The doctoral program in Therapeutic Sciences covers pharmacology, physiology, and biotechnology, as well as other fields that are part of the broader area of therapeutic sciences related to the discovery and development of novel therapeutics to treat and prevent disease. TSGP offers advanced training appropriate for academic and research careers in the fields of biology and medical sciences with a focus on determining disease mechanisms and drug actions, and developing novel therapies. The PhD program has been funded for many years in part by an NIH training grant (T32) through the NIGMS Program in Interdisciplinary Training in Pharmacological Sciences.

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All graduate student research is carried out in faculty research laboratories. In addition to all of the basic research equipment, tools, and facilities, major shared facilities include an electron microscope facility, which houses two high–resolution transmission electron microscopes and a scanning electron microscope; a professionally staffed animal–care facility fully equipped for animal maintenance, large animal surgery, and experimentation; an artificial–organ laboratory; an NMR facility with an 850 MHz (with cryogenic probe) spectrometer; a mouse transgenic and knockout core facility; a proteomics core facility including a Biacore T–100; and a molecular genetics core facility with the capacity to analyze gene–chips are available.