The Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences is offered by the
School of Pharmacy
on the Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University and
is located in the Robert Blackwell Smith Building. The School of Pharmacy was founded
in 1898 and is Virginia's oldest school of pharmacy. The School offers the only
Ph.D. curriculum in Pharmaceutical Sciences in Virginia, which is taught by internationally
recognized research faculty. The School has over 50 full-time faculty in Pharmaceutics
Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy Administration, and Pharmacotherapy. The Smith Building
is also home to the School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
In the School of Pharmacy, the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program is coordinated
through the office of the Director of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program,
Dr. Susanna Wu-Pong.