Nutritional Sciences

The mission of Nutritional Sciences is to train highly skilled nutritional scientists equipped to tackle critical nutrition-related disease and health issues and pursue promising careers in the...

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Cardiovascular, Obesity & Diabetes Research Emphasis

Can novel drug targets be identified to slow the progression of abdominal aortic aneurysms? Is a stimulated renin-angiotensin system the link between obesity and the myriad of obesity-induced...

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Research Emphasis on the Molecular Basis for Cancer

The cancer faculty in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences are interested in studying the molecular basis of cancer initiation and metastatic progression. This involves using...

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Neuroscience Research Emphasis

The neuroscience faculty of the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences focuses on brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease with an emphasis on how comorbid conditions/diseases (diabetes,...

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Teaching an Old Drug New Tricks –...
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Feb
12

Activation of and Downstream...
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Feb
19

Hua Qing, Nutritional Sciences PhD...
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Feb
26

Nutritional and Pharmacological...
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Mar
5

Acute Psychosocial Stress Response...
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Nutritional Sciences

Cardiovascular, Obesity & Diabetes Research Emphasis

Research Emphasis on the Molecular Basis for Cancer

Neuroscience Research Emphasis

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