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a group of individuals smiling at a camera inside a commercial kitchen.

A seat at the table

August 18, 2026

Inside the Republic Bank Foundation Trager Institute Culinary Medicine Teaching Kitchen, medical students stood alongside an oncologist, surgeon, scientist and registered dieticians – not discussing treatment plans or clinical trials but gathering

Dr. Banrida Wahlang, Esther Bolatimi, and Dr. Yuan Hua in a lab, wearing white coats, discussing data at a computer. Esther…

Building stronger science by studying sex differences in environmental health research

March 16, 2026

Imagine a chemical that never dies; it simply weaves in and out of the human anatomy and the natural world.

Reexamining a rare threat

February 4, 2026

When a rare and aggressive liver tumor began appearing in a Kentucky community, researchers at the University of Louisville School of Medicine recognized a repeating pattern from the city’s own history, and an opportunity to once again push the bo