University of Kentucky Office of Biomedical Education

University of Kentucky Office of Biomedical Education The Office of Biomedical Education provides administrative support for the basic science graduate programs at the University of Kentucky

The Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBS) is an undifferentiated first-year core curriculum that serves as the entry point for six doctoral programs housed in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Students are admitted to IBS and, at the end of the IBS year, select their doctoral programs in one of these basic science departments:

Anatomy & Neurobiology
Toxicology and Cancer Biology
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obiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Pharmacology & Nutritional Sciences
Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry
Physiology

09/01/2026

For years, scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias have focused on one version of a protein called tau, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease and more than two dozen other neurodegenerative disorders collectively called tauopathies. But University of Kentucky researcher Daniel ...

07/20/2026

In a study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, a team led by Shannon L. Macauley, Ph.D., an associate professor of physiology in the UK College of Medicine, and first author Nicholas J. Constantino, Ph.D., a recent UK doctoral graduate, revealed that microglia are the primary driv...

07/13/2026

University of Kentucky researcher and internationally recognized Alzheimer’s disease expert Linda Van Eldik, Ph.D., has received one of the field’s highest honors, the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research.

07/01/2026

Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have uncovered evidence that a single genetic variant may influence the risk of two of the diseases people fear most — dementia and cancer — but in opposite ways. The findings, recently published in the Journal of Neuropatho...

06/22/2026

A growing body of research suggests that sleep may be more than a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease — it may also play a role in how the disease develops and progresses. Now, new research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is shedding light on how everyday environ...

06/11/2026

Greg A. Gerhardt, Ph.D., is a professor in the UK College of Medicine’s Department of Neuroscience and holds the Charles D. Lucas Jr. Professorship for Parkinson’s Disease Research. His research has focused on “bench to-bedside” development of novel therapeutics and disease-modifying therapi...

05/21/2026

A new study from researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is exploring whether a drug originally developed to combat neuroinflammation in dementia could also help reduce the harmful brain inflammation associated with alcohol withdrawal — a discovery that could ev...

05/11/2026

Research 5 UK faculty honored for excellence in undergraduate research mentoring By Isabelle Muccio May 8, 2026 From left: Warren Alilain, Lance Johnson, Carol Street, Bruno Menarim and Sybil Gotsch. Photo courtesy of UK Office for Undergraduate Research. LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 8, 2026) — Five Univer...

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