Patrick Sullivan
Dr. Patrick Sullivan is an established investigator who is the PI for Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in CNS Metabolism Association, 2017 – present Professor (tenured), Department of Neuroscience and Endowed Chair in the Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center. 2017- present Research Physiologist, Lexington VAMC, Lexington, KY […]
Binhua P Zhou
Binhua P Zhou is an established investigator who is the PI for University of Kentucky Center for Cancer Metabolism Association MD, Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, China PhD, Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin Post-doc, Breast Cancer Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Visit Program.
Jackie Willmot
Jackie Willmot is an established investigator who is the PI for I-RED Southeast XLerator Network Association,30+ years of experience in the healthcare industry including 13 years as a clinician and 15 years as an executive at Humana in the Innovation Center including 3 years working for a Humana Startup in the United Kingdom. Since leaving […]
Craig McClain
Dr. Craig McClain, MD is a Gastroenterology Specialist in Louisville, KY, and has over 49 years of experience in the medical field. Dr. McClain has more experience with Liver Disease than other specialists in his area. He graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine medical school in 1972. He is affiliated with medical […]
Daret St. Clair
Daret St. Clair Professor, Interim Chair, James Graham Brown Foundation Endowed Chair, Vice-Chair for Research, Associate Director for Basic Science, Markey Cancer Center. The primary research focus of this laboratory is in the area of the mitochondrial antioxidant defense system. We cloned the human gene for the primary superoxide removal enzyme in mitochondria, manganese superoxide […]
Jun Yan
Jun Yan, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Surgery, Microbiology, and Immunology, and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Endowed Chair in Translational Research, Brown Cancer Center, Director, Division of Immunotherapy, UofL School of Medicine. Dr. Yan’s current major research interests are to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which yeast-derived polysaccharide b-glucan modulates immunosuppressive myeloid cells to […]
Richard Lamont
Richard Lamont, Ph.D. Research Interests: The oral cavity is a complex ecosystem that is home to a diverse assemblage of bacteria with a spectrum of pathogenic potentials. On tooth surfaces, these organisms assemble into a complex multispecies biofilm community, commonly known as dental plaque. Community formation is a dynamic process involving the attachment of bacteria […]
Jon Scott Thorson
Jon Scott Thorson, Ph.D., Professor, Associate Dean of Research. Professor Thorson joined the UK College of Pharmacy in the Fall of 2011 as the first director of the new UK Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (2011-2020), interim co-director of the Markey Cancer Center’s Drug Discovery, Delivery, and Translational Therapeutics Program (2012-2015) and co-director of the Drug Discovery and […]
Steven Jones
Steven Jones, Ph.D., FAHA, Professor of Medicine, University Scholar, Director, Diabetes and Obesity Center Research Interests Understanding the mechanisms of cardiac muscle damage during a heart attack and developing novel therapeutics to preserve the heart Elucidating the molecular regulation of cardiac hypertrophy and the transition to heart failure Investigating the confounding influence of risk factors […]
Lisa Cassis
Dr. Lisa Cassis has served as the University of Kentucky’s Vice President for Research since June 2015. As Vice-President for Research, Dr. Lisa Cassis leads the university’s research enterprise and oversees research proposal development, grants and contracts administration, human subjects protection, 13 multidisciplinary research centers and institutes, and seven service core facilities. She has provided […]