Medicine

Medicine

Norton Healthcare, UofL Physicians – Pediatrics, UofL School of Medicine combine forces to strengthen...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Norton Healthcare, UofL Physicians – Pediatrics and the University of Louisville School of Medicine today announced they have officially signed a...
Louisville resident Thomas E. Dunbar has pledged $1 million to the University of Louisville to create a specialized center to provide chimeric antigen receptor positive T (CAR T) cell therapies to patients at the UofL James Graham Brown Cancer Center and other centers in Kentucky and the Midwest.

UofL secures $1 million donation to bring more advanced immunotherapy treatment to cancer patients

Cancer patients in Louisville, in Kentucky and throughout the region soon will have access to some of the most advanced immunotherapy treatments available. Louisville...
Tom Dunbar with his son, Evan

Dunbar CAR T-Cell Program to bring more advanced immunotherapy treatment to cancer patients in...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Cancer patients in Louisville, in Kentucky and throughout the region soon will have access to some of the most advanced immunotherapy...
Tree ready for planting for the Green Heart Project

UofL’s Green Heart Project’s large-scale tree planting underway in Louisville

A first-of-its-kind study of the effects of plants on human health, the Green Heart Project, is beginning large-scale planting of trees and shrubs in...
Tree ready for planting for the Green Heart Project

Green Heart Project begins planting 8,000 trees and shrubs in South Louisville to study...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A first-of-its-kind study of the effects of plants on human health, the Green Heart Project, is beginning large-scale planting of trees...
millennials

UofL research warns millennials of hepatitis C risk

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has skipped a generation and has become a predominantly millennial disease, according to research by John Myers, PhD, UofL Professor of...

UofL research warns millennials of hepatitis C

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has skipped a generation and become a predominantly millennial disease, according to research by John Myers, Ph.D., UofL Professor of Pediatrics.  Myers...
Michael Menze, Ph.D.

Dried sea monkeys and frozen wood frogs – Beer with a Scientist Oct. 16

Some animals have developed the ability to survive in extreme conditions such being frozen, drying or with a complete lack of oxygen. At this month’s...
Tommy Jr., Mary Jane and Alex Gift

Drive Out Cancer golf scramble to help bone marrow transplant patients at UofL Brown...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For six years, Tommy Gift Jr. and his brother, Alex Gift, have been helping cancer patients at the University of Louisville’s...
iVAS illustration courtesy NuPulseCV, Inc.

UofL cardiovascular surgeon implants two patients with new heart-support device at Jewish Hospital

University of Louisville heart transplant surgeon Mark Slaughter, MD, has implanted two patients with an investigational device, the intravascular ventricular assist system (iVAS), at...