Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences - Biomedical Toxicology and Pharmacology

University of Guelph

Students may take an MSc degree in Biomedical Sciences with an emphasis on aspects of Reproductive Biology Developmental, Cell and Tissue Morphology and Biomedical ToxicologyPharmacology and Neuroscience. A number of choices are available for the thesis research project these may include molecular, cellular, immunological or developmental aspects of growth and differentiation, physiological, morphological or biomechanical investigations of normal function and disease processes in a variety of organs and tissues, or pharmacological mechanisms related to therapy and drug toxicology. There are two streams: a traditional two-year MSc thesis-based stream, and a one-year MBS stream that consists of course work and a research project. The primary research themes in these fields deal with clinical aspects of pharmacology and toxicology, in particular studies with domesticated and laboratory animals. Drugs used therapeutically, or chemicals encountered as environmental contaminants are studied using a range of in vitro and in vivo models systems.