The graduate program offers a multidisciplinary approach to training in cellular and molecular pharmacology, signal transduction, neuropharmacology, biochemistry, and molecular structure, as well as opportunities in the blossoming field of biotechnology. The graduate program also provides the opportunity for hands-on training in a variety of state-of-the-art laboratory techniques, including transgenics, gene chip arrays, NMR, mass spectrometry, computational pharmacology, and x-ray crystallography. The mission of the CCPR Department of Pharmacology is to provide individuals a broad and solid foundation of the principles of pharmacology, and to train them to become critical thinkers who can generate experimentally testable hypotheses, and who draw significant conclusions from the results of their ongoing research.
Our pharmacology lab is equipped with all the required instruments and animals to carry out the research activities by the graduates. In the department of pharmacology, we learn about the action of various on the living tissues and then this knowledge is extended to the treatment of various diseases and disorders, thus form the science of therapeutics. It is obvious that both pharmacology and pharmaco-therapeutics are extremely helpful to medical and premedical professions. At the same time these subjects are useful to professionals working on pharmaceutical research and marketing. It provides the marketing persons with the knowledge on the product that enables them to communicate to doctors.