On July 13, 2022 the Scholars@UK online portal (scholars.uky.edu) will be announced.

Vice President for Research Lisa Cassis has asked that you log into Scholars@UK, update your profile photo and add career-spanning content to make your profile accurate and complete. This may include research interests or a biographical statement. These additional data points will create a robust online profile of your accomplishments, interests, and, most importantly, your research and scholarship. 

Sharing several important resources for you as you work with your profile.

• Login Information: At https://scholars.uky.edu, there are two places to log in. At the top “LOGIN & Help” or at the bottom “Log in to Pure.” Here you can find a Quick Start Guide.

• 401 or 404 Unauthorized Error: If you get this error message, it is most likely you are trying to access Scholars@UK from off campus and/or are not on VPN from a remote location. The site is currently accessible only from the campus network, or via VPN when remote. On July 13 that limitation will go away. If you ARE on the campus network and still get this error, please email scholars@uky.edu with your specific IP address, and we will investigate. 

• Scholarly Work & Output: Not all of your scholarly output will currently be on your profile. It includes publications indexed in the SCOPUS database, but many researchers will have output that is not indexed by that database. As a result, you will need to load additional content via the many options (automatic through Web of Science, PubMed, and others, or manually if the publications or output are not indexed in large global databases). Click here for instructions.

• Training: Our help page contains a lot of information, but we also hold training sessions via zoom. Please see our schedule

• Profile Data: When you log in to your profile and make edits some of the information about your positions here at UK, affiliations and degrees are pulled from the UK Faculty Database. If they are inaccurate, those records will need to be updated in the internal database. Please contact your department administrator or faculty affairs office to make those underlying database corrections. Note: Dates of employment for positions here at UK will be incorrect when you are logged in and working with your metadata. We know this. They are hardcoded in order to have positions listed on your profile in a particular order. You can ignore this. They are not public or viewed beyond you when logged in and are NOT used for any reporting. 

• Synced Data: Some data fields within your profile meta data are synced with internal databases such as the faculty database. These fields cannot be edited if they include this symbol (below).

If you have additional questions or issues, email scholars@uky.edu 

Letters of Intent are due Monday, July 11, 2022 by 8AM

The CCTS KL2 Career Development Program is a research training and funding opportunity for junior faculty to foster a career in clinical/translational research. The program requires 75% protected time for research/career development and provides annual salary support up to a maximum of $110,000 per year plus benefits for the required effort. An additional $37,500 in funds will be provided for research personnel, supplies, materials for course work ($35,000), and travel ($2,500) to present at appropriate research conferences, as they pertain to the proposed research and career development. Support will be provided for up to two years, contingent upon effective career development throughout the period of support. 

Eligibility: Candidates for these positions must have a terminal professional degree, such as an MD, DMD, RN/PhD, PharmD, or PhD. Individuals who were, or currently are the Principal Investigator (PI) on NIH R01, R29, P01, K01, K08, K22 and K23 awards (or equivalent) are not eligible. Candidates must have a faculty appointment and commit 75% effort to research and career development (certain surgical subspecialties may require 50% effort to maintain skill levels). 

Sharing a new cycle of funding opportunities for pilot projects in cancer research under an Institutional Research Grant to the University of Kentucky from the American Cancer Society. This grant is awarded to the University to provide pilot funds for the initiation of promising new cancer research projects led by junior faculty members so they can obtain preliminary results to enable them to compete successfully for national research grants. Junior faculty must be at the level of Assistant Professors, or their equivalent, and not currently receiving substantial national funding.

Applications are due August 10, 2022, at 5 p.m. Individual allocations under the Institutional Research Grant may be made up to a maximum of $30,000. 

Access the following links for the application form and guidelines. Questions and/or completed applications should be submitted to J. Bybee at jennifer.bybee@uky.edu .

All applications will be peer-reviewed by a multidisciplinary institutional research review committee. Applicants’ abstracts and biosketches will be shared with all review committee members. Both the relationship to cancer and high scientific merit will be important considerations in the review process.

The start date for applications in this cycle is December 01, 2022.

All studies must be compliant for all regulatory entities (IRB, IACUC, IBC) prior to the start date.

Do you have an idea or a product to improve patient care or enhance human health?

KYNETIC provides funding to bring groundbreaking health-related innovations to the marketplace.

Faculty, staff, trainees, and students are encouraged to apply!

Pre-Application Deadline: July 25, 2022 at 5pm ET

Funded by the NIH, KYNETIC offers entrepreneurial education and proof-of-concept/product development grants to accelerate the translation of academic innovations into biomedical products by investigators throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. KYNETIC is led by the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, and Kentucky Commercialization Ventures (KCV).

Click for funding request for applications details.

Notice Number: NOT-MD-22-022

Release Date: June 30, 2022

First Available Due Date: July 31, 2022

Expiration Date: August 01, 2022

Related Announcements: PA-20-272 - Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional)

Issued by National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Purpose: NIMHD is soliciting supplements to active NIMHD grants and cooperative agreements to support research on HIV/AIDS in NIH-designated populations that experience health disparities, including Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, underserved rural populations, and sexual and gender minorities.