Pharmacology and Toxicology are biomedical sciences which study how to develop safe, effective drugs and prevent the harmful effects of chemicals. Pharmacology focuses on the way drugs interact with various living systems that includes the properties, effects, and mechanisms of drug action. Toxicology focuses on the interaction of toxic compounds in the body that includes exposure assessment, dose response assessment, and hazard identification.
Career Opportunities: This major prepares students to work as a pharmacologist and toxicologist in the biomedical industry, pharmaceutical industry, nutritional industries, environmental conservation and pollution control, scientific civil service, governmental agencies, forensic sciences, and research institutes. Graduates can also work as sales representatives or move on to graduate studies in the field, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and in most biomedical fields.
Salary: Starting salaries generally range between $30,000 to $50,000 depending on career path and qualifications of the applicants.
PTOX Professional Division Curriculum
| P1 Year |
| Fall Semester |
| MBC | 3310 | Medicinal Chemistry I | 2 |
| MBC | 3330 | Applied Drug Design | 1 |
| PHCL | 3700 | Pharmacology I | 3 |
| MBC | 3550 | Physiological Chemistry I | 3 |
| PHCL | 4730 | Toxicology I | 3 |
| Major Electives (Recommend BIOL 3010&3020)1 | 5-6 |
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| Spring Semester |
| MBC | 3320 | Medicinal Chemistry II | 3 |
| PHCL | 3720 | Pharmacology II | 3 |
| MBC | 3560 | Physiological Chemistry II | 3 |
| PHCL | 3810 | Pharmacology & Toxicology Lab2 | 1 |
| PHCL | 4750 | Toxicology II | 3 |
| UT Core Requirement (Diversity Studies)* | 3 |
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P2 Year |
| Fall Semester |
| PHCL | 4700 | Pharmacology III | 3 |
| MBC | 4710 | Targeted Drug Design or |
| MBC | 4720 | Advances in Drug Design | 3 |
| Major Elective1 | 3 |
| Major Elective1 | 3 |
| Major Elective1 | 3 |
| Major Elective1 | 3 |
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| Spring Semester |
| PHCL | 4780 | Practicum in PTOX3 | 6-12 |
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1 To be chosen with faculty adviser from the Elective List.
2 Required for practicum and only offered in spring.
3 If the practicum is completed in the summer before the P2 Year, student can graduate a semester earlier.
* Suggested sequence, if UT Core Requirements have not been completed.
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PTOX Electives
A total of 18 hours of course work must be selected from the list of elective courses below. Other electives require approval of the PTOX adviser.
| BIOL | 3010 | Molecular Genetics | 3 |
| BIOL | 3020 | Molecular Genetics - Lab | 2 |
| BIOL | 3030 | Cell Biology | 3 |
| BIOL | 3040 | Cell Biology Lab | 2 |
| BIOL | 4010 | Molecular Biology | 3 |
| BIOL | 4030 | Microbiology | 3 |
| BIOL | 4050 | Immunology | 3 |
| BIOL | 4110 | Human Genetics | 3 |
| BIOL | 4330 | Parasitology | 3 |
| CHEM | 3310 | Analytical Chemistry Lecture | 2 |
| CHEM | 3360 | Analytical Chemistry Lab | 2 |
| CHEM | 3710 | Physical Chemistry for the Biosciences I | 3 |
| CHEM | 3720 | Physical Chemistry for the Biosciences II | 3 |
| CHEM | 3730 | Physical Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHEM | 3740 | Physical Chemistry II | 3 |
| CHEM | 4300 | Instrumental Analysis | 2 |
| CHEM | 4880 | Advanced Laboratory III | 2 |
| MATH | 2600 | Introduction to Statistics | 3 |
| MBC | 3800 | Microbiology & Immunology | 3 |
| MBC | 4300 | Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy | 2 |
| MBC | 4340 | Contemporary Natural Remedies | 2 |
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| MBC | 4470 | Advanced Immunotherapeutics | 2 |
| MBC | 4710 | Targeted Drug Design | 3 |
| MBC | 4720 | Advances in Drug Design | 3 |
| MBC | 4880 | Medicinal Biotech Lab | 1-10 |
| MBC | 4980 | Special Topics in Drug Design | 1-4 |
| PHCL | 4140 | Interpretation of Pharmaceutical Data | 3 |
| PHCL | 4150 | Biopharmaceutics/Pharmacokinetics | 4 |
| PHCL | 4300 | Selected Topics in Pharmacology | 2 |
| PHCL | 4630 | Cancer Biology & Chemotherapy | 3 |
| PHCL | 4710 | Pharmacology - Toxicology Seminar | 3 |
| PHCL | 4720 | Pharmacology IV - Chemotherapeutic Agents | 3 |
| PHCL | 4730 | Toxicology I | 3 |
| PHCL | 4750 | Toxicology II | 3 |
| PHCL | 4760 | Toxicokinetics | 3 |
| PHCL | 4770 | Toxicological Risk Assessment | 3 |
| PHCL | 4800 | Human-Xenobiotic Interctions | 3 |
| PHCL | 4850 | Drug Disposition | 2 |
| PHCL | 4900 | Hnrs Seminar Pharmacology/Toxicology | 3 |
| PHCL | 4910 | Problems in Pharmacology/Toxicology | 1-3 |
| PHCL | 4960 | Honors Thesis Pharmacology/Toxicology | 5 |
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