The track in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) attracts graduate students with diverse training and backgrounds, including chemistry, biology, physics and engineering, who are interested in basic biomedical research at the molecular, cellular or integrative level. By understanding how the molecules, cells and organs of the body interact to achieve normal biological function, researchers in the MCIP track seek to gain fundamental insight into the mechanisms of disease. The MCIP track consists of collaborative faculty with wide-ranging interests including ion channels, synaptic transmission and neuroscience, cardiac and vascular physiology, aging and metabolism whose combined expertise provides an environment that promotes the translation of research discoveries from the "bench to the bedside".

Graduate Coordinator
Department of Physiology-MC 7756
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900
Telephone: 210-567-4324
Fax: 210-567-4410
E-mail: physiologygrad@uthscsa.edu

Track Co-leaders:
Glenn M. Toney, Ph.D.
Office: 3.041V
Telephone: 567-4372
E-mail: toney@uthscsa.edu

Mark S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Office: 3.041V
Telephone: 567-4328
E-mail: shapirom@uthscsa.edu