Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology
The faculty of the The Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology teach required and elective courses in both pharmacology and toxicology in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program. These courses are of a highly clinical nature. Also, they provide a range of graduate courses including those on the fate of xenobiotics in animal systems, environmental toxicology, regulatory pharmacology and toxicology, analytical pharmacology and toxicology, developmental toxicology, and neurotoxicology.
Division faculty offer a Residency Program in Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. In addition, the Division in conjunction with the College's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the nearby allied agency, the ASPCA National Animal Poison Control Center, is the home of the Residency Program in Clinical and Diagnostic Veterinary Toxicology. In addition, the Division is the home of the Envirovet Program in Wildlife and Ecosystem Health that offers intensive extramural shortcourses.
Research by Division faculty focuses on a range of drugs and environmental contaminants, and encompasses species from human beings and laboratory rodents to amphibians and other wildlife species. Residues and population pharmacokinetics/toxicokinetics, endocrine disruptors, and ecological toxicology are areas of emphasis in the interdisciplinary programs of the faculty.
Studies by Division faculty are supported by the US EPA, the Department of Defense, NIH, USDA, C-FAR and a variety of local and private sources. Currently funded projects include studies on the development of alternatives to intact animal toxicology testing including the production of artificial corneas, the population kinetics of antibiotics in milk, risk assessments of environmental contaminants including blue-green algal toxins, the causes of mass die-offs in flamingos in East Africa, the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on development and on processes of aging, and the effects of endocrine disruptors and other stressors on amphibians in pond ecosystems.
For further information about the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology
contact:
Dr. Sue Schantz , Divison Chair.