Spring 2027

Introduction to Pharmacology

Introduction to basic concepts of drug delivery and action, methods used to study drug action. Includes a brief survey of drugs acting on the cardiovascular system, the central nervous system and other drug targets.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Warren Heideman4.1/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.79 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe how different dosage forms of drugs are used to deliver drugs to specific organs and sites of action and how drugs are removed from the body.

  • Identify how drugs interact with specific target receptors to produce physiological responses, including desired and undesired effects.

  • Analyze how microbes such as viruses and bacteria evade drug treatment.

  • Specify how drugs are used to affect the cardiovascular system.

  • Specify how drugs are used to treat disorders of the CNS.

  • Explain how “drugable targets” have been used to create new drugs.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in MS Pharmaceutical Sciences: Applied Drug Development

  • Declared in MS Pharmaceutical Sciences: Applied Drug Development
PHMSCI 761

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  • Declared in MS Pharmaceutical Sciences: Applied Drug Development

Professors

Spring 2027

Warren Heideman

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.79 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

WARREN HEIDEMAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Online Only0 / 600

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.79 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Basic concepts of drug delivery and action
  • Methods used to study drug action
  • Drugs acting on the cardiovascular system
  • The central nervous system
  • Other drug targets

Skills

  • Describe how different dosage forms of drugs are used to deliver drugs to specific organs and sites of action and how drugs are removed from the body.
  • Identify how drugs interact with specific target receptors to produce physiological responses, including desired and undesired effects.
  • Analyze how microbes such as viruses and bacteria evade drug treatment.
  • Specify how drugs are used to affect the cardiovascular system.
  • Specify how drugs are used to treat disorders of the CNS.
  • Explain how “drugable targets” have been used to create new drugs.

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Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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PHMSCI 761 · Spring 2027

Introduction to Pharmacology

Recorded 2026-10-14
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