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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

09.30.09 GCNS awarded NIH P30 Grant on Fetal Programming and Obesity-Induced Cardiovascular Diseases as part of the ARRA program.  This grant will provide funds for support of a faculty member within this research area.  Interested candidates, please see a description of the position:  American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS).

08.25.09 Welcome to new masters and doctoral students within the GCNS! We welcome 11 new PhD and 17 new MS students!
08.14.09 NIH COBRE on Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease announces new Pilot Project Program for support of research.
07.15.09 GCNS Faculty Shuxia Wang awarded American Society of Nephrology Grant to study diabetic nephropathy.

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