Full Members Professors Wesley J. Birge, Robert Blouin, Gilbert Boissonneault, Subbarao Bondada, Geza Bruckner, Lisa Cassis, Ching K. Chow, Donald Cohen, Peter Crooks, Douglas L.Dahlman, George A. Digenis, Linda Dwoskin, James W. Flesher, Vincent Gallicchio, Howard Glauert, Ramesh Gupta, Bernhard Hennig, Louis B. Hersh, Davy Jones, Alan Kaplan, Hartmut H. Malluche, Patrick J. McNamara, William N. O'Connor, Peter R. Oeltgen, Vivek Rangnekar, Larry Robertson, John Slevin, Charles Snow, Daret St. Clair, Thomas Tobin, Mary Vore, Robert A. Yokel. Associate Professors Kathryn M. Albers, Rosemarie Booze, C. Gary Gairola, Edward J. Kasarskis, Charles Mactutus, Joseph P. McGillis, Daniel Noonan,Brent D. Palmer, L. Creed Pettigrew, Todd D. Porter, Steven Shedlofsky, Roy A. Smith, Zhigang Wang, Peter Wedlund, Stephen Zimmer. Assistant Professors Tim Miller, David Orren. Emeritus Professors David M. Allen.
Toxicology is the science of poisons and their interactions with living systems.
The University of Kentucky Graduate Center for Toxicology trains individuals to use the biological, physical, and mathematical sciences in the study of the causes, mechanisms, and evaluation of poisonings as well as the sources, identification and quantitation of poisons. The center has 10 core and fifty jointly-appointed faculty, who are drawn from several departments and colleges including Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Medicine, Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Preventive Medicine and Radiation Medicine. The program offers both Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Toxicology. The Center's primary toxicologic emphases are in the areas of Environmental Toxicology, Immunotoxicology, Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicology, and Neurotoxicology with areas of special study available to students in arthropod toxins, behavioral toxicology, clinical and forensic toxicology, environmental medicine and chemistry, equine toxicology, genetic and biochemical toxicology, mechanisms of carcinogenesis, nutritional toxicology, pesticide toxicology, radiation toxicology, and reproductive toxicology. Many G.C.T. graduates have gone on to take important positions in academia, government and business.