Chi Peng is a graduate student in the Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBS) program at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine seeking a PhD in pharmacology. She shares her path to graduate school and how her work in IBS will prepare her for her future career in research.

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Early into her research career at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Tianyan Gao, PhD, says mentorship was vital to her success. Now, as a professor and co-principal investigator of a team supported by the college’s Alliance Research Initiative, she is able to mentor the next generation of researchers who are working to find solutions for one of Kentucky’s major health issues.

The 13th Annual Hardin Award was presented to Taylor Valentino, a graduate student in John McCarthy's lab, on March 11, 2021.

University of Kentucky HealthCare is proud to announce the opening of the new state of the art Radiology Interventional Services!

CHET is pleased to partner with the College of Public Health and the Center for Innovation in Population Health for the next virtual event in their series on creating an anti-racist culture in academia. Chandra L. Ford, Ph.D. Professor of Community Health Sciences, and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health at the UCLA Jonathan & Karin Fielding School of Public Health. Dr.

CHET is excited to share that the Substance Use Priority Research Area (SUPRA) is hosting Dr. Alice Cepeda from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work on March 18th at 1:00pm.

Dr. Cepeda focuses on the social epidemiology of drug use and the related health risk behaviors affecting urban Mexican-origin populations.

The University of Kentucky’s TRIPPPLe Team Alliance, Center for Health Equity Transformation, and the Center for Advancement of Pharmacy Practice are delighted to host Dr. Geoffrey Curran from the University of Arkansas who will be presenting on “An Overview of Hybrid Effectiveness – Implementation Designs”.