FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE – RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND
50+ Graduate Faculty Provide Training
Future pharmaceutical scientists have the opportunity to train with more than 50 graduate faculty in the college's comprehensive graduate education program.
Graduate students are actively involved in the research activities in the UF College of Pharmacy. Research spans the entire life cycle of a drug and include broad interest areas such as medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, pharmacology, clinical and translational research, and pharmaceutical outcomes and policy. Our graduates contribute to advancing pharmaceutical sciences through positions in academia, industry and government agencies such as the FDA.
Led by award-winning faculty, these discoveries significantly impact the lives of patients around the world. The college achieved $32.3 million in total research funding in 2021 and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy ranks UF among the Top 5 pharmacy colleges nationally in NIH, federal grants and total funding. The collective talents of our world-class researchers and trainees has led to substantial growth in research funding in the last six years, with the expectation for even more growth in the coming years.
72 First-author student publications in 2021
#3 nationally in NIH, federal and total research funding in 2022
$32.4 million in annual research awards in 2022
MEET OUR FACULTY: VIDEO SERIES
Yousong Ding, Ph.D.
In Dr. Ding's laboratory in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida, researchers are interested in combing the world for naturally occurring chemicals that have applications in health, agriculture and environment.
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Research News
PhRMA Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Dr. Xiaoshu Pan
The award provides $120,000 in funding to advance Dr. Pan’s research in treating sensorineural hearing loss.
UF College of Pharmacy faculty to develop an AI-driven hepatitis C screening tool
A $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse will fund the development of the hepatitis C screening tool.
UF opens Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology
The new state-of-the-art data science building will be home to the department of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy.
Exercise-mimicking drug sheds weight, boosts muscle activity in mice
A new drug shows promising results that could lead to the development of a new weight-loss drug that mimics exercise.
Research Showcase
Each year, our graduate students participate in our annual Research Showcase, which celebrates the research of our students and gives students the opportunity to present their research to others in the College.
News
36th Annual Research Showcase spotlights student and trainee-led research
The UF College of Pharmacy’s centennial-year edition of Research Showcase put the spotlight on graduate student and trainee research during an action-packed two days in February. The annual event featured poster and oral presentations by students and trainees. The keynote address was delivered by double Gator graduate Michael Taylor, Pharm.D., Ph.D., the vice president and global head of real-world data within the product development data sciences organization at Genentech/Roche in San Francisco.
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The infrastructure of UF Health fosters interdisciplinary research opportunities across colleges, centers and institutes.
