Pharmacology. Academic Program Description

A program that focuses on the scientific study of drug interactions on biological systems and organisms and the sources, chemical properties, biological effects, and therapeutic uses of drugs. Includes instruction in pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, drug therapeutics, drug action, bodily responses to drug events, biochemical proliferation and differentiation, apoptosis, cell biology, medicinal chemistry, and studies of specific drugs and drug interactions. (Moved from 26.0705)

Related Occupations

• Biological Science Teachers
• Medical Scientists
• Natural Sciences Managers

Colleges Offering this Curriculum

• Baylor College of Medicine
• Boston University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Columbia University in the City of New York
• Cornell University
• Creighton University
• Dartmouth College
• Georgetown University
• George Washington University
• Howard University
• Indiana University-Bloomington
• Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
• Johns Hopkins University
• Loma Linda University
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport
• Loyola University Chicago
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Science
• Mayo Graduate School
• Medical College of Georgia
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Medical University of South Carolina
• New York Medical College
• New York University
• Ohio State University-Main Campus
• Oral Roberts University
• Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hershey College of Medicine
• Rush University
• Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway
• Saint Louis University-Main Campus
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Stony Brook University
• SUNY at Buffalo
• SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
• SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse
• Temple University
• The University of Tennessee
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
• The University of Texas Medical Branch
• Thomas Jefferson University
• Tulane University of Louisiana
• University of Arizona
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• University of California-Santa Barbara
• University of Chicago
• University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
• University of Hawaii at Manoa
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Iowa
• University of Kansas Medical Center
• University of Maryland-Baltimore
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• University of Miami
• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• University of Minnesota-Duluth
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• University of Nebraska Medical Center
• University of Nevada-Reno
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of North Dakota
• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus
• University of Rochester
• University of Vermont
• University of Virginia-Main Campus
• University of Washington - Seattle
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Vanderbilt University
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Wake Forest University
• Weill Cornell Medical College
• Yale University