Congratulations are in order to Benjamin J. Fowler, PhD, who successfully defended his dissertation yesterday. Fowler has been studying under Dr. Jay Ambati in the Department of Ophthalmology. This milestone marks the conclusion of his graduate requirements of his PhD program. Fowler studies non-...
PhD Programs
UK is one of only a few universities in the nation to have all six health science colleges – Medicine, Dentistry, Health Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health – on one campus, making the university well-positioned to pursue inter-professional health care education and...
Research
Research is an integral part of the University of Kentucky. UK is one of the institutions designated a Research I University by the Carnegie Foundation. Only 108 universities in the country share this distinction as high research institutions. By making this list, it is clear that the...
Program Overview
The MD-PhD curriculum at the University of Kentucky follows a traditional MSTP-style curriculum. Students usually graduate in 7 or 8 years; our average length of training is 7.3 years. Below is the typical time-line for training; in rare instances, individuals may tailor a...
Is the MD/PhD Program right for you?
The University of Kentucky’s MD/PhD program trains the best and brightest in the skills, intellectual tools and science of both clinical medicine and ground-breaking biomedical research. As one of only a handful of universities to have six healthcare colleges on...
As one of only a handful of universities to have six health science colleges on the same medical campus and to be physically contiguous with the main campus, we offer a broad array of graduate training opportunities. In addition to traditional biomedical graduate training in the Anatomy/...
Malignant cutaneous melanoma is an aggressive cancer affecting 132,000 individuals worldwide, and it causes about 10,000 deaths per year. It has a high correlation with...
