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Pharmacology and Toxicology
School of Medicine

Departmental E-mail: PHTXgrad@iu.edu

Departmental URL: http://pharmtox.iusm.iu.edu/

(Please note that when conferring University Graduate School degrees, minors, certificates, and sub-plans, The University Graduate School’s staff use those requirements contained only in The University Graduate School Bulletin.)

Curriculum

Curriculum
Courses
Faculty

Special Departmental Requirements

(See also general University Graduate School requirements.)
 
Admission Requirements

Undergraduate grade point average should be well above 3.0 (B). Graduate Record Examination General Test is required for the Ph.D. and for the M.S.

Pharmacology Program

See also “Pharmacology” in the entry for the Medical Sciences Program, Bloomington, in this bulletin.

Pharmacology Graduate Student Advisor

Jill C. Fehrenbacher*, Ph.D., Medical Science Building A419, (317) 274-7844, jfehrenb@iupui.edu

Degrees Offered

Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy

Master of Science Degree

Course Requirements

For the M.S. in Pharmacology, students must take a minimum of 15 credit hours of academic course work and must take a minimum of 15 credit hours of independent research toward a scientific publication.

Thesis

Required.

Final Examination

Not applicable.

Doctor of Philosophy Degree

Course Requirements

All Pharmacology Ph.D. students will be required to take 28 hours of coursework (of that 6 hours will be rotations); the re­maining 62 hours will be research and seminar, for a total of 90 hours. Other requirements for completing the Ph.D. program are (1) publishing two first-author papers, or submitting a state­ment from the student’s research committee indicating that these will be forthcoming; and (2) achieving two of the follow­ing: (a) submitting a grant application, (b) co-authoring a third paper, and (c) presenting two abstracts at regional, national, or international meetings.

Minor

Students generally minor in life sciences. Students should con­sult the Graduate Student Advisor in planning their program.

Advisory Committee

An advisory committee is appointed when the student declares Pharmacology as their Ph.D program.

Qualifying Examination

Written and oral, over concepts and research in pharmacology.
 
Final Examination

Oral defense of dissertation.

¹See also “Pharmacology” in the entry for the Medical Sciences Program, Bloomington, in this bulletin.

Toxicology Program
Degrees Offered

Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy

Master of Science Degree

Course Requirements

For the M.S. in Toxicology, students must take a minimum of 15 credit hours of academic course work and must take a minimum of 15 credit hours of independent research toward a scientific publication.
 
Thesis

Required.

Final Examination

Not applicable.

Doctor of Philosophy Degree

Course Requirements

All Toxicology Ph.D. students will be required to take 28 hours of coursework (of that 6 hours will be rotations); the remaining 62 hours will be research and seminar, for a total of 90 hours. Other requirements for completing the Ph.D. program are (1) publishing two first-author papers, or submitting a state­ment from the student’s research committee indicating that these will be forthcoming; and (2) achieving two of the follow­ing: (a) submitting a grant application, (b) co-authoring a third paper, and (c) presenting two abstracts at regional, national, or international meetings.

Minor

Students generally minor in life sciences. Stu­dents should consult the Graduate Student Advisor in planning their program.

Advisory Committee

An advisory committee is appointed when the student declares Toxicology as their Ph.D. program.
 
Qualifying Examination

Written and oral, over concepts and research in toxicology.
 
Final Examination

Oral defense of dissertation.

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