Darin Furgeson
-Darin Furgeson, Assistant Professor Alumni


"After postdoctoral fellow, and assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it was a honor to continue my career at the University of Utah."




Some Person
-Graduate Student




"I never imagined it would be so beautiful is a comment frequently heard in The Graduate School. "My professors treated me like a colleague is another. The fact is, Utah offers graduate students far more than they expect a program of the highest caliber, in a place of spectacular beauty. Even with an introduction, Utah may surprise you. For in the end, graduate study is beyond imagining. It's discovering what happens next."

The University of Utah is nestled in the Wasatch foothills, overlooking Salt Lake City, the Great Salt Lake, and the West Desert.  Behind the U, up into the Wasatch Mountains, lies some of the world's best biking and hiking trails, rock climbing, and ski and snowboard terrain. Within 40 minutes of campus, there are seven (7) mountain resorts that receive in upwards of 500 inches of the driest snow on earth -- it's the reason why, Utah powder is widely known as "the greatest snow on earth." We work hard, but we play even harder.

The Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry continues to lead the way to define and expand the scientific avenues for improving therapy by improving the delivery of drugs and therapeutic agents; understanding the fate of drugs in the body; and focusing on drug delivery from packaging to release of therapy.

Our talented faculty are well known nationally and globally, and we continue to pass the tradition of excellence onto our students. Our promise to our students is a legacy of caring, we are offering a quality degree programs to ensure our students succeed with the education and skills to advance their careers in academia, research, and industry.

The University of Utah, School of Pharmacy has consistently been ranked in the top 4 every year since 1975. The Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry has been consistently ranked in the top ten universities for funding with the National Institutes of Health funding and research productivity. Each year our department receives a combined total of $5 million dollars in grants and research funding. Each year our graduate students benefit from this funding for their research, publications, and results.

Our department steadily attracts academically- and professionally- talented students. While our program offers a rigorous didactic and experimental education curriculums, our students also benefit from our research facilities, and healthcare practice settings. As a worldwide recognized leader in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, our current student body is diverse and reflective of the national and global population. We actively seek students with our core values of integrity, caring, excellence, commitment, innovation, learning and professionalism.


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