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Medicine

Diagram showing levels of neutrophil immune cells (red dots) in a healthy donor, a patient with moderate COVID-19 and a patient with severe COVID-19. Data analysis by Corey T. Watson, Ph.D., David Tieri, Ph.D., and M.D./Ph.D. student Anne Geller.

UofL immunologist discovers biomarker warning of cellular crisis that could cause death in COVID-19...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jun Yan, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery and microbiology and immunology at the University of Louisville, led a team of researchers...
Joy Hart, Ph.D., professor in the UofL Department of Communication and member of the UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute

UofL researchers included in nearly $17 million invested to fast-track studies on health impacts...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The American Heart Association is investing nearly $17 million to fund a two-year research initiative, ENACT (End Nicotine Addiction in Children...
Joe D’Ambrosio, director of behavioral health at the UofL Trager Institute/Republic Bank Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic

UofL Trager Institute poised to expand mental health support

A new classification as a Behavioral Health Service Organization will allow the UofL Trager Institute, home of the Republic Bank Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic,...
Joe D’Ambrosio, director of behavioral health at the UofL Trager Institute/Republic Bank Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic

UofL Trager Institute poised to expand mental health support

A new classification as a Behavioral Health Service Organization will allow the UofL Trager Institute, home of the Republic Bank Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic,...
COVID-19.

UofL coronavirus-fighting tech in development with California biomedical company

A promising University of Louisville technology believed to block the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells now has a commercial partner. The California biomedical...

Google’s trends: UofL researcher using internet searches to map the spread of COVID-19

When they’re feeling sick, many people turn to the Internet. They Google their symptoms — headache, chest pain, shortness of breath — hoping to...
COVID-19 testing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Mandy Foster, via public domain)

COVID-19 antibody initiative receives $1.5 million to expand testing, launch ‘virus radar’ Gift from...

The Co-Immunity Project, a groundbreaking collaboration to track and curb COVID-19 in Kentucky, has received $1.5 million from the James Graham Brown Foundation, as...

Groundbreaking COVID-19 antibody initiative receives $1.5 million to expand testing, launch “virus radar” Gift...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.  – The Co-Immunity Project, a groundbreaking collaboration to track and curb COVID-19 in Kentucky, has received $1.5 million from the James Graham...

UofL researcher using internet searches to map the spread of COVID-19

When they’re feeling sick, many people turn to the internet. They Google their symptoms — headache, chest pain, shortness of breath — hoping to...
Heart slices in the physiological biomimetic culture system

UofL receives $3.8M to test new gene therapy for heart attacks

When someone has a heart attack, it causes muscle cells in their heart to die, and the heart cannot regenerate these cells. Researchers at...