Tag: federal grants
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Clinic in Greenup will offer free ovarian cancer screenings for Northeast Ky. women
Women in Northeastern Kentucky will be able to receive free ovarian cancer screenings thanks to funding that will set up a clinic in Greenup County. The clinic is intended for...
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U of L, Frazier get $2.2 million for spinal treatment, research
The Frazier Rehab Institute and the University of Louisville have received $2.2 million for spinal cord research and treatment. The grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education, is one...
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Feds give Ky. $3 million to hold health insurers accountable
Kentucky will receive more than $3.2 million in federal grants to help state officials track health-insurance premium increases and make insurers more accountable. The funds are part of guidelines set...
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U of L prof earns $11.8 million grant renewal; has helped glean $100 million in federal grants in 17 years
A University of Louisville researcher has been awarded a $12.8 million grant to keep his adult stem cell project going. The funds are from the National Institutes of Health and...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky receives $1 million grant in addition to $2 million already being used for matching grants
A federal agency has given the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky $1 million, on top of an earlier $2 million, to make matching grants aimed at addressing the state’s health...
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Oral health grant for 25,000 Appalachian children should be beginning of statewide effort, Al Smith says
In an op-ed piece, veteran Kentucky journalist Al Smith praised the recent announcement that 25,000 Eastern Kentucky children in 16 counties will receive preventive dental care this school year. The...
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UK finally wins $20 million grant to translate medical research into action at the bedside and in the field; now ‘a member of the club’
The University of Kentucky announced Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health had awarded it $20 million over five years to help move research discoveries from the laboratory to the...
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Federal grant will help build assisted-living and hospice facility in Maysville
Gov. Steve Beshear presented a $800,000 community development block grant (federal money administered by the states) for the construction of a Maysville assisted-living facility and hospice inpatient facility Friday, The Ledger Independent...