Toxicology Research

Programs that conduct research which focuses on poisons and other biohazards; interactions with organisms and their food and respiratory systems; and prevention, management and counteraction. Included are the study of toxicological biochemistry, toxic agents and transporters, toxin fate, toxicokinetics and metabolism, toxin classification, molecular toxic mechanisms, extracellular matrices and cell function, bacterial pathogenesis and mutagenesis, pathophysiology and apoptosis, cell stress and injury, studies of specific toxins and studies of specific organ systems and physiological functions in relation to toxicological problems.