(31 credits total)

If you were admitted to the program prior to Fall Semester 2018, please refer to the archived pages for applicable program information:  Pharmacology Concentration Requirements Admission Pre-Fall Semester 2018

Required Courses (10 credits)

• PHM 819 Principles of Drug-Tissue Interaction (2)
• PHM 822 Academic & Research Integrity (1)
• PHM 830 Experimental Design and Data Analysis (3)
• PHM 850 Communications for Scientists (2) 
• PHM 982 MS Capstone Literature Review (2)

Requirements for a Pharmacology Concentration include all required courses and elective science courses as designated below (minimum 7 credits of 800-level PHM courses and maximum 9 credits of 400-level courses).

Elective Science Courses for the Pharmacology concentration  (minimum of 8 credits)

• PHM 430 Human Pharmacology (3)
• PHM 431 Pharmacology of Drug Addiction (3)
• PHM 813 Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Toxicology (3)
• PHM 829 Neuropharmacology (2)
• PHM 834 Respiratory Pharmacology and Toxicology (2)
• PHM 835 Biopharmaceuticals: Development to Manufacturing (3)
• PHM 837 Autonomic Pharmacology (1)
• HM 833* Intro to Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting and Public Health (3)

Other Elective Science courses

• PHM 450 Introduction to Toxicology (3)
• PHM 461 Tropical Medicine Pharmacology (2) 
• PHM 483 Chemotherapy of Infectious Diseases (3)
• PHM 492 Pharmacotherapy of Human Viral Infections (2)
• PHM 811 Global Health Phm & Tox Perspective (2)
• PHM 817 Neurotoxicology (2)
• PHM 818 PK/PD Modeling in Drug Development (1)
• PHM 823 Current Topics in Pharmacology & Toxicology (1)
• PHM 828 Concepts in Carcinogenesis (2)
• PHM 831 Endocrine/Reproduction Pharmacology and Toxicology (2)
• PHM 833 Gastrointestinal and Liver Pharmacology and Toxicology (2)
• PHM 838 Pharmacogenomics (2)
• PHM 840 Safety Pharmacology (2)
• PHM 841 Cellular and Molecular Toxicology (3)
• BLD 830* Concepts in Molecular Biology (2)
• HM 803* Epidemiology and Public Health (3)
• HM 806* Environment Factors of Health (3)
• VM 812* Food Safety Toxicology (3)

Professional Elective courses (no more than 5 credits)

• PHM 851 Intellectual Property & Patent Law (2)
• PHM 854 Leadership & Team-Building for Scientists (2)
• PHM 855 Business of Biomedical Research Organizations (2)
• PHM 857 Intro to Project Management (2)
• PHM 858 The Drug Development Process (3)
• BLD 842* Managing Biomedical Lab Operations (2)

* Courses offered by Departments other than Pharmacology and Toxicology.