Pharmacognosy

The Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy (MCP) in the College of Pharmacy offers a program of study leading to degrees in Pharmacognosy at the doctoral (primarily) and master's levels. Major research areas concern the isolation, structure elucidation, and biological assessment of natural products; plant and microbial constituents from terrestrial and marine sources, having biological activity; the use and conservation of plants employed in traditional medicine; the fundamental mechanisms of biological activity of potential drugs and their targets both in vitro and in vivo; structure and function of cellular enzymes, microbial genomics; and drug discovery. Pharmacognosy participates in a joint PharmD/PhD program; see the Joint PharmD/PhD (http:// catalog.uic.edu/gcat/colleges-schools/pharmacy/pharmd-phd) section of the catalog for more information. In parallel to but separately from the pharmacognosy graduate program, MCP also offers work leading to graduate degrees in Medicinal Chemistry; consult the Medicinal Chemistry (http://catalog.uic.edu/gcat/colleges-schools/pharmacy/mdch) section of the catalog for more information. Applicants should apply to their specific program of choice within MCP and are encouraged to contact the program for clarification.