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Pharmacy School in FY19 Research Funding

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Research Centers

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.

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Faculty Expertise

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

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Office of Research Operations

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.

Seminars & Symposia

COMING SOON - The College of Pharmacy research seminar series and our annual thematic TODD Symposium provide platforms for our students, staff and faculty to learn from and interact with world-class research experts and to share recent research advances and discoveries. 

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Research Training

The UK College of Pharmacy offers both undergraduate and graduate-level research opportunities for prospective trainees to train alongside some of the most talented pharmaceutical scientists on the planet. 

 

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Faculty Research

Our investigators have a long and proud history of discovering the next big thing. Learn more about our diverse faculty and their broad range of interests that span early drug lead discovery through healthcare outcomes research.

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Recent News

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How a UK alumna is helping humanitarian relief operations in Syria

By Caitlyn Romanski Oct 12, 2021

Since 2011, Dr. Khaula Sawah has dedicated her pharmacy career and personal life to aiding those affected by the Syrian war and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Syria and Turkey. She is also the co-founder of the non-profit Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations-USA (UOSSM USA) and currently serves as president of the organization in the U.S.

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'Honest pride and belief in self' is essential for students says UKCOP's first Black PharmD

By Caitlyn Romanski Oct 5, 2021

Long ago, while reflecting on his life’s accomplishments, Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis said, “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” This statement perfectly describes the education and career of pharmacy pioneer Dr. Welton O’Neal. O’Neal (PharmD 1981, R126) was the first Black student at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy to graduate with a PharmD. He was also the first Black man to complete the post-PharmD pharmacy residency training at UK HealthCare under the program director, Paul Parker, PharmD, and his direct mentor, John Piecoro, PharmD. Having paved the way for Black pharmacy students and achieved tremendous personal success, O’Neal currently works at Supernus Pharmaceuticals, leading the organization as Vice President of Medical Affairs.

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UK College of Pharmacy to help address inequities with new scholarship

By Jacob Lewis Sep 29, 2021

The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy has created a scholarship in an effort to address inequity within the pharmacy profession. The scholarship, put in place at the request of UKCOP’s students, was created after students help identify the need for more substantial scholarship support to enable attendance of a more diverse student body.

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Where Do You Want to Go?

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.

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.

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