The University of Kentucky is to receive millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health for a new center that looks at the links between obesity and cancer.
Details will be announced at 11 a.m., according to university officials. The announcement is to be live-streamed at youtu.be/Di2HstXq0s4.
Among those on hand will be Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, who is Senate majority leader, and U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington; UK Markey Cancer Center director Mark Evers; UK executive vice president for health affairs Dr. Michael Karpf; and UK President Eli Capilouto.