Pharmacology Schools

By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: March, 1 2010

The American Board of Clinical Pharmacology (ABCP) has accredited seven clinical pharmacology programs, as well as another 10 institutions in the U.S. that offer clinical pharmacology postdoctoral research training. According to the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology in Graz, Austria, there are 1039 pharmacology schools from 99 countries on the planet. North America is host to dozens upon dozens of these departments. Mexico has 3 and Canada has 16 pharmacology departments. The United States features 169 such departments, sections and divisions that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in pharmacology.

Some of these pharmacology schools focus exclusively on pharmacology, while others combine multiple disciplines and specialties into a department. Some examples are listed below.

• pharmacology and therapeutics
• Pharmacology and experimental therapeutics
• pharmacology and physiology
• pharmacology and toxicology
• molecular pharmacology and biological chemistry
• medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology
• pharmacology and neuroscience
• pharmacology and cancer biology
• cellular and molecular pharmacology
• pharmacology and cell biophysics
• integrative biology and pharmacology
• veterinary biosciences
• veterinary physiology and pharmacology
• molecular pharmacology and biotechnology
• pharmacoepidemiology
• Immunopharmacology and targeted therapy
• Clinical pharmacology and hypertension
• Veterinary and comparative anatomy, pharmacology and physiology
• Biomedical and therapeutical sciences