University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY·Public·Medical school
34 labs on PI Pages. It spends $528M a year on research and awards 319 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 35,216: 25,088 undergraduates, 10,128 graduate
- Postdocs
- 223
- Faculty
- 1,710 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
YuMing Zhang
Engineering
Infer compact descriptions of molten weld-pool behavior from high-speed sensor data using dynamic variational autoencoders and deep Bayesian filtering, neural methods that extract and track hidden states amid noise.
Robert Grossman
Chemistry
Define the scope of 1,2-diamination by testing 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of azimines, a barely studied class of three-nitrogen dipoles, with both electron-poor and electron-neutral alkenes to form substituted 1,2,3-triazolidines.
Yekaterina Zaytseva
Medicine & Clinical Research
Determine whether FASN overproduction in colorectal cancer cells, through the exosomes they release, turns liver hepatic stellate cells into tumor-supporting fibroblasts, using genetic changes and the FASN inhibitor TVB-2640.
Daniel Lee
Neuroscience
Test how the arginine sensor CASTOR1, a brake on the growth regulator mTORC1, improves lysosome function, repair and clearance of protein clumps when cell models are stressed by tau or lysosome-damaging agents.
Congqing Wu
Medicine & Clinical Research
Determine how NINJ1 in myeloid immune cells such as macrophages contributes to thrombosis. NINJ1 is the protein that actively ruptures the cell membrane during pyroptosis, an inflammatory form of cell death.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.