School of Medicine

Departmental E-mail:  PHTXinfo@iu.edu

Departmental URL: medicine.iu.edu/pharmacology-toxicology

(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
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Special Departmental Requirements

(See also general University Graduate School requirements.) 

Admission Requirements - Doctor of Philosophy Degrees

Pharmacology and Toxicology Ph.D. programs participate in an “open enrollment” system named The Indiana University School of Medicine BioMedical Gateway (IBMG) Program. The IBMG Program provides a shared first year experience for all of the School of Medicine biomedical science pre-doctoral (Ph.D. program) students. The link for the IBMG program is: https://medicine.iu.edu/graduate-degrees/phd/indianapolis.

Admission Requirements - Master of Science Pharmacology or Toxicology Degrees

We accept MS of Pharmacology or Toxicology students on a very limited basis. These degree offerings are mostly reserved for students who have started on the PhD course of study and who, for a variety of reasons, find they must end their studies before they complete their Doctorate.

Students desiring an MS of Pharmacology or Toxicology must first find a faculty member in the Department who is willing to act as mentor and provide financial support. Only after the student obtains this consent from a faculty member in the department would the student’s application be evaluated.

Guidelines for admissions into the Pharmacology and Toxicology MS programs:

GRE:  >30% percentile on the Verbal Reasoning section

           >50% percentile on the Quantitative Reasoning section

GPA:  >3.2/4.0 in core science courses

English proficiency:  TOEFL: >620 paper; >260 computer; >105 internet test; IELTS:  >7.5

The student is responsible for contacting directly a faculty member s/he is interested in working with to arrange the research prior to submitting an application to the program. If an arrangement for master’s-level training and support is secured, the faculty member must notify the Graduate Advisor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. At that point, special arrangements would be made to evaluate the student’s application to start the degree in the following fall semester.

Admission Requirements – Master of Science of Translational Toxicology

This is a one-year non-thesis based graduate program which includes a ten week internship providing students with first-hand experience in toxicology careers. Further information about the program can be found at https://medicine.iu.edu/pharmacology-toxicology/education/ms Guidelines for admissions to the MS in Translational Toxicology include:

• Personal statement indicating the applicant’s interest
• Educational documents including college transcript(s), degree certificates, marksheets (if applicable) and diploma
• GRE or other professional scores (ex., MCAT, DAT, LSAT, etc.) if applicable. Applicants who have earned a cumulative undergraduate GPA of below 3.0 should submit GRE scores or other professional tests from within the past five years. These tests are not required of applicants who have a graduate or professional degree from a US college or university.
• TOEFL or IELTS scores for non-native English speakers.
• Three letters of recommendation from professors and other academics or employers who can assess the applicant’s educational preparation and suitability for graduate study.

Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Student Advisor

(317) 274-1562

Jennelle Durnett Richardson, Ph.D., A418J VanNuys Medical Sciences Building, jdrichar@iu.edu

Degrees Offered

Doctor of Philosophy Degrees

Course Requirements

All Pharmacology and Toxicology Ph.D. students are required to take 28 hours of coursework (of that 6 hours will be rotations); an additional 62 hours will be research and seminar, for a total of 90 hours. Other requirements for completing the Ph.D. program are (1) publishing at least one first-author original research paper, 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 second research paper or review article, and (c) presenting an abstract at national or international meeting.

Minor

Students generally minor in life sciences, but have the option to minor in any program approved by the IUSM Graduate Office. Students should con­sult the Graduate Student Advisor in planning their program to ensure all major and minor requirements are met.

Research Committee

The student chooses a research committee with approval by the program director upon declaring Pharmacology as their Ph.D. program.

Qualifying Examination

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

Oral defense of dissertation.

Master of Science Degrees

Master of Science Degree in Pharmacology or Toxicology

Course Requirements

A minimum of 30 hours is required to fulfill the graduate requirements for a Master of Science degree.  All M.S. students will be required to take a minimum of 15 hours of coursework (of that 4 hours will be research course F812 in the first year), and a minimum of additional 15 hours of research and seminar. 
 
Thesis

Required.

Final Examination

Not applicable.

Master of Science track in Translational Toxicology

Course Requirements

A minimum of 30 hours is required to fulfill the graduate requirement for the accelerate program of a Master of Science in Translational Toxicology. All students will be required to take 14 hours of Foundational courses, 13 hours of Specialization Core courses (in which one will be an eight hour summer internship (F807), and a minimum of three credits of electives. All course work should be complete during the year long program.

Minor

Not required

Advisory Committee

Not required