
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.

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
UF Health researchers propose AI model to predict mortality in coronary artery disease patients
The research was published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

UF scientists join European effort to develop antiviral drugs for future pandemics
Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., is a co-principal investigator in the newly established VIGILANT research network.

Popular diabetes medications may protect against Alzheimer’s disease, UF researchers find
Dr. Serena Jingchuan Guo is the senior author of a study published in JAMA Neurology April 7.

UF pharmacy professor’s paper ranks No. 2 in citations this century
A 2001 publication co-authored by Dr. Thomas Schmittgen has garnered nearly 150,000 citations in the Web of Science database, securing its place as the second most-cited research article of the…
