The Toxicology Program is designed to train students to assume positions as toxicologists in academia, industry, and government. The faculty participants come from a number of departments and colleges of The University of Georgia. These departments include Ecology, Environmental Health Science, Foods and Nutrition, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, and Poultry Science. The Departments of Pathology and Physiology and Pharmacology of the College of Veterinary Medicine also participate. The toxicology faculty cooperates both in graduate training and in collaborative research, so that graduate students can interact with scientists from different disciplines and have the opportunity to specialize in research in one of a number of areas.
Toxicology is the study of harmful effects of chemicals on humans and other living organisms.
It is inherently a broad multidisciplinary field requiring expertise in a number of biological sciences. The focus of each track is different, but there is an overlap of core course requirements in each track. The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Toxicology was organized in 1986, and was fostered by the University in recognition of the need in Georgia for an inter-disciplinary program of excellence in graduate education, research, and service in toxicology. The program is overseen by a Coordinating Committee, and is headed by the Director, the Chair of the Coordinating Committee, and the Graduate Coordinator.