Research and Graduate Education
Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences
The Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical & Pharmacological Sciences offers interdisciplinary biomedical research training leading to the Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. degrees.
Research interests are complementary to a focus on drug discovery and development.
- Drug discovery science
- In silico drug design
- Medicinal chemistry
- Bioanalytical chemistry
- Drug metabolism
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Enzyme structure-activity relationships
- Toxicology mechanisms
- Drug delivery
- Formulation
- Drug transport mechanisms
- Nanopharmaceutics
- Polymer-based drug delivery
- Molecular therapeutics
- Drug target identification and validation
- Nucleic acid-based therapeutics
- Protein-based therapeutics
- Phosphodiesterase inhibitors
- Pharmacology
- Cardiovascular pharmacology
- Pulmonary pharmacology
- Neuropharmacology (blood brain barrier)
- Toxicology
- Drug-induced adverse effects
- Free radical toxicology and carcinogenesis
- Pulmonary toxicology
- Drug interactions
- Translational research
- Pre-clinical and clinical testing
- Cancer nanotechnology
- Pharmaceutical technology and processes
- Structural (computer) modeling
- Depression and mechanisms of action of psychotherapeutic drugs
The Computational Chemistry Molecular Modeling (CCMM) Laboratory is a focal point for drug discovery at WVU.
More information about the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical & Pharmacological Sciences can be obtained at: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/sop/graduate_programs/phd_specializations.html
Peter Gannett, Ph.D., Graduate Director
Email: pgannett@hsc.wvu.edu
(304) 293-1480 |
