Welcome to the Department of Pharmacology, to a program that combines an interdisciplinary core curriculum, advanced coursework and original research, and is designed to give students a broad interdisciplinary base and flexibility. Research training is offered in each of six formal advanced programs organized around traditional disciplines basic to medicine: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, or Physiology, and in the interdisciplinary Cancer Biology Program. There are also a number of research focus areas shared among the graduate faculty in the College of Medicine.