CPRI The Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation
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The Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (CPRI) facilitates basic and clinical research in drug discovery and development. The CPRI assists UK-based researchers to identify novel chemical probes and drug leads to address unmet medical needs in various disease areas and assisting in advancing projects to in vivo preclinical proof of principle. Through our Computational, Synthesis, and Translational Cores, and our Natural Products Library we provide unique services and build innovative research collaborations with investigators across the university.
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Funding Acknowledgment Statement
This work was supported by the Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (CPRI, NIH P20 GM130456) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1 TR001998).
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.