USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Master in Scienze Farmaceutiche

Requirements for Degree Completion

Units Required

Per la laurea sono richiesti almeno 24 unità di corsi (vedi Offerta Corsi di seguito) e 28 unità totali. Tutti gli studenti partecipano a 12 unità o curriculum del corso di base (PSCI 501-503) più un 4Gli studenti nel percorso di tesi prendono 4 delle unità in 594A e 594B (tesi di laurea magistrale). Il curriculum di base enfatizza la scoperta di farmaci, la somministrazione di farmaci e la farmacologia molecolare.

Research

Research can be initiated at any point in the program. Students selecting the non-research master’s track may elect and are encouraged to carry out research in their program.

Thesis/Dissertation

Students may choose between two tracks to complete the Master of Science degree. First, the research track requires that the student carry out a research project during their program. As noted above, research towards the thesis can be begun at any point, though typically this begins during the first semester. The thesis should be about 50 pages.

Second, the non-research, non-thesis Master’s track requires that the student complete 28 units of coursework. Several options regarding the nature and scope of coursework are available.

Course Offerings

Graduate students are expected to possess knowledge in various areas of pharmaceutical sciences. The following are graduate courses offered by the program (some courses are not offered every year):

• PSCI 501, Drugs: Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion
• PSCI 502, Drugs: Principles of Therapeutic Mechanisms
• PSCI 503, Drugs: Principles of Research Methodology
• MPTX 510, The Other Side of Drugs
• PSCI 513, Drugs: Biologics and Specialty Pharmaceutics
• PSCI 515, Drugs: Pharmacogenetics
• PSCI 517, Protein Engineering and Drug Discovery
• MPTX 520, Drugs in the Media
• PSCI 557, Introduction to Tools and Techniques for Chemical Biology
• PSCI 655, Immunopharmaceutics
• PSCI 662, Advanced Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics
• PSCI 664, Drug Discovery and Design
• PSCI 665, Drug Transport and Delivery
• PSCI 666, Molecular Structural Biology
• PSCI 667, Intracellular Drug Delivery and Targeting
• PSCI 671, Drug Metabolism (Morphology)

The following are graduate courses offered in Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology:

• MPTX 500, Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Signaling
• MPTX 501, Toxicology of Oxidants and Free Radicals
• MPTX 602, Sciences, Research and Ethics