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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

2
Education Programs
Pharmacology: PhD and undergrad minor tracks; Nutritional Sciences: master's and PhD tracks
40+
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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Research Spotlight

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.

Figure of Nuclear receptor protein structural domains, with DNA blinding domain hinged to the Ligand binding domain. A lower section shows the general folded structure of this protein, with a Ligand binding pocket.

Congratulations to Dr. Ren Xu for his recent PNAS article on a new treatment target for metastatic cancer

Sally Pauss and Evelyn Bates are co-first authors on a review article appearing in JBC entitled "Steroid Receptors and Coregulators: Dissemination of Sex Differences and Emerging Technologies”. Sally and Evelyn are PhD students in our Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences programs, respectively, and are working with Drs. Gipson-Reichardt and Hinds.