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Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology

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Year One
Basic Biomedical Sciences
Common Curriculum
Required. 15 h/week, two semesters.

Year Two
Principles of Pharmacology
With emphasis on evaluation of experimental data.
Required. 3-4 h/week, one semester.
Core Pharmacology
Dental, Pharmacy or Medical Pharmacology - providing a knowledge base of the range of pharmacologic actions of therapeutic agents with integrated exposure to physiology.
Required. 9 h/week, one semester or 4 h/week, two semesters.
Qualifying Examinations:
Written Exam (covering years 1 and 2);
Oral Exam (presenting a research project likely to evolve into a dissertation project).

Year Three and Beyond
Track-Specific Advanced Courses
Two Advanced Courses (see examples below)
Journal Club
Seminar Series
Advanced Course Examples
Cell Signaling/Cancer Biology: Advanced Topics in Cell Signaling
Drug Disposition/Toxicology: Cellular Defense Against Foreign Chemicals
Functional Genomics: Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics

Dissertation Committee consists of three members of the Pharmacology Graduate Training Committee or its designee.

Students (with consent of mentor) can take any course offered in any of the tracks.

Courses taken may be internal or external to the Department.

Core Pharmacology course is required prior to taking qualifying exam.

Written exams will be crafted to reflect the electives selected by each student.

Once qualifier has been passed, any courses of interest and value to a student can be taken, after consultation with the advisor and committee.

Further information regarding the program may be obtained by writing to one of our Co-Directors of the Graduate Training Program, Lauren Ball, Ph.D. or Jennifer Isaacs, Ph.D., in the Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology.
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