Life Sciences Advisory Committee Charge

The University of Kentucky's Top 20 goals with respect to research hinges largely on success in the life sciences. Because of the cost of leading edge science research, we need to be very deliberate in our investment strategies. Life sciences research today is highly interdisciplinary, and one of the challenges for complex organizations like UK is to align research interests and strengths across departmental and college boundaries. Clearly, each college does its own planning and sets priorities to advance its research agenda. However, the President and I need advice from a group of high-level research faculty who have the vision and the wisdom to find or recommend some common research threads across departments and colleges most suitable for further development and investment.

Life Sciences Advisory Committee composition

• Frederick deBeer, Department of Internal Medicine (Chair)
• Leonidas Bachas, Department of Chemistry
• Alan Daugherty, Cardiovascular Research Center
• Mark Dignan, Department of Internal Medicine
• Louis Hersh, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
• William Markesbery, Center on Aging
• Patrick McNamara, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Charlotte Peterson, College of Health Sciences
• Bruce Webb, Department of Entomology