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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

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Education Programs
Pharmacology: PhD and undergrad minor tracks; Nutritional Sciences: master's and PhD tracks
33+
Faculty Members
Across our multidisciplinary and collaborative department
5+
Affiliated research centers and alliances
Top research areas include aging, cancer, cardiovascular issues, and diabetes

Welcome to the UK College of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences!

We are a unique unit, the only one of its kind in US academic institutions, with research and graduate training programs in pharmacology and nutritional sciences all within one basic science department. 

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Spotlights

From left to right: Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD andSimon J. Fisher, MD, PhD

Simon J. Fisher, MD, PhD, and Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD, awarded grant for diabetes research training

This grant will support their five-year project “Diabetes and ObesitY research training in kENtucky,” also known as DOYEN. DOYEN hopes to make bigger contributions for the health communities touched by the University and to increase Internal Medicine’s impact on research.

Anika Hartz

Novel approaches to targeting the vasculature and metabolome to prevent brain aging and related diseases

Anika Hartz and an international group of colleagues published an editorial in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience on novel approaches to prevent brain aging and related diseases focusing on the vasculature and metabolome.