Pharmacology
The Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona is comprised of faculty, fellows, students, and technical staff working together to understand human disease. Our mission is to provide quality preclinical and clinical education in pharmacology and therapeutics for medical students, to educate and train graduate and postdoctoral biomedical scientists, to carry out basic research of recognized excellence, and to participate in governance and leadership in the College of Medicine, The University of Arizona and in appropriate national scientific and professional societies.
Pharmacology is the science concerned with all aspects of the action of drugs and other chemicals on living systems. Its primary aim is the discovery of chemical mechanisms by which cellular and molecular functions are regulated for the purpose of understanding how existing drugs act and to develop new drugs for treatment and diagnosis of human diseases. The discipline of pharmacology explores biology through the actions of drugs and chemical substances. Drugs and chemicals produce their effects only through modification of underlying biological systems; their actions are useful in regulating not only normal functions of cells and organisms but also the abnormal processes which occur in disease.
The broad scope of interests of pharmacology ranges from the study of intermolecular reactions of chemical constituents of cells with drugs to the effects of drugs and established therapeutic agents on mammalian physiological organ systems. Professional pharmacologists tend toward careers in basic research and teaching in academia, research in pharmaceutical or biotech companies, research institutes, or government agencies. Our faculty are dedicated investigators pursuing questions of human disease by taking advantage of new knowledge in genomics, proteomics, cell and molecular biology, integrated systems and chemistry.
Department Head:
I. Glenn Sipes, PhD
Contact information:
Arizona Health Sciences Center
1501 N. Campbell Avenue
PO Box 245050
Tucson, Arizona 85724
Tel: 520/626-6400
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