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The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is the only pharmacy school in the SUNY system. Founded in 1886, the School
has cultivated a reputation for quality and innovative scholarship
in professional education and pharmaceutical sciences.
Pharmacy Practice
The School changed from a two-year to a three-year Ph.G. degree (Pharmacy
Graduate) in 1927. Ten years later the School adopted a new four-year B.S.
in Pharmacy curriculum and, in 1960, we moved to a five year program (two
years prepharmacy plus three professional years). The School initiated
a two-year post-baccalaureate Pharm.D. (Doctor of Pharmacy) in 1971. It
is rated by US News & World Report as the top program in the
northeast and one of the top programs in the country. In 1997 we adopted
a new "entry-level" Pharm.D. program as the first professional
degree. The entry-level Pharm.D. is a four year professional doctoral program
following a specified "pre-pharmacy" program.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Buffalo has played major
roles in the transformation of pharmacy from a solely professional orientation
to an orientation that includes major research activities. Starting in
1954 with the appointment of Daniel H. Murray as Dean, the school achieved
a number of "firsts". We became an early focus for medicinal
chemistry. With the appointments of Eino Nelson and Gerhard Levy
we also created a focus in pharmaceutics and initiated the first clinical
pharmacokinetics laboratory. In the mid-1960s we also created the Department
of Biochemical Pharmacology.
In 2000 the Department
of Medicinal Chemistry merged with the Department of
Chemistry and the Department of Biochemical Pharmacology merged
with the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. These mergers
strengthened the overall resources available to these programs at UB. At the same time the Department of Pharmaceutics became the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences was expanded to include a broader range of
activities including pharmacogenomics and proteomics. The school's name was changed to the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to reflect the broader mission of the school within UB.
The breadth of the training involves disciplines that range from computational chemistry in drug design (including molecular
modeling, molecular dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids, and receptor
mapping), enzyme kinetics, pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism and drug delivery
to toxicology, drug abuse, neurobiology, cardiovascular pharmacology, and
molecular biology. The breadth of programmatic experiences available to
student trainees is augmented by cross-appointments of some participating
faculty in other departments and through participation in "graduate
groups" and "organized research units" within the
university. These interactions also expand the research resources available
to faculty and students in the program.
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