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    Nov 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Augusta University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Augusta University Catalog

Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Pharmacology


Program Overview

In Pharmacology & Toxicology, biology is queried to identify targets, drugs, and off-target toxicities to improve human health and combat disease. The faculty biology research interests are wide-ranging from cardiovascular to nervous systems.  In these systems, the faculty study how healthy biology devolves into disease through conditions of aging, neurotoxin/alcohol exposure, hemorrhagic injury, cardiovascular/pulmonary disease, and cognitive function/decline. The molecular targets studied include G protein/cAMP signaling, circadian clocks, lnRNA, and transcription factors that are applied in cell, mouse, and primate systems. Courses of study are designed to meet the needs of individual students as applied to the pharmacologic discipline. Graduates have had successful employment in academics (research/teaching), pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, and the private sector.

augusta.edu/gradschool/biomed/phd-pharm.php

augusta.edu/mcg/phmtox/graduateprogram.php

Program Contact

Dan Rudic, PhD
706-721-2346
rrudic@augusta.edu

Progression and Graduation Requirements

  • Students are admitted via a common admissions process to the Biomedical Sciences PhD program, not to a specific biomedical major. After completing the first-year common core course work and laboratory rotations, students choose a dissertation research mentor and enter one of nine Doctor of Philosophy majors.
  • The Doctor of Philosophy curriculum is not lock-step; students do not graduate as a class at the end of a specific semester. The average time to degree is approximately five years of full-time, year-round study; acceptable duration of the program is a minimum of three and maximum of seven years. The number and type of advanced (2nd year and beyond) or elective courses vary, and may include courses within the pharmacology program as well as courses in other disciplines.
  • In addition to specific course requirements, students must complete additional PhD degree requirements, including annual advisory committee meetings, individual development plans (IDP’s) satisfactory performance on the comprehensive examination, development and approval of a research proposal, writing and approval of the doctoral dissertation, and satisfactory performance on the final oral examination (dissertation defense). See PhD Student Guide for additional requirements and details.

Program Information

  • Program Length: Maximum of 7 Years
  • CIP Code: 26.1001
  • Program Code: DPHIL_PHAR
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Major Courses:


Electives: 8 Hours


Total Hours for the Degree: 114-252 Hours