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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

2
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

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.

Dr. Ren Xu wearing his white coat, sitting at his computer.

UK researcher makes breakthrough in breast cancer research

Dr. Ren Xu has discovered a link between a patient being overweight and breast cancer and may have found a way to slow the progression of the disease in those patients.