Clinical & Experimental Therapeutics
The completion of a Pharm.D., D.D.S., D.V.M. or other professional health degree is required for admission into this training track.
The focus of the program is translational research, which involves studies that occur at the interface of the bench and bedside. Information flow at this interface is bi-directional. Hence, PhD graduates of the Clinical & Experimental Therapeutics program will be trained to function at this interface. Since all students admitted to the program will have a clinical/health profession degree, the emphasis of the program will be training in the basic science, which improves the graduates ability to successfully compete for extramural funding. There are required clinical components to assure competency in the foundations, principle and processes of clinical research. The keystone of the training is the conduct of an integrated laboratory-based and clinical dissertation.
Financial Support
Several graduate programs in The University of Kentucky recently received financial support from the Research Challenge Initiative, a Commonwealth of Kentucky supported effort to enable The University of Kentucky to become a top 20 federal research institution by the year 2020. The Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics training program supports graduate students with stipends, payment of tuition (approximately $15724.50 for combined in- and out-of-state tuition), as well as health insurance (approximately $894.00 per year). The financial support comes from the Research Challenge Initiative and from teaching assistant assignments. Even higher stipends are available when an extramural/competitive fellowship is received, such as an AFPE fellowship or an NIH National Research Service Award.
All students enrolled in the Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics (CET) track will receive a minimum base stipend of $22,000 per year and are eligible for additional funds by acceptance of a Teaching Assistantship. The following guidelines will be used to determine individual student stipends:
Year 1 and 2:
Base stipend: $22,000 TA (required): $6,500 Max Stipend: $34,000
Year 3 and beyond:
Base stipend: $22,000 TA (optional): $7,500 Max Stipend: $35,000
Faculty
The Clinical & Experimental Therapeutics faculty have diverse areas of expertise; collectively, there are therapeutic strengths in Oncology, Cardiology, Infectious Disease, and Neurosciences. Following are the graduate faculty in the Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics training program.
- Contact information — Janice Buss, Ph.D.
office phone: 859-323-0094, email: jbuss2@email.uky.edu
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