{"id":3797,"date":"2022-03-24T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/about-us\/exploring-pharmacology\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:06:27","slug":"exploring-pharmacology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/our-mission-overview\/exploring-pharmacology\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Pharmacology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">\u201cThe true science of pharmacology is focused on the cellular machinery for gathering and utilization of external molecular information, and not just the exploitation of this machinery for therapeutic purposes by the use of drugs.\u201d Thomas A. Langan, 2002.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/08\/aspet-explore-pharmacology-2021-400-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"A woman scientist smiles in front of a microscope in a lab with a title of &quot;Explore Pharmacology: A Resource for Undergraduate Students&quot; and a caption, &quot;American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2021 Edition&quot;, with the ASPET icon.\" width=\"200\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/08\/aspet-explore-pharmacology-2021-400-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/08\/aspet-explore-pharmacology-2021-400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Download the PDF to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspet.org\/docs\/default-source\/education-files\/final-aspet-explore-pharmacology-2021_web-version.pdf\">Explore Pharmacology.<\/a> This brochure was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspet.org\/\">ASPET (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics)<\/a>, the professional society for pharmacology, to provide college students with an overview of the fundamentals and applications of pharmacology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the PDF to Explore Pharmacology. This brochure was created by ASPET (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics), the professional society for pharmacology, to provide college students with an overview of the fundamentals and applications of pharmacology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":0,"parent":2220,"menu_order":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25774,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3797\/revisions\/25774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}