UW Pharmacology Graduate Program Overview
Pharmacology explores the nature of interactions between drugs and biological systems, and their applications to the treatment of disease. Courses in
OVERVIEW
Pharmacology Graduate Program Overview
Pharmacology explores the nature of interactions between drugs and biological systems, and their applications to the treatment of disease. Courses in this field are offered to graduate, medical, dental, pharmacy, nursing, and other interested UW students.
The Department of Pharmacology offers the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.
Admissions Requirement
GRE Scores are not required.
A baccalaureate degree with a major in any of the sciences, such as biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacy, physics, physiology, psychology, or zoology, is strongly advised. Students are selected from the applicant pool based on several criteria, including academic performance, letters of recommendation, and previous research experience.
Graduation Requirements
Minimum of 90 credits, to include:
- Pharmacology 501-506 course series with a minimum grade of 2.7 for each course.
- Pharmacology 507 throughout graduate school (must attend 5 seminars).
- Pharmacology 514 in the first and second years of graduate study.
- Pharmacology 519 (laboratory rotations) during the first year of graduate study.
- Enrollment in 3 Advanced graded courses. (Minimum of one course must be offered by the Pharmacology department.)
- CONJ 531 (Signaling Mechanisms in Excitable Cells)
- One Quantitative Analysis course.
- Creditable passage of the General Examination. Thesis research beginning the second and subsequent years of study.
- Completion of an approved PhD dissertation and creditable passage of the Final Examination, which is the defense of the dissertation.
Time to Doctoral Degree
The Graduate Program in the Pharmacology Department is designed to provide the guidance and mentoring necessary for graduate students to finish all course requirements and complete and defend their thesis research within a period of 6 years from matriculation. In the Winter quarter (Year 2) after entering their thesis lab, students will form and convene their Doctoral Thesis Supervisory Committee to review their progress in preparation for the general exam.
Following completion of the general exam, students are required to meet with their Doctoral Thesis Supervisory Committee at least once every 12 months. The committee and the student develop a definite plan of action for achieving specific goals, which will be summarized in the annual thesis committee report. Stipend and tuition support extending beyond year 6 are dependent on Thesis Committee approval and the advisor’s research funding or appropriate training grant support.
Financial Support
Financial support is offered to students who maintain satisfactory academic progress. Tuition and stipends are provided by National Institutes of Health training grants, University of Washington teaching assistantships, individual research grants, and fellowships from private sources.
Contact
Debbie Bale
Box 357750
(206) 543-7485
phcoladm@uw.edu