Our outstanding department has the best to offer in research opportunities and graduate education, with six faculty, and nearly fifty graduate students and post-doctoral research associates.  Funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has allowed for the creation of a multi-million dollar Laboratory for Applied Drug Design and Synthesis (LADDS), while a National Science Foundation sponsored IGERT grant is enabling our graduates students to develop entrepreneurial skills, through research projects bridging medicinal and polymer science. Our faculty are actively engaged in research for the discovery and development of new drugs and are exploiting new biological targets for the treatment of cancer, malaria, CNS disorders, and infectious diseases.  

We blend conventional disciplines to allow for specialized research to be conducted in computational drug design, automated high-throughput synthesis and analysis, and biological evaluation and assay development. Our mission is to continue to produce highly-trained graduates for careers in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, preparing students to be the next generation of leaders in academia and industry. Please take the time to peruse our website, and don't hesitate to contact us for more information.