Welcome
to the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience!

A major emphasis of the Department is in the areas of neuropharmacology, neuroscience, and toxicology, with research in:
• drug and alcohol addiction research
• stress
• neurotransmitter receptor function
• oxidative mechanisms of toxicity
• molecular regulation of toxicity and apoptosis
• gene therapy
• carcinogenesis and cancer chemoprevention

The Department offers graduate programs of study in neuroscience and toxicology and maintains an NIH training grant for its program of study in drug and alcohol addiction research.

Graduate Program

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Deadline for Fall 2009 admission
is January 8, 2009

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summer research opportunities
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In the Spotlight...

Congratulations to Malari Coburn, a student worker in lab of Dr. Heather Kleiner, for being selected to receive Undergraduate Student Travel Support for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology!

Congratulations to Chris Davis for winning the Student Platform Presentation Award at the South Central Chapter of the Society of Toxicology Meeting in Monroe, LA!!!

Dallas Krentzel , a high school student working in the lab of Dr. Tammy Dugas, was named a semi-finalist in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition.