The Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience is dedicated to quality biomedical research and graduate education. Research Assistantships are provided for all doctoral students. The Graduate Biomedical Science Program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center is a recipient of the residential Award for Science Mentoring from the National Science Foundation.
The Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience has a strong focus on excellence in research with $7 million dollars in grant funding this year in the areas of aging, substance abuse, receptor pharmacology (signal transduction and molecular mechanisms) and vision science/ocular pharmacology.