The disciplines of pharmacology and physiology touch on virtually every field of the biomedical sciences, presenting endless opportunities to discover disease mechanisms and develop new treatments.

At the Department of Integrative Physiology, we study organisms as functioning systems of molecules, cells, tissues and organs, with an emphasis on whole-body function and its applications to human ...

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for their work uncovering the receptors that allow us to perceive temperature and ...

Physiology is the science of function in living organisms. Integrative physiology integrates knowledge from anatomy, biochemistry, mathematics, physics, physiology and statistics to study how humans ...

Physiology studies how the human body works, including the functions and interactions of its systems, cells, and organs, and the maintenance of homeostasis. It explores how the body adapts to ...

Physiology, pathology and related sciences majors study the fundamental biological processes at play in molecular, cellular and organ systems. This degree path is ideal for students looking for a deep ...

Environmental stress events rarely occur in isolation; plants are frequently challenged by dynamic scenarios involving ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Their work ...

Hunger is an ancestral and evolutionary survival instinct; its importance is evident in the complex and redundant pathways involving all five senses that regulate it. 1,2 Historically, when humans ...

Welcome to the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at Saint Louis University — a vibrant, multidisciplinary, and dynamic academic community that thrives on education, research, collaboration, ...