The Interdisciplinary Faculty of Toxicology (IFT) graduate program at Texas A&M University has a more than 30-year history of training. MS and PhD degrees have been awarded to more than 260 students, and more than 150 postdoctoral fellows have trained in toxicology in the laboratories of the program’s faculty.
The breadth of disciplines accessible to our trainees has always been a strength of the program. Faculty from 16 departments and seven colleges at Texas A&M University and three associated laboratories/state agencies are members.
Our goal remains to prepare trainees to function as independent researchers and/or practitioners in a multidisciplinary setting, by providing training in mechanistic research and risk assessment with a focus on scientifically sound, risk-based regulatory evaluations of the effects of drugs and other chemicals on human health and the environment.
Application Deadline: March 1
Program Link: toxicology.tamu.edu/
Mentor Selection: Most domestic students are funded in their first year to enable them to perform semester-long rotations with different program faculty. Foreign students must secure funding from one or more of the faculty members before they are accepted into the program. We encourage both applicants and accepted students to contact faculty of their interest directly to inquire about the possibility to perform graduate research in their laboratory.
Unique Offerings: The Toxicology Program includes faculty from 16 departments and seven colleges/schools at Texas A&M University and three associated laboratories/state agencies are members. The breadth of scientific areas offered by our faculty is making the program uniquely interdisciplinary. A distinctive feature of the program is a strongly encouraged hands-on summer externship (typically taken between 1st and 2nd year in the program) through a broad and diverse network of state and federal governmental, regulatory agencies, as well as industry and non-governmental organizations. In addition to a rigorous core curriculum that includes courses in toxicology, risk assessment, histology, pharmacology, exposure science and other relate disciplines, we also offer a series of special programs in the form of boot camps and workshops on a wide range of topics (scientific writing, presentation, interview skills, disaster research response, and bioinformatics/data science).
