6.7 million to learn how metals cause lung cancer

For nearly three decades, John Pierce Wise Sr. has investigated the connection between exposure to metals and cancer, working both in the lab and...
John Pierce Wise Sr.

UofL scientist receives $6.7 million to learn how metals cause lung cancer Grant funds...

For nearly three decades, John Pierce Wise Sr. has investigated the connection between exposure to metals and cancer, working both in the lab and...
COVID-19.

UofL researchers advocate clinical trials for CBD in COVID-19 treatment

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from several institutions headed by the University of Chicago and including the University of Louisville has found evidence that...
Mohamed Lab researchers in the UofL Institute of Molecular Cardiology, (l. to r.) Qinghui Ou, Xian-Liang Tang, Tamer Mohamed, AbouBakr Salama and Riham Abouleisa

UofL researchers develop new gene therapy to regenerate heart cells Therapy is ready for...

A University of Louisville research team has refined a process in which specific genes administered to heart muscle cells stimulate the cells to divide,...
COVID-19.

Researchers recommend human clinical trials for CBD to prevent COVID-19 based on promising data

A new study shows that an FDA-approved, pharmaceutical-grade formulation of CBD has an antiviral effect and significant negative association with COVID infection.  Researchers warn that...
UofL engineering researcher Cindy Harnett, left, with Alli Truttmann of Wicked Sheets

UofL selects projects for COVID-19 tech accelerator Applications now open for next project selection...

A University of Louisville program aimed at solving the long-term health, economic and societal problems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has selected its first...
The Healthful City Design Studio is a temporary pop-up located in the Republic Building at 429 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd.

UofL’s pop-up Urban Design Studio created to position Louisville for the future

The design of cities directly affects human and environmental health, and with health and ecological disasters unfolding around the globe seemingly daily, urgency is...
Luke Madson on a specially designed pediatric treadmill for therapy at the Kosair Charities Center for Pediatric Neurorecovery

Kosair Charities grants $6.4 million to UofL for children’s health programs

The Kosair Charities Center for Pediatric NeuroRecovery at the University of Louisville brings about recovery for children with spinal cord injuries through therapies developed...