connecting research to real people Research

The College is home to several centers of research excellence, providing a platform for our students, faculty, and staff to collaborate on complex health care problems.

Our frontline researchers are committed to solving Kentucky's problems and providing global health care solutions.

Our team is dedicated to providing programs, support services, and infrastructure to enable the pioneering research of our faculty, the diverse portfolio of which spans basic, translational, health outcomes, and public policy research.

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have the opportunity to study alongside world-class faculty and staff in a number of new and emerging areas of science. Investigators conduct front-line research in areas of pharmaceutics that range from identifying fundamental mechanisms of disease to designing and developing new drugs, to understanding the impact of policies on health care.