Pharmacology and Neuroscience

Welcome to the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at UNT Health Fort Worth’s College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences. The department is committed to excellence in research, education and service and is the home to the Training Grant in the Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease.

Research

The Pharmacology and Neuroscience faculty maintain active research programs in the following areas:

  • Aging and Alzheimer’s disease
  • Drug discovery
  • Glaucoma and ocular pharmacology
  • Stroke
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Learning and memory
  • Neurobiology of drug and alcohol abuse
  • Neuronal degeneration and protection
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Pharmacogenetics
  • Receptors and ion channels

Our research mission is supported with millions in federal grant funding as well as funding from foundations and supported by a state-of-the-art preclinical behavioral facility. Our faculty are highly collaborative and the department foster a collegial environment in which faculty, trainees and staff strive to discover treatment and prevention strategies to improve lives.

Graduate Programs

The department provides high quality graduate training for students through two graduate programs: Pharmacology and Neuroscience and Visual Sciences. Students will be exposed to numerous advanced elective courses that are related to their individual research interests, seminars and networking, work-in-progress presentations and group discussions of current research topics, and will be trained in a number of techniques required to address existing research problems in the field. Students will be well prepared for careers in academic or government research laboratories, as well as in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry and education.