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Welcome from the Chair

The UK College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience is a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary, and translational environment that provides research and training opportunities ranging from molecular and cellular neurobiology to neuroimaging, from understanding basic neuroscience mechanisms to developing and testing treatments of central nervous system (CNS) disorders due to aging, injury, and disease.

Our world-class team of scientists, with more than fifteen million dollars a year in grants and contracts, conducts biomedical research in Alzheimer's disease, addiction, epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, metabolism, Parkinson's disease, stroke, and spinal cord and brain injury and repair.

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Neuroscience

Education

Neuroscience is proud to be one of the few graduate programs at UK to be ranked within the top 20 programs at publicly funded universities nationwide (based on NIH research dollars awarded).

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Neuroscience Research

Check out the amazing research led by our faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.

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Undergraduate Research

We offer credit-earning research opportunities for undergraduate students.

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Wellness

Check out the College of Medicine well-being resources.

S.T.A.R.T.

Stem Through Authentic Research Training

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