The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is a flagship department at Northeastern University in Boston. Our outstanding faculty members are committed to delivery of excellent pharmaceutical science education and training and actively participate in interdisciplinary research enterprise. Northeastern University’s School of Pharmacy is consistently ranked first in the National Institutes of Health funding among all private schools of pharmacy across the United States.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The Department’s mission is to support the University, Bouvé College, and the School of Pharmacy in education and training of undergraduate and graduate students to become highly skilled and caring healthcare professionals and create new knowledge through excellence in basic and translational pharmaceutical research.
News & Announcements
Northeastern and Moderna establish fellowship that will bring Big Data to drug development →
Northeastern University has teamed up with Moderna, the biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to create a two-year fellowship for postdoctoral researcher to get hands-on experience in drug discovery, development, delivery, and evaluation.
“Our hope is to design a process that makes it easier, faster, and less expensive to get promising drugs to the clinical trial phase and eventually to the people who need them,” says Mansoor Amiji, university distinguished professor in the departments of pharmaceutical sciences and chemical engineering, who will be supporting the fellowship from Northeastern.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is proud to announce Kirin Gada, Pharmacology PhD student, has won the RISE Graduate Innovator Award. The Graduate Innovator Award recognizes a graduate peer who demonstrates remarkable innovation by identifying new approaches to problem solving for maximal social impact. RISE is a great platform for NU students to project their work to a bigger audience and for giving aspiring scientists a voice.
