In FY09, the School of Pharmacy was awarded $16.5 Million dollars in contract and grant awards. As a top research school, we apply an integrative understanding of drug discovery, development, and utilization in conducting groundbreaking and translational research. The outcomes from this research make a major impact on improving the quality of people’s lives.
Research Centers & Units:
Centers at the School of Pharmacy provide public education, conduct research, and link clinical and academic activities to help strengthen the public health infrastructure across the State of Maryland. While their areas of expertise vary, their common goal is to help provide quality health care and training to improve the health of the citizens of the state and across the nation.
Center on Drugs and Public Policy
This Center conducts research on major drug policy issues, organizes conferences and workshops and serve as a consultant on drug issues to organizations in the public and private sectors.
Clinical Pharmacology Unit
The Clinical Pharmacology Unit (CPU) in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science is a multi-disciplinary clinical research resource for UMB investigators, contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical industry. The CPU designs and conducts Clinical Pharmacology trials focusing on PK/PD, drug metabolism, renal function evaluation, and drug-drug interactions. Data obtained from clinical trials (Phase I-IV) are analyzed using NONMEM, WinNonlin, and SAS. Review Brochure.
Computer Aided Drug Design Center
The CADD Center facilitates collaboration between scientists in the computational, chemical and biological sciences with the goal of transitioning discoveries in the basic sciences into novel therapeutic agents.
Maryland Poison Center
One of 70 poison centers throughout the country, its mission is to decrease the cost and complexity of poisoning and overdose care while maintaining and/or improving patient outcomes. The Center receives more than 60,000 calls per year, from the routine to the life threatening.
Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery
The goal of the Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery is to create a multidisciplinary research environment that will provide expertise and foster collaborations for the design, development and translation into clinic of nanosystems for use as therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.
Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging
The Center serves as the focal point of education and outreach programs about the social and psychological aspects of drug use among the elderly and administers the Elder-Health Program for pharmacy students and retired pharmacists.
Pharmaceutical Research Computing
The mission of Pharmaceutical Research Computing (PRC) is to provide research support for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and other researchers by meeting their data management and analysis needs.