Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, PhD

About this programme

The Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics hosts the Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences Graduate Program, which offers a program of study and research leading to the PhD degree. Research training opportunities within the program cover a broad spectrum of biomedical sciences, including chemical biology, immunology, virology, cancer, and neuroscience. The mission of departmental research is to understand the molecular processes underlying physiology and pathology and to apply this knowledge to discover new drug targets and develop novel therapeutics. Within the program, students may choose to focus their efforts in any of a large number of specific research areas, including signal transduction, structural biology, and drug design, NMR spectroscopy, molecular genetics, cancer chemoprevention, viral immunosuppression, cancer immunology, cell-mediated immunity, mechanisms of HIV infection, vaccine development, glycobiology, biomedical mass spectrometry, clinical pharmacology, drug delivery, anti-parasite drug development, histone acetylation and gene regulation, melatonin and circadian rhythm, drug metabolism, Vitamin D pharmacology, natural product biosynthesis, telomerase and chromosome stability, T-cell activation and tolerance, DNA repair, DNA topoisomerases, molecular imaging, and the clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular agents.