Master in Toxicology


The master curriculum will last 3 semesters (90 credit points) and will include a semester of lectures, seminars and courses, a practical work in the pharmaceutical Industry for 7 weeks (15 credit points) and a master thesis in a toxicological laboratory in the pharmaceutical Industry or in an University facility included in the SCAHT network over 9 months (45 credit points including report and defense of the thesis). Students with a bachelor degree in biology, biochemistry, pharmacy or medicine will qualify for this master curriculum. The teaching part (first semester of the master curriculum) will be composed, among others, of lectures, seminars and courses in biotransformation and xenobiotic metabolism, pharmaco- and toxicogenetics, pharmacology of the most important drugs and drug classes, toxicology of drugs and chemicals, mechanisms of toxicity, organ-specific toxicology, role of pharmacology and toxicology in preclinical and clinical drug development, toxicological and pharmacological methods (e.g. cell and tissue cultures, cytotoxicity, molecular methods) and regulatory toxicology. The courses and lectures in toxicology will be given by representatives of the “pharmacenter”, a center of competence of the University of Basel including all disciplines involved in teaching and/or research in pharmacology and toxicology. The first master course will start at the beginning of the autumn semester in 2011. There will be a close collaboration between the Universities of Basel and Geneva/Lausanne.



Course Subjects & Teachers

Core Presentations (Obligatory)

Lecture/Seminar

Responsible

Credit points

Remarks

Lecture: Pathobiology

A. Eberle

2

Existing

Lecture: Introduction into Pharmacology**

J. Drewe

2

Existing

Lecture: Clinical Toxicology

M. Bodmer

1

Existing

Lecture: Environmental toxicology

K. Fent

2

Existing

Lecture: Carcinogenesis: reasons and mechanisms

C. Sengstag

1

Existing

Lecture: Organ-directed toxicity

J. Drewe

1

Existing

Lecture: Toxic agents

S. Krähenbühl

1

Existing

Lecture: Mechanisms of toxicity

S. Krähenbühl

1

Existing

Lecture: Immunological and skin toxicology

A. Bircher

1

Existing

Lecture: Systemic and and cellular pharmaco- and toxicokinetics

J. Drewe and J. Huwyler

1

Existing

Lecture: Regulatory toxicology

B. Schmid

1

Existing

Lecture: Pharmacogenetics and toxicogenetics

J. Gut

1

Planned

Lecture/seminar: Toxicology in drug development and first entry into man

P. Müller

1

Planned

Lecture/seminar: Animal models in pharmacology and toxicology

A. Odermatt

2

Existing

Seminar: Seminars in toxicology

A. Odermatt

2

Existing

Seminar: Seminars on Drug Discovery and Development

M. Hamburger

1

Existing

Practical work: Pharmacology/Toxicology/Clinical Chemistry

S. Krähenbühl

3

Existing

 

Mantle Presentations (Facultative)

Lecture: Clinical Chemistry

S. Krähenbühl

1

Existing

Lecture: Genetic Approaches in Molecular Biomedical Research
1 KP

R. Lindberg Gasser

1

Existing

Lecture: Modeling adverse effects triggered by drugs and chemicals

A. Vedani

1

Existing

Lecture: Toxicology in pathology

L. Terracciano

1

Planned

Lecture: Stem cells in research

C. De Geyter

1

Planned

Lecture: Molecular Medicine

M. Heim

2

Existing

Lecture: Biogenic poisons and poison producing organisms

M. Hamburger

2

Existing

Lecture: Pharmacoepidemiology

C. Meier

2

Existing

** Not for students holding a Bachelor in medicine or pharmacy

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