GRADUATE EDUCATION
Graduate education is offered in five research departments within the UF College of Pharmacy. Each department represents a focused area within pharmaceutical science.
MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Areas of active interest include drug discovery, organic synthesis of medicinal agents, natural products chemistry, prodrugs, topical drug delivery, peptide chemistry, molecular modeling, drug metabolism and molecular toxicology.
Graduate research opportunities and program details
Graduate Coordinator
Raymond Bergeron, Ph.D.
Box 100485
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL., 32610-100485
(352) 273-7725
PHARMACEUTICAL OUTCOMES & POLICY
Areas of Active interest include social and administrative pharmacy, health outcomes research, pharmacoeconomics, and pharmacoepidemiology.
Graduate research opportunities and program details
Graduate Coordinator
Almut Winterstein, Ph.D.
PO Box 100496
Gainesville, Florida 32610-0496
(352) 273-6258
PHARMACEUTICS
Areas of active interest include basic, applied, and clinical investigations in pharmacokinetics/ biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmaceutical biotechnology and drug delivery, and herbal medicine.
Graduate research opportunities and program details
Graduate Coordinator
Anthony Palmieri, Ph.D.
PO Box 100494
Gainesville, Florida 32610-0494
(352) 273-7868
PHARMACODYNAMICS
Research in this department includes physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology and pathology of drugs and drug interaction. Research goals are to understand normal physiology, pathophysiology, and drug action.
Graduate research opportunities and program details
Graduate Coordinator
Joanna Peris, Ph.D.
PO Box 100487
Gainesville, Florida 32610-0487
(352) 273- 7688
PHARMACOTHERAPY AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
Areas of active interest focus on understanding genetic and non-genetic factors that contribute to variability in drug response. Selected areas of research include cardiology, transplant/immunology, asthma/pulmonary, psychiatry, and clinical pharmacology/drug metabolism.
Graduate research opportunities and program details
Graduate Coordinator
Reginald Frye, Ph.D.
PO Box 100487
Gainesville, Florida 32610-0487
(352) 273-5453
OTHER DOCUMENTS
2008 Final Report of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy Graduate Program External Review