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The Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences - Finding Crucial Answers to 21st Century Health Issues

The impact of nutrition on health and disease is becoming increasingly complex and important. Questions related to the impact of nutrients on everything from genetics to whole body metabolism continue to multiply, especially as obesity and associated chronic diseases become increasingly pervasive in industrialized societies.

The Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences at the University of Kentucky is an ideal setting to study these multifaceted issues. The Center offers an interdisciplinary program led by nationally renowned faculty that provides a high-quality educational experience across a wide spectrum of nutrition-related subjects.

Primary research and training areas target obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Other areas of specialty include nutrition and oxidative stress, nutrition and aging, clinical nutrition, animal nutrition and food science.

Mission

The mission of the Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences is to train highly skilled nutritional scientists equipped to tackle critical nutrition-related disease and health issues and pursue promising careers in the rapidly expanding nutritional sciences field.

 

News

November' 07 The Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences was recognized as one of the top ten nutrition programs in the Country in the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index by Academic Analytics.


August' 07 Dr. Jianhua Shao, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences, receives the 2007 Thomas Lee Career Development Award from the American Diabetes Association (ADA). This award is given from the ADA to applicants who receive the best reviewer score on their application. To read more on the focus of this award, please follow the link


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