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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Pharmacology

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Nutritional Sciences Graduate Faculty

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Kevin J. Pearson, PhD

  • Professor
  • Assistant Dean for Research Engagement, Office of Research, College of Medicine
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
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Julie Pendergast, PhD

  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
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Rina Plattner, PhD

  • Professor
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Graduate Faculty in Toxicology
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
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Sara B. Police, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Director of Nutritional Sciences Education
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
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Nada Porter, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • MD/PhD Program Mentor
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
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Cetewayo S. Rashid, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, Regular Title
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
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Hiroshi Saito, PhD

  • Professor
  • Surgery
  • Physiology
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Brett Spear, PhD

  • Professor
  • Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
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Marlene E Starr, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Surgery
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Patrick Sullivan, PhD

  • Professor of Neuroscience
  • University Research Professor
  • Endowed Chair The Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC)
  • Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center
  • Neuroscience
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Surendranath Suman, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Science
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Hollie Swanson, PhD

  • Professor
  • Director, Summer Undergraduate Research in Environmental Health Sciences (SURES)
  • DGS of Integrated Biomedical Sciences
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Office of Biomedical Education
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Ryan E. Temel, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
  • Chair, Department of Physiology Research Committee
  • Chair, Trainees in Research Advisory Committee, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Physiology
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Olivier Thibault, PhD

  • Professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Co-Director Sanders-Brown Intravital Imaging Facility
  • Director of Graduate Studies for Pharmacology Graduate Program
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
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D. Travis Thomas, PhD, RDN, CSSD, LD, FAND

  • Associate Professor of Clinical and Sports Nutrition
  • Health Sciences - Department of Athletic Training and Clinical Nutrition
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Salvatore Turco, PhD

  • Professor
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Shuxia Wang, MD, PhD

  • Professor
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
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Nancy R. Webb, PhD

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
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Youling Xiong, PhD

  • Animal and Food Sciences
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