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Betty Coffman

Betty Coffman is a communications coordinator focused on research and innovation at UofL. A UofL alumna and Louisville native, she served as a writer and editor for local and national publications and as an account services coordinator and copywriter for marketing and design firms prior to joining UofL’s Office of Communications and Marketing.

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Brain-penetrating drug candidate effective against deadly encephalitis viruses

University of Louisville researcher Donghoon Chung and collaborators have designed, synthesized and tested a new antiviral compound and shown it to be highly effective against two types of encephalitis viruses that cause devastating illness in hum

New film recounts story of UofL’s first Black female graduate in medicine

More than a decade before she became the first Black female student in the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Delores Gordon Alleyne set her sights on becoming a doctor.

Q&A: UofL environmental health researcher on leave to serve the White House

Natasha DeJarnett, assistant professor of medicine and researcher with the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, is spending a year away from UofL to devote her skills to improving environmental justice for the federal government.