This training program is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and is designed to bring together students and graduate faculty from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Smithville, Texas. Collaboration between these two institutes is essential to the program in that it provides greater diversity in research and training opportunities while serving to fulfill two major goals of the training program:

1. to ensure our trainees the highest quality in all aspects of our program (courses, research training, personal mentorship, seminars, etc.).
2. to increase the number of highly trained minorities pursuing careers in toxicology.

The outstanding training faculty represents a variety of scientific disciplines: pharmacology, toxicology, medicinal chemistry, experimental carcinogenesis, nutrition, and zoology. The research interests of the training faculty primarily focus on the mechanisms of organ-specific toxicity of xenobiotics. Specific research interests can be found on the training faculty pages.

The TTG has provided support for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows since 1990, with an emphasis being placed on predoctoral training in 2003. This training grant is in support of a program promoting excellence in the toxicological sciences, focusing on training in molecular toxicology and environmental disease. An important element in our program is the training of predoctoral fellows who are actively recruited by colleagues from around the nation. Although each trainee selects from a wide variety of ongoing research programs, and works primarily in the laboratory of one of the training faculty, the training program promotes and supports collaborative research among the different departments represented by the training faculty.

See also:
Program Trainees
Areas of Study (TTG Faculty)
Toxicology Seminars