Welcome from the Department Chair, David Grainger, Ph.D.
Thanks for finding us on line! We have a new look, updated information, and many exciting developments detailed in our new Pharmaceutics website! We hope you find our department appealing and our website easy to navigate. As the nation's top-ranked pharmaceutics program in research and scholarly productivity, we have a lot to offer you, whether you are a potential graduate student, interested industrialist, curious citizen, or benefactor. Our research programs are cutting edge and internationally recognized, and our scholarly contributions impacting. We continue to move, respond and grow as the pharmaceutical field also grows and adapts to new technologies and therapeutic ambitions.
As in many places around the world, recent global changes have impacted the department. While requisite belt-tightening from the current economic woes produce some discomfort, the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry has fared pretty well by winning new research grant monies to offset budget cuts. We find ourselves with 9 new graduate Ph.D. students in 2009 for a total of 42, a top national ranking, a new faculty hire (Darin Furgeson), and exciting progress in education, research and international visibility. We currently are transitioning to an interim Dean in the College of Pharmacy (our own Medicinal Chemistry Chair, Chris Ireland) while our former decorated Dean John Mauger transitions to retirement. He leaves the College with an outstanding record, with the College ranked among the top 5 nationally, despite its smallest size, for decades. Significantly, he oversaw the recent August, 2009 groundbreaking of the new Skaggs Research Institute adjacent and connected to our current Skaggs Pharmacy building. This represents the culmination of an enormous effort to gather research-active faculty into a common footprint to synergize research activities. What an opportunity to take the top-ranked College to even greater achievements! New students, new research funding, new publications, new prominence! There's so much happening on this campus and in our department! Please peruse the website for information on the many updates, newsworthy stories and other items of interest from the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah.
Best Wishes!
David W. Grainger, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, and Inaugural George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of Utah
