Applicants for the Ph.D. may choose among several specialty areas, which include medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, and drug metabolism. The pharmaceutical and pharmacological sciences uniquely encompass a wide variety of interrelated areas of science and technology. For example, students in medicinal chemistry are trained to combine knowledge in analytical/synthetic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and molecular modeling in the design of new drugs. Those who specialize in pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, and pharmacokinetics are trained to combine physicochemical methods, cellular and molecular biology, and drug metabolism in the design and evaluation of novel drug delivery systems and their pharmacodynamic and therapeutic effects.

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