The Department of Pharmacy has as it's focus both the safe and effective use of
drugs in humans (Pharmacotherapy) and an evaluation of the social and economic impact
of drug therapy in humans and in health care systems (Pharmacy Administration).
Pharmaceutics is a multidisciplinary applied science concerned with delivering and
maintaining appropriate drug concentrations at target sites in the body for appropriate
times (thus, alleviating disease by optimizing drug effects over time).
Medicinal chemistry is at the forefront of innovation, blending synthetic chemistry,
molecular modeling, computational biology, structural genomics, and pharmacology
to discover and design new drugs, and investigate their interaction at the molecular,
cellular, and whole-animal level.