The program is designed to prepare the student for a competitive research and teaching career in pharmacology or physiology. A flexible, multidisciplinary basic sciences curriculum, combined with advanced pharmacology and physiology courses, provides the foundation of knowledge needed for subsequent research activities. Individual laboratory attention by the faculty allows the student to develop skills in experimental design, execution, and analysis; statistics; literature searching; grant writing; manuscript preparation; oral presentations; and laboratory management. The focus of the doctoral research may be tailored to the student's interests, goals, and abilities. The program typically requires four full years to complete.

The success of our CMPP program is evident by the excellence of our students. For example, David D. McKemy (graduate of 1998) published a first-author paper in Nature in 2002, and Scott A. Croes (graduate of 2007) was invited to give a scheduled talk at one of the prestigious Gordon Research Conferences in 2005.

Please visit the research page for more information regarding the research programs.