Welcome to the Department of Pharmacological Sciences

Our mission is to provide excellence in biomedical research, graduate and undergraduate education. Our faculty bring in more than $10 million annually in direct extramural support, and exciting findings are reported regularly in a host of premier journals.

PROGRAMS:

Our Ph.D. program in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology brings together gifted students, scientists and physicians from BNL, CSHL, and SBU striving to explore the biochemical and molecular biological mechanisms that regulate cell and organ function, and the design and development of effective pharmacological means to intervene in them when they are errant.

Our new M.S. program in Biomedical Science, track Pharmacology provides a sound scientific foundation for students pursuing careers in the academic, pharmaceutical, and government sectors.

Undergraduate Studies in Pharmacology As described above, the Department offers both a Masters and a federally-funded (NIH) PhD Program. Previously, we also offered a discrete undergraduate program in Pharmacology. That program was recently discontinued due to budgetary constraints, but two of the courses originally designed as the primary didactic offerings for our undergraduate program are now offered as BCP 401/HBH 501/HBH 631 and BCP 402/HBH 502/HBH 632. These courses, which are required for most first-year graduate students (both Masters and PhD), are open to upper-level undergraduates as BCP 401 & 402.

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Pharmacology Diversity Committee

NEWS:

In Memoriam: Arthur P. Grollman

Dr. Arthur P. Grollman, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacological Sciences, Evelyn G. Glick Professor of Experimental Medicine, and Director of the Zickler Laboratory of Chemical Biology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine—In 1974, Arthur P. Grollman was appointed Chairman (founding) of the Department of Pharmacological Sciences. Under his leadership, Pharmacological Sciences consistently ranked among the top Departments of Pharmacology in the United States.

Francis Johnson Lecture Highlights ‘Undruggable’ Cancer Target

In 1982, researchers discovered the first family of cancer-causing genes, which included the Kirsten rat sarcoma virus (KRAS), a gene that provides instructions for making a protein called K-Ras that relays signals from outside the cell to the cell’s nucleus. The KRAS gene is estimated to be a factor in up to 30 percent of all human cancers, including lung, pancreatic and colorectal cancer. At the time, the protein was deemed “undruggable.”

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