TOXICOLOGY &
ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH

Stipends for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees are for two years (one-year, renewable pending satisfactory performance).

Predoctoral Trainees

• The Stipend is $28,224 per year
• Tuition and some fees are covered
• Travel allowance ($500) to a scientific meeting

Postdoctoral Trainees

• Travel allowance ($600) to a scientific meeting
• Subject to funding availability and current stipend scales as dictated by NIH.
• Stipends depend upon years of experience:
• 0 — $61,008
• 1 — $61,428
• 2 — $61,884
• 3 — $64,356
• 4 — $66,492
• 5 — $68,964
• 6 — $71,532
• 7 or more — $74,088

Core Course requirements for the Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology Program are flexible to accommodate the varied career goals of our students.

Three courses are required:

Interdisciplinary Toxicology Seminar

CB 596 (1 hr. every semester): Topics will vary each semester. Seminars are presented by faculty, visiting lecturers, and students based upon their study, research, and/or professional activities in the selected topic area. Same as ENVS 596, and PATH 596. See PATH 596. Offered Fall and Spring ever year.

Systems Toxicology

CB 554 (3 hrs.): This course is designed to provide an overview of the effects of chemicals and their mechanisms of action in a variety of organ systems. Topics include toxicology of the nervous, developmental, reproductive, thyroid, renal, hepatic, immune, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal system. Offered Spring of odd years.

Ethics in Toxicology

CB 552 (2 hrs.): Emphasis on ethical issues in the practice of toxicological research: collaboration, authorship and plagiarism, professional responsibility to subjects (both human and animal), whistle-blowing, codes of ethics, legal obligations. Featuring case studies. Offered Fall of even years.

Strongly suggested courses include the course selections below:

Biochemistry/Chemistry
(6 hours or 2 units) Specific courses will depend on requirements of advisor’s home department.

Biostatistics
(3 hours) Specific courses will depend on requirements of advisor’s home department.

Basic Toxicology
CB449, ENVS 480 (3 hours): Emphasis on physiology and biochemistry of intoxication; discusses the types of cellular response to toxic compounds and the role of species variation in toxic responses.

OTHER AVAILABLE COURSES IN TOXICOLOGY:

CB 551 – Ecotoxicology in the Northern Hemisphere, Offered each Fall semester
CB/ENVS 514 – Neurotoxicology, Offered Spring of odd years
CB/ENVS 516 – Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, Offered Spring of even years
CHLH 572 – Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health
CHLH 578 – Applied Epidemiology
CHLH 576  – Analytic Epidemiology
ENVS 469 – Environmental Health, Offered each Spring semester
ENVS 491 – Sustainability Experience
FSHN 575 – Issues in Food Safety
MCB 529 – Scientific Writing
NUTR 550 – Grantsmanship and Ethics
PATH548 – Toxicologic Pathology

You may learn more about each course through the University Course Catalog.