Center for Drug Studies
The Center for Drug Studies (CDS) of the VCU School of Pharmacy specializes in "Phase I" Clinical Studies for the development of new
drugs and new drug delivery systems. This emphasis usually involves pharmacokinetic, biopharmaceutic, and pharmacodynamic, and
pharmacogenetic studies in healthy human volunteers or stabilized patients.
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Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine
VCU School of Pharmacy’s Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine has been in operation since May 2006.
The center develops and applies novel methods for the purpose of identifying and using biomarkers to improve disease understanding,
and to tailor medication use in individual patients with the goals of enhancing efficacy and minimizing toxicity. High-dimensional
investigations where (hundreds of) thousands of genotypes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites are measured together with
environmental risk factors and clinical information are considered powerful tools to achieve these goals and are, therefore, an
important focus of the research.
The center operates from a strong multidisciplinary perspective. Most of the applications of these methods involve psychiatric
outcomes.
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