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The Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology offers an opportunity
for gifted students, basic and clinical scientists to fulfill a vision together
in exploring the molecular and biological mechanisms that regulate cellular
and organ functions, in identifying and understanding the molecular errors
of disease, and in developing the pharmacological means to correct these
errors. Remarkable scientific discoveries and astonishing technological
innovations are occurring as biological, physical, engineering and clinical
sciences come together to explore both the mechanisms by which cells are
programmed from the genome to construct protein based cell circuits and
the functions they perform, as well as the inter-cellular networks that
form organ systems and the whole organism. This systems biology view of
biological organization and function also contains the framework for the
processes by which cells are re-programmed to gain and lose functions in
the developmental processes of disease. This combination of new perspectives,
new technologies and new scientific discoveries is having a tremendous impact
on the way we think about and perform science today, and will have an even
greater impact on biology and medicine in the future. |