The discipline of pharmacology explores the mechanisms by which drugs cause biological effects. In the broadest sense, pharmacology is the study of how chemical agents, both natural and synthetic (i.e., drugs) affect biological systems. Research of the members of the Pharmacology Track focuses in the areas of Neuropharmacology, Aging and Neurodegeneration, Autonomic and Endocrine Homeostasis and Cancer Biology and incorporates a wide array of state-of-the-art methodologies including molecular, electrophysiological, neurochemical, genetics, imaging and behavioral techniques. Pharmacology is often described as a bridge science because it incorporates knowledge and skills from a number of basic science disciplines, including physiology, biochemistry and cell and molecular biology. The interdisciplinary nature of the field offers pharmacologists a variety of research opportunities not found in other fields of scientific inquiry. It is this flexibility as well as the potential for the practical application of research (“translational research”) that attracts people into becoming pharmacologists. For more information, click here.
The track leaders, along with their contact information, are:
| Julie Hensler | hensler@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-4236 |
| William Clarke | clarkew@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-4171 |
