Cellas A. Hayes, PhD
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cellas.hayes@uky.eduPositions
- Assistant Professor
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Biography and Education
Education
Dr. Hayes has eight years of neuropharmacology preclinical research experience, including undergraduate and doctoral training at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Biology with minors in Classics and Latin (2019), followed by his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences with an emphasis in pharmacology (2022). Dr. Hayes also received a certificate in observational epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Mississippi Medical Center Graduate Training Education Center in 2022 and completed four years of postdoctoral training in neuroepidemiology at Stanford University prior to joining the University of Kentucky as faculty.
Research
Dr. Hayes combines advanced epidemiological and biostatistical tools with multimodal biological, clinical, and social data including plasma proteomic biomarkers, neuroimaging, and demographics to better understand cognitive and vascular aging. The laboratory has three focuses: 1) evaluating longitudinal changes in blood-based biomarkers and their relationships with neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular outcomes; 2) applying multi-omics approaches, including proteomics and genomics, to identify novel biomarkers and mechanistic pathways relevant to ADRD heterogeneity; 3) understanding population differences in brain aging and health by investigating the biological and social determinants of ADRD.