Program Description

The thirty faculty of our interdepartmental PhD in Molecular Toxicology Program come from sixteen different departments in the School of Medicine, the Fielding School of Public Health, and the College of Letters and Science at UCLA. Members of our faculty also participate in the activities of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the California Nanosystems Institute. Areas of particular strength in our program include chemical carcinogenesis, repair of DNA damage, air pollution toxicology, nanotoxicology, and the environmental causation of Parkinson's disease. The program is supported by a training grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Our program is now in its twenty-first year.

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      Application Info

Application Deadline: December 1, 2023

Where to Apply: For more information, see our ​Prospective Students page, or click here to apply.

Funding:  The Molecular Toxicology program has an NIH (NIEHS) training grant which supports both doctoral students and postdoctoral students in the program.  Financial support to our students comes from this source, individual fellowships, from the UCLA Graduate Division, from research grants of the faculty, or from short term teaching assistantships.

Oliver Hankinson, Ph.D.
Email: OHank@mednet.ucla.edu

Chair, Molecular Toxicology Doctoral Program
Distinguished Research ​Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Environmental Health Sciences