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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

2
Education Programs
Pharmacology: PhD and undergrad minor tracks; Nutritional Sciences: master's and PhD tracks
33+
Faculty Members
Across our multidisciplinary and collaborative department
5+
Affiliated research centers and alliances
Top research areas include aging, cancer, cardiovascular issues, and diabetes

Welcome to the 海角禁区 College of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences!

We are a unique unit, the only one of its kind in US academic institutions, with research and graduate training programs in pharmacology and nutritional sciences all within one basic science department. 

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Spotlights

Department Accomplishments

 

  • Congratulations to Blaine Weiss for his award for best poster at the 2025 Markesbury Symposium

 

  • A huge congratulations to Katie Land for receiving the College of Medicine Graduate Student of the Year Award!

 

  • Congratulations to Sophiya Sims and Zach Beckner for receiving trainee positions on the T32 DOYEN training grant awarded to Drs. Barbara Nikolajczyk and Simon Fisher!

 

 

 

 

From left to right: Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD andSimon J. Fisher, MD, PhD

Simon J. Fisher, MD, PhD, and Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD, awarded grant for diabetes research training

This grant will support their five-year project 鈥淒iabetes and ObesitY research training in kENtucky,鈥 also known as DOYEN. DOYEN hopes to make bigger contributions for the health communities touched by the University and to increase Internal Medicine鈥檚 impact on research.

Anika Hartz and an international group of colleagues published an editorial in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience on novel approaches to prevent brain aging and related diseases focusing on the vasculature and metabolome.