Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pharmaceutical Sciences (BS)

Outcomes

Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to:

1. Retrieve scientific information and literature in order to make presentations of the information in an audience appropriate manner.
2. Analyze existing primary literature and data to answer open questions in the biomedical sciences.
3. Apply scientific knowledge and principles of biomedical sciences to generate a testable scientific hypothesis.
4. Implement appropriate safety awareness in the research laboratory, for example to accurately and safely prepare, store and use drugs and chemicals in accordance with applicable environmental health and safety regulations.
5. Collaborate with other members of an interdisciplinary laboratory research team.
6. Communicate in an effective manner for both written and verbal presentations in order to present scientific knowledge in a coherent manner.
7. Manage projects, including project design, implementation, and control.
8. Think critically and solve problems in order to answer open questions in scientific research or scientific ethics.
9. Identify appropriate ethical behavior and resolve dilemmas that arise in the research laboratory setting based on ethical principles of research.

Biomedical Science (MS)

Outcomes

Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to:

1. Apply interdisciplinary principles of pharmacology, human (patho)physiology, and drug design/discovery to improve pharmacotherapy.
2. Evaluate critically literature reports and data in the biomedical sciences.
3. Identify major themes, knowledge gaps, and problems for improving drug invention, action, and therapeutic utility.
4. Recognize and analyze critically topics in the biomedical sciences with contemporary and future therapeutic impact.
5. Execute laboratory experiments in the biomedical sciences that improve our understanding of drugs and their effects.
6. Advance drug discovery and translational medicine by employing principles in the biomedical sciences.

Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery (MS)

Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to:

1. Apply principles of drug design, development, targeting, delivery, and metabolism
2. Evaluate critically topics of contemporary focus regarding the influence of chemical and physical drug properties and dosage forms on therapeutic performance
3. Identify major themes, knowledge gaps to improve drug delivery, formulation, bioavailability, targeting, and efficacy
4. Evaluate critically topics of contemporary focus in the pharmaceutical sciences
5. Design and execute laboratory experiments in the pharmaceutical sciences that advance our understanding of drug delivery systems and their application for improving pharmacotherapeutics
6. Advance drug discovery and translational medicine by employing drug-delivery, pharmacokinetic, and biopharmaceutic principles and technologies

Pharmacology (MS)

Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to:

1. Apply principles of drug action to living systems
2. Evaluate critically topics of contemporary focus regarding drug design, discovery, and modes of action
3. Identify major themes, knowledge gaps, and research problems to improve drug action, profiling, and therapeutic application
4. Evaluate critically topics of contemporary focus in pharmacology
5. Design and execute laboratory experiments in pharmacology that increase our understanding of drugs and their effects
6. Advance drug discovery and translational medicine by employing principles of drug design and drug action

Biomedical Science (PhD)

Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to:

1. Identify major themes, knowledge gaps, and research problems for improving drug invention, action, and therapeutic utility
2. Apply biomedical science knowledge and scholarship to generate novel insights into drugs and their application to disease treatment from original independent research. 
3. Integrate findings in the biomedical sciences and related disciplines to generate and improve treatment options.   

Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery (PhD)

Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to:

1. Identify major themes and knowledge gaps to improve drug safety, delivery, formulation, bioavailability, targeting, and efficacy 
2. Advance drug discovery and translational medicine by employing principles and technology of drug delivery, biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, and physical pharmacy through independent research 
3. Utilize and evaluate critically technologies for delivering/targeting drugs and optimizing their therapeutic effects

Pharmacology (PhD)

Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to:

1. Generate novel insights into treatment options by integrating information across pharmacology and related disciplines from original pharmacology research
2. Apply pharmacology knowledge and scholarship to generate new ideas and insights as to therapeutic drug action in living systems
3. Integrate findings in pharmacology and related disciplines to devise new treatments that potentially address unmet medical needs