The Biomedical Sciences (BMS) Ph.D. program is sponsored by UC San Diego Health Sciences. Our mission is to offer advanced and multidisciplinary training in basic and disease-oriented research. Our goal is to develop a diverse and highly trained biomedical workforce that will create new knowledge, solve problems and contribute to the health and well being of all mankind. The Molecular Pharmacology Training Area is organized through the Department of Pharmacology, a basic science department serving the School of Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS). The more than sixty BMS faculty with primary affiliations in this research area are largely those in Pharmacology and SSPPS but faculty from Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Neuroscience also choose Molecular Pharmacology as their primary training area. Pharmacological science, as broadly defined, is a discipline that investigates the effects of chemical interventions on biological systems. The Molecular Pharmacology program at UCSD is renowned for its strength in elucidating basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of Signal Transduction. A common interest is in identifying nodal points in signaling pathways that lend themselves to drug target identification and ultimately to therapeutic advances.