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Medicine

Mini grants make life work Funding helps spread Cardinal spirt of service into communities

Just like a small gesture can make a difference in someone’s day, even the smallest grant can spur the biggest impact in community lives. In...
Group of students participating in the Bluegrass Biodesign program

UofL launches new program aimed at helping biomedical students innovate

The University of Louisville has launched a new entrepreneurship program aimed at helping students develop innovations that save and improve lives. The Bluegrass Biodesign program...
Rochelle Holm, UofL associate professor in the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, and Petros Chigwechokha, head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Malawi University of Science and Technology, received a shipment of medical and research supplies thanks to SOS International in Louisville.

Helping hands across the globe UofL and SOS International deliver needed medical and research...

A landlocked country in southeastern Africa, Malawi faces significant health care challenges, which are made worse by difficulty in obtaining medical equipment and supplies. To...
Oluwaferanmi Okanlami was the health equity keynote speaker at Research!Louisville.

Research!Louisville speaker emphasizes that disability does not mean inability Oluwaferanmi Okanlami spotlights need for...

What do we not know about what we are doing for individuals with a disability? Professor Oluwaferanmi Okanlami encouraged attendees to ask that question at...
UofL participants in the 2024 Kentuckiana Heart Walk

UofL boosts community engagement efforts through annual Heart Walk

Teams from the University of Louisville and UofL Health were part of a record-breaking turnout of 34 teams, 420 walkers, and more than $40,000 raised...
Ben Lovely looks through a fishtank with swimming zebrafish.

UofL researchers studying specific causes of fetal alcohol syndrome

University of Louisville researchers have secured $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how genetics may increase the risk of Fetal...
UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center

Gibbs Foundation invests $3 million with UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center

The University of Louisville, UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center and the Gibbs Foundation will continue their partnership in finding a cure for cancer...
Trees planted along Watterson Expressway/Interstate 264 in Louisville, KY for the Green Heart Louisville Project. Photo by Mike Wilkinson for The Nature Conservancy.

Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute awarded $11 million in new grants

Researchers in the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute have secured $11.27 million in new grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department...
A residential area showing trees and shrubs added for the Green Heart Louisville Project. Photo credit: Mike Wilkinson for The Nature Conservancy.

UofL Green Heart Project: residents’ inflammation lower after trees added to neighborhoods Inflammation is...

The University of Louisville’s groundbreaking Green Heart Louisville Project has found that people living in neighborhoods where the number of trees and shrubs was...
Paul Brown (left), and Andrea Ballinger, second-year UofL medical students, represented UofL at the 2024 Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program in July. This summer, Brown and Ballinger conducted a study to help decrease health disparities in heart care.

UofL medical students address heart health disparities in summer research

UofL medical students Paul Brown and Andrea Ballinger conducted a study to decrease health disparities for Black patients by helping educate physicians about potential...