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Program Overview
Mission
The Therapeutics Graduate Program (TGP) provides students with the scientific, laboratory, computational, and professional skills needed to excel in academic and biopharmaceutical careers. We strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and engaged community of students and faculty with shared interests in therapeutics, and provide a collaborative, respectful, and stimulating environment. TGP offers rigorous multidisciplinary training in the sciences relevant to therapeutics discovery, development, and applications to improve the treatment of disease. We provide students with hands-on experiences and networking opportunities that will open fulfilling careers and leadership trajectories in the field of therapeutics.
Objectives
- Create a diverse and inclusive community
- Link training to real-world experiences/internship
- Develop professional and career skills
- Enhance research rigor and reproducibility
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Teach core concepts in therapeutics:
- Drug action and mechanism
- Target identification and validation
- Pharmacodynamics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Toxicity/adverse events
- Regulatory sciences
