Toxicology D
Course, Master's level, 1BG381
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Autumn 2025 Autumn 2025, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English Only available as part of a programme
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 100%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 1 September 2025–2 November 2025
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
A Bachelor's degree including 60 credits in biology and 30 credits in chemistry. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
- Application deadline
- 15 April 2025
- Application code
- UU-17475
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 25 July 2025–31 August 2025
- Information on registration from the department
Autumn 2025 Autumn 2025, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 100%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 1 September 2025–2 November 2025
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
A Bachelor's degree including 60 credits in biology and 30 credits in chemistry. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 25 July 2025–31 August 2025
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
All chemicals can be dangerous in high enough doses. This course will provide you with the knowledge to understand and explain when, where and how chemicals and pharmaceuticals become toxic. The course mixes lectures with lab training and seminars to cover the following aspects:
- how chemicals are absorbed, metabolised and eliminated from the body
- the importance of different organs for the detoxification of chemicals
- neurological and endocrinological effects of chemicals
- developmental biology; effects of environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals
- general genetic test methods to detect genetically induced damages.
The course also includes study visits to places where toxicologists work.
Syllabus
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2024
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2023
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2022
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2021
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2019
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2018
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2017
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2007
Reading list
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2024
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2023
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2021
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2019
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2018
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2017
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2015, version 2
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2015, version 1
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2010
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2007