Primary Faculty
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Francisco H. Andrade, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
Contact
(859) 323-6576paco.andrade@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B371
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Erhard Bieberich, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
Contact
859-323-8079Erhard.Bieberich@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B269
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Cheavar A Blair, PhD
Positions Held:
- Assistant Professor
Contact
859-218-2427cabl223@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B363
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Lei Chen, MD, PhD
Positions Held:
- Associate Professor, Research Track
Contact
Lei.Chen@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B465
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Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc, FAHA
Positions Held:
- Associate Vice President for Research
- Chair, Physiology
- Director, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Contact
859-323-3512Primary Contact
Tanya Graf
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B243, Lexington, KY 40536-0509
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Brian P. Delisle, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
Contact
(859) 323-2797brian.delisle@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B353
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Steven Estus, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor, Department of Physiology
Contact
859-218-3858steve.estus@uky.edu
Office: 789 S. Limestone St, Lee T. Todd, Jr. Building, Rm: 537 , Lexington, KY 40536-0596, Lab: 789 S. Limestone St, Lee T. Todd, Jr. Building, Rm: 566, Lexington, KY 40536-0596
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Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
Contact
Office: (859) 323-8729, Lab: (859) 323-8730gregory.frolenkov@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B375, Our team:
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John Carib Gensel, PhD
Positions Held:
- Director-Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC)
- Associate Professor of Physiology
- SCoBIRC Endowed Chair #5.
Contact
859-218-0516gensel.1@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B483, Lexington, KY 40536
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Ming Cui Gong, PhD, MD
Positions Held:
- Professor
Contact
859-218-1361mcgong2@email.uky.edu
900 South Limestone Street, Wethington Building, Rm: 509, Lexington, KY 40536-0200
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Scott M. Gordon, PhD
Positions Held:
- Associate Professor
Contact
(859) 323-8134scott.gordon@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B349
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Gregory Graf, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor, Physiology
- Associate Director, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Contact
859-257-4749Gregory.Graf@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B345
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Brad Hubbard, PhD
Positions Held:
- Assistant Professor
- Research Physiologist, Lexington VA Healthcare System
Contact
(859) 562-3495bradhubbard@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B467
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Brian A. Jackson, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
- Director of Education, Department of Physiology
Contact
(859) 323-8503 (Physiology)brian.jackson@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B357
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Lance A. Johnson, PhD
Positions Held:
- Associate Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physiology
Contact
859-323-2746Johnson.Lance@uky.edu
760 Press Ave, Healthy Kentucky Research Building 135, Lexington, KY 40536
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Xiang-An Li, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
- Regular Faculty
Contact
859-257-5113xli2@email.uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B255
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Hong S. Lu, MD, PhD
Positions Held:
- Associate Professor
Contact
859-323-4639Hong.Lu@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B249
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Shannon L Macauley, PhD
Positions Held:
- Associate Professor
Contact
8593230598Shannon.Macauley@uky.edu
760 Press Ave, Healthy Kentucky Research Building 136, Lexington, KY 40536
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John J McCarthy, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
Contact
(859) 494-2505jjmcca2@email.uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B373, 741 South Limestone, Lexington, KY 40536
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Timothy S McClintock, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor of Physiology
- University Research Professor
Contact
859-323-1083mcclint@uky.edu
780 Rose Street, Medical Science Building, Rm: MS-585, Lexington, KY 40536-0298
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Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor
- Director of Research, Department of Physiology
Contact
859-323-8210mariana.karakashian@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B365
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Ok-Kyong Park-Sarge, PhD
Positions Held:
- Associate Professor
Contact
(859) 323-6067okps@email.uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B367
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Samir P. Patel, PhD
Positions Held:
- Associate Professor
- Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC), Department of Physiology
Contact
859-323-6477skpate2@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B461
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Alexander "Sasha" Rabchevsky, PhD
Positions Held:
- Professor of Physiology
Contact
(859) 323-0267agrab@uky.edu
741 South Limestone Street, Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building, Rm: B471