All students accepted into the doctoral program are offered financial assistance in the form of graduate assistantships or traineeships. Also available are registration fee scholarships.
Some financial assistance is available to accepted masters students.
The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the College of Pharmacy and the Department of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine, through the Interdisciplinary Committee on Pharmacology and Toxicology, offer programs leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The Master of Science degree also offers a specialization in industrial hygiene or a specialization in perfusion science. Pharmacology is the science concerned with all aspects of the action of drugs and other chemicals on living systems. Its primary aim is the discovery of chemical mechanisms by which cellular and molecular functions are regulated, for the purpose of understanding how existing drugs act, and to develop new drugs for prevention or treatment of illness and disease. The broad scope of interests of pharmacology ranges from the study of intermolecular reactions of chemical constituents of cells with drugs, to the effects of drugs on entire populations within society.