Medicine

Medicine

UofL doctors Jeffrey Bumpous, interim dean of the UofL School of Medicine, Edward Miller and Tanya Franklin (back row, l. to r.) placed white coats on the shoulders of Central High School juniors participating in the Pre-Medical Magnet Program. UofL Health photo.

Central High School students in pre-medical magnet program receive white coats Students shadow UofL...

What’s normally a rite of passage for medical students has become a symbol of achievement for 30 Central High School juniors who are one...
UofL researchers are working to better understand how pollutants and other factors affect heart health. UofL illustration.

UofL scientists gain $11.6 million to learn how chemical exposures affect heart health Envirome...

Heart disease is the number one cause of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, but scientists still do not understand all the...
Spinal cord therapy research participant Jeff Marquis stands during therapy. Photo by Jessica Ebelhar.

UofL researchers win $1M to advance spinal cord injury technology

University of Louisville researchers and their collaborators have won a Phase 2 prize in a $9.8 million National Institutes of Health innovation competition aimed...
James Cripps, the head of manufacturing at the UofL Brown Cancer, travels across the state to raise awareness of occupational cancer in firefighters.

Q&A: UofL researcher raising awareness of occupational cancer to firefighters James Cripps is an...

Firefighters take risks everyday, and many of the risks they face are not visible. James Cripps, who was a firefighter for nearly a decade...
UofL Health invested in the health of Bullitt County and the surrounding area with the opening of a full-service, inpatient hospital, UofL Health – South Hospital

UofL Health opens new hospital in Bullitt County

UofL Health celebrated the much-anticipated opening of UofL Health –South Hospital, in Bullitt County, Ky. on Monday, March 18. The $78-million acute care hospital opened...
Dawn Caster, associate professor and the co-director of research for the UofL Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

Kidney specialist encourages young women to make their careers in STEM fields

Pursuing medicine wasn’t always Dawn Caster’s plan for herself. She didn’t start college on the “pre-med” track. Instead, she obtained dual undergraduate degrees in...

UofL innovators selected for inaugural National Academy of Inventors honor

Four University of Louisville innovators have been selected by the prestigious National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for its 2024 class of Senior Members.  NAI Senior Members...
Clara Sears, assistant professor and researcher in UofL’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, is working to understand how exposure to pollutants before birth and in infancy affects sleep health in adolescence. UofL photo.

UofL researcher connecting pollution exposure and sleep health

Clara Sears is fascinated by sleep. Quality sleep is essential to support growth and development and many adolescents in the U.S. are not getting...
UofL celebrates Women's History Month 2024 by highlighting a few women at UofL who are pillars in STEM. Pictured: Top row L to R: Dawn Caster, Hunter Hayden and Christine Burgan. Bottom row L to R: Olfa Nasraoui, Gretel Monreal and Cheri Levinson

Women’s History Month: Pillars in STEM UofL News commemorates Women's History Month by highlighting...

Women at the University of Louisville are leading, discovering and making history throughout campus and beyond. During March, UofL is celebrating the contribution of...
Students embrace as part of the 2024 raiseRED celebration.video

raiseRED adds $516,000 to the fight against pediatric cancer

UofL students took to the dance floor to “Fight Like a Kid” for the 11th annual raiseRED dance marathon, coming out victorious by raising...