This program may be started at any campus and is completed at Penn State University Park.
This discipline uses cutting-edge biotechnological techniques to gain insight into how chemicals affect the health of humans and animals at the molecular level - either adversely, as toxic agents, or beneficially, as therapeutic agents. In this program, you can learn about how drugs and toxicants act on organic systems of the body; general principles for assessing the safety of chemicals and therapeutic efficacy of drugs; and state-of-the-art molecular, biological, and genetic approaches to understanding drugs, toxicants, and disease through a combination of laboratory and lecture experiences. Toxicology graduates can acquire a strong foundation for graduate work in most biomedical fields, including pharmacology, toxicology, biochemistry, physicology, pathobiology, oncology, or molecular biology. This major also can prepare graduate for employment as research technicians, drug/toxicant specialists, or pharmaceutical sales representatives.
The B.S. in Toxicology is offered by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
Read more about high school course requirements. This major has no transfer requirements specific to the major.
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