Pushing Boundaries, Advancing Science
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Collaborative Research Training
Discover the UF Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate program and learn about our comprehensive and collaborative research training across the five concentrations.
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Research Across the Drug Life Cycle
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Competition and collaboration highlight the UF College of Pharmacy’s 38th Annual Research Showcase
This year’s event featured more than 110 posters, 12 oral presentations and a keynote address from David Strauss, M.D., Ph.D., CEO and founder of Translational Cures and former acting chief scientist for the United States Food and Drug Administration
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Five Research Concentrations
Pursue your Ph.D. in one of our five concentrations, spanning the breadth of pharmaceutical sciences research.
Cellular and Systems Pharmacology
Understand mechanisms of disease and develop new therapeutic solutions through cellular physiology, systems physiology and pharmacology.
Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences
Discover genetic and nongenetic factors that contribute to variability in drug response.
Medicinal Chemistry
Drug discovery and development with focuses on biochemistry, natural products and AI-driven therapies.
Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
Explore medication use in large populations, using big data and advanced methods in study design, measurement and analysis.
Pharmaceutics
Improve drug therapies using pharmacokinetics, pharmacometrics and biotechnology.
College Research NEWS
New drug delivery mechanism could aid breast cancer treatment
scientists from the UF Health Cancer Institute have found a way to make treatment for a notoriously aggressive breast cancer more effective.
Study reveals early cancer-linked signatures hiding in normal pancreatic tissue
UF scientists uncovered molecular signatures in healthy pancreatic cells that resemble those seen in cancer.
Gene-editing platform may help treat hearing loss
Mei He, Ph.D., leads a research team in developing a gene-editing platform using extracellular vesicles.
New medicinal chemistry space ushers in era of synergy and teamwork
A 14,500-square-foot integrated drug discovery lab will house some of UF’s medicinal chemistry faculty.
