Departments
The Department of Pharmacy has as it's focus both the safe and effective use of
drugs in humans (Pharmacotherapy) and an evaluation of the social and economic impact
of drug therapy in humans and in health care systems (Pharmacy Administration).
Pharmaceutics is a multidisciplinary applied science concerned with delivering and
maintaining appropriate drug concentrations at target sites in the body for appropriate
times (thus, alleviating disease by optimizing drug effects over time).
Medicinal chemistry is at the forefront of innovation, blending synthetic chemistry,
molecular modeling, computational biology, structural genomics, and pharmacology
to discover and design new drugs, and investigate their interaction at the molecular,
cellular, and whole-animal level.
The goal of Continuing Education is to improve health care delivery in the Commonwealth
of Virginia by identifying, developing, and promoting educational programs that
will maintain, enhance and expand the competencies of pharmacy practitioners.
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.
Phartech is a centralized technology team that manages the numerous requests for
support from faculty, staff, and students.
