Local Economy
Bucks for Brains faculty are helping Kentucky businesses, consumers and workers by:
- Creating technology-based jobs and expanding Kentucky's knowledge economy
- Helping Kentucky companies improve their effectiveness in competitive markets
- Developing cost effective ways to get products to consumers through improved logistics and supply-chain management
- Keeping abreast of new developments in leadership, intellectual property law and health policy
- Providing expertise in emerging fields such as bioengineering, nanotechnology, proteomics and molecular medicine
Kentucky's Youth
Bucks for Brains researchers are finding new ways to help Kentucky's children by:
- Helping health care providers recognize child abuse
- Understanding how children learn and inventing new methods of teaching
- Seeking innovative ways to enhance development of our communities
- Decreasing the negative impact of tobacco-based diseases
- Improving the treatment of pediatric sleep disorders and diabetes
- Developing pediatric heart devices
- Finding the cause of pediatric eye tumors
For all of us
Bucks for Brains researchers and faculty are improving health care of Kentucky's citizens by:
- Finding new treatments for spinal cord injury
- Developing more new cancer drugs than any other research center in the country
- Inventing new devices and therapies to treat heart disease and repair congenital heart defects
- Helping health care providers better serve our aging population
- Developing new vaccines that protect against emerging diseases with fewer side effects
- Creating and testing new therapies for saving people's sight from the ravages of eye disease
- Understanding the relationship between oral health and overall health
- Discovering the links between genetic factors and environmental exposures that lead to disease