This five-day course includes short lectures and hands-on experience with various isolated organs and whole-animal models used to examine drug disposition/pharmacokinetics/action.

• Includes lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory exercises
• Emphasizes routine rodent procedures (gavage, injections, cannulation), isolated organ systems (liver, kidney, intestine, brain), and neuropharmacology
• Faculty from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Long Island University, and Wake Forest University

Application deadline is December 1, 2009. Housing is available as are scholarships for housing. The Short Course is made possible by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.