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The TTUHSC-SOP Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is comprised of 20 research-based faculty, three academic faculty and nearly 60 postdoctoral associates, graduate students and technicians working in Amarillo and Abilene. The Department is focused upon integrated research that combines cutting-edge biomedical and molecular advances with modern drug development, targeting and formulation. Critical research focus areas include cancer biology and treatment, vascular drug delivery, and immunotherapeutics. Other Departmental research disciplines include pharmacology, pharmaceutics, biochemistry & molecular biology, immunology and pharmacokinetics.
Department faculty received more than $3.17 million in research funding during the 2008 calendar year and ranked first among TTUHSC academic departments in research funding and expenditures with 22 research grant awards from the National Institutes of Health and other government, foundation and pharmaceutical industry entities.
In the classroom, the SOP’s pharmaceutical sciences faculty contribute more than 90 semester credit hours of teaching annually to the TTUHSC-SOP Pharm.D. curriculum and administered the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (GPPS) for more than 35 graduate students as part of the TTUHSC Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS). The GPPS offers students the opportunity to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and is designed to train aspiring researchers for careers in the pharmaceutical industry, academia and governmental agencies, including the FDA.