Genevieve Perono

As an undergraduate student in biology and pharmacology, a lot of my studies involve learning about drug-drug, drug-body, and body-drug interactions. My program is structured using problem-based learning. This involves critically analyzing and researching problems that help teach fundamental principles of pharmacology. This way of learning helps combine and reinforce the elements necessary to apply to real world applications. For example, how many Tylenol tablets to take when you have a headache.</p> <p>In my studies, a background in other branches of biology such as physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology are necessary to further understand the effects of drugs. Some of these courses require laboratory work, which include looking at cell cultures and tissue analyses. From the observations and measurements, a decision about the proposed prediction must be made. In this, I work with a team of other pharmacology students. We work together to investigate how the human body and cells respond to drugs.