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Nutritional Science Research

Overview

The nutritional sciences division provides unique opportunities for wide-ranging interdisciplinary research collaborations targeting nutrition and chronic diseases. A number of faculty with primary appointments in the department of pharmacology and nutritional sciences have expertise in nutritional sciences, with research emphases in the areas of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases (e.g., obesity, diabetes), cancer, and aging.

50
Affiliated Faculty
affiliated with the nutritional sciences division, providing expertise in other specialty areas
28
Departments and Divisions
in UK’s Colleges of Medicine, Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Nursing, Agriculture, Education, and Arts and Sciences

More than 50 faculty from 28 departments and divisions in UK’s Colleges of Medicine, Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Nursing, Agriculture, Education, and Arts and Sciences are affiliated with the nutritional sciences division, providing expertise in other specialty areas including nutrition and oxidative stress, clinical nutrition, animal nutrition, and food science. 

Nutritional Sciences Graduate Faculty