Ph.D. Program

The Ph.D. Program in Nutritional Sciences offers advanced multidisciplinary studies that serve as a springboard for nutrition-related careers in academia, industry and government. The program emphasizes interdisciplinary research opportunities in laboratories run by nationally known faculty, with nutrition-related studies ranging from molecular mechanisms to complex metabolic interactions, disease-health interactions and behavioral processes.

One of the Center’s primary areas of research and training targets nutrition and chronic diseases, with a focus on obesity and associated disorders of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Other specialty areas include nutrition and oxidative stress, nutrition and aging, clinical nutrition, animal nutrition and food science.

In addition to their research activities, Ph.D. students must fulfill curriculum requirements, complete a dissertation, fulfill residency requirements and pass a thesis defense, as outlined in the Center’s Handbook (pdf) . The program takes four to five years to complete.

Contacts

Steven Post, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology
Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences  
University of Kentucky
Wethington Building, Room 501
900 S. Limestone
Lexington KY 40536-0200  
email: spost@uky.edu
Tel.: (859) 323-4933 x81371
Fax: (859) 257-3646