University of Maryland Baltimore

Program Information

Degree Offered

M.S. (thesis and non-thesis), Ph.D., MD/ PhD

Format: Campus

Program Description:

The Graduate Program in Toxicology provides educational and professional training in Molecular & Mechanistic Toxicology and Toxicology and Environmental Health. The Graduate Program in Toxicology is conducting cutting-edge research including: Mechanisms of Cell Injury Carcinogenesis Reproductive Toxicology Neurotoxicology Aquatic Toxicology Forensic & Analytical Toxicology Molecular Epidemiology Risk Assessment & Environmental Law Environmental Epidemiology & Toxicology.

Graduates of our Track in Molecular and Mechanistic Toxicology are prepared to conduct research in molecular mechanisms of cellular and organism responses to environmental and industrial chemicals, drugs and radiation; free radicals and associated diseases including cancer; and chemoprevention. An understanding of the role of environment-gene interactions in these diseases is a common goal of our program.

Graduates of our Track in Toxicology and Environmental Health are prepared to conduct basic and public health research, teach, and provide technical support to federal, state, and local governments, industry, and public interest groups in areas including the evaluation and testing of harmful effects of chemical, physical, and biological agents on living organisms; prevention of chemical induced diseases; chemical risk assessment; and environmental protection through governmental regulations for the control and monitoring of hazardous chemicals.

Our integrative, progressive curriculum is nationally recognized and our students' learning experiences and outcomes are enhanced by our use of technology. Currently we are engaged in an iPad pilot program that is helping to reshape the ways in which we communicate, collaborate and interact in the classroom.

Our student researchers have access to a faculty comprised of world renown researchers who's appointments stretch across all of the University of Maryland's departments in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and the many research centers and institutes on campus including the Center for Vaccine Development, the Institute for Genome Science and the Institute of Human Virology. Our unique, geographic proximity to the NIH, NSF, FDA, other government agencies and a thriving biotech corridor provides our student with networking, career development and collaborative opportunities that are found nowhere else.

Students accepted into any of the Graduate Program in Life Sciences' PhD programs receive financial support from NIH-funded training grants, mentor grants and/or from University of Maryland, Baltimore sources.

Currently, the stipend amount for 1st and 2nd year students is $26,000. That amount increases to $27,000 once a student passes his or her qualifying exam and advances to candidacy. This typically occurs before the start of a student's 3rd year.

Separate from the stipend support provided are the benefits of complete tuition remission and coverage of student health insurance. This benefit package represents a cash value of nearly $11,000.00 a year that is, again, provided in addition to the annual stipend.

Financial support is ensured for the duration of time required to complete the Ph.D., which typically takes 4 to 6 years.

We invite you to take some time to explore our websites, engage us with your questions and "ask around". You'll soon find out why our student researchers thrive in the lab, publish, obtain their own grants and go onto successful careers in research, government, pharma and bio-tech, consulting, R & D, scientific journalism and more.

Accreditation:

Middle States Commission on Higher Education

Eligibility Requirements:

Our most qualified applicants have socred above an 1100 on the GRE.

International Student Requirements:

TOEFL

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No

Classification: Doctoral/Research Universities - Intensive

Institution Sector: Public

Locale: Large City

Size & Settings: 5,000 - 9,999