Research Oriented Curriculum
During your studies, you can work with our highly accomplished faculty at every stage of experimental, hands-on research; studying biological processes, modeling novel compounds, synthesizing these compounds and testing their effects.
We cultivate a positive, supportive academic environment that enables you to thrive.
Conducting lab research as an undergraduate lays the groundwork for a successful career in Pharmacology and Toxicology, Neuroscience and related fields in the Biomedical Sciences.
Our majors get hands-on research experience in PMY 409 (Experimental Pharmacology). We also offer lab research to majors and interested non-majors via PMY 498.
Our faculty has extraordinarily broad and diverse areas of research interest. These areas include neuropharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, hormone mechanisms, drug use and abuse, toxicology, biophysics and genetics of ion channels, pharmacogenomics & toxicogenomics, circadian rhythms, neuroscience, and cancer.
Our faculty take advantage of resources within and beyond our department to conduct wide ranging interdisciplinary collaborations using state-of-the art techniques.
There are 21 faculty members and approximately 20 adjunct faculty.
Please visit the Pharmacology and Toxicology department website for additional information about our faculty.
The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Introductory survey of the major drug groups commonly used in therapeutics. Presents the scientific bases of drug action and the utilization of their properties in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Content and instruction is largely directed toward students in biomedical and life sciences programs Students are expected to have significant exposure to the basic sciences of chemistry, biology and biochemistry and must have completed a human physiology course at least equivalent to PGY 300.
A unique laboratory course designed to instruct students in basic laboratory skills and provide instruction on the University's policies regarding Laboratory Safety, Animal Use, and Radiation Safety. This class will also give the students the opportunity to meet with graduate students and faculty members providing insight into their research experiences and learning about the opportunities that are available to them.
Explores principles of drug action on biological systems, action mechanism of each agent class on specific organ systems, a review and extension of pertinent physiologic concepts of that system, chemical structure-drug activity relationships, sites of action, metabolic patterns of principal drugs, and therapeutic and toxicologic aspects. Dual-listed with PMY 511.
Explores principles of drug action on biological systems, action mechanism of each agent class on specific organ systems, a review and extension of pertinent physiologic concepts of that system, chemical structure-drug activity relationships, sites of action, metabolic patterns of principal drugs, and therapeutic and toxicologic aspects. Dual-listed with PMY 512.
This advanced level undergraduate course will provide an overview of special topics relating to the fields of pharmacology and neuroscience. This course will allow instructors to introduce a variety of contemporary and cutting edge ideas to students.
PMY students only Applies principles of pharmacology and toxicology in a lab course, which includes in vivo and in vitro techniques, including: assessing the duration of drug action in a rat model, preparing subcellular fractions of liver, quantifying total protein, cytochrome P450 (CYP) protein content and activity, CYP2B1/2 protein and mRNA, biochemical and morphological assessment of liver injury, training in the proper care and use of lab animals and radiation safety. The course will provide the students with basic laboratory techniques commonly utilized in research and experience with writing two detailed lab reports which follow the format used in scientific journals.
Introduces students to the basic principles of toxicology. Toxicology is defined as the study of adverse effects of natural compounds or manmade chemicals on living organisms. Specific areas covered will include: the history of toxicology, general principles, chemical carcinogenesis, specific organ toxicology and ways to determine the risk to humans associated with toxic compounds. Uses innovative approaches to teach toxicology by utilizing real life examples and historical information of mass poisonings from natural or environmental disasters. Introduces the student to general principles and practices of toxicology.
Direct involvement in original research involving a literature search and laboratory work.
Direct involvement in original research involving a literature search and laboratory work.
Involves a literature search and library work on a current topic in pharmacology or toxicology. Includes interdisciplinary projects, such as analyses of trends in drug use, toxicological projects, and applied clinical aspects.