The Pharmacology Department is a premiere program in biomedical research, focusing on understanding how drugs and chemicals modify biological systems. Faculty carry out research in diverse areas such as cancer pharmacology, and develops new drugs to treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and autism. The department furthers the education of students through its top-ranked Ph.D. program in Pharmacology, which offers students access to outstanding faculty to build their research careers.
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October 23, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ has received a four-year, $8.2 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to develop and test an experimental...
October 6, 2026
Dr. Samie Jaffrey, the Greenberg-Starr Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Â鶹´«Ã½, has received a five-year, $5.5 million NIH Director’s Transformative...
August 20, 2026
Prostate tumors can rewire amino acid metabolism to override the normal brakes on cholesterol production, a process that may fuel hormone therapy resistance, according to a study...
