Nova Southeastern University (NSU) College of Pharmacy recently launched South Florida’s first Ph.D. program in pharmacy.
The program aims to produce graduates that will help make new drug discoveries and develop different ways of delivering drugs to patients to improve the lives of millions and further scientific knowledge about pharmaceutical products and medications.
Lasting between 4 and 5 1/2 years, the program was launched with four students. Led by Hugh M. McLean, Pharm.D., Ph.D., the College of Pharmacy’s associate dean for research & graduate education, the program focuses on graduate study and research in drug development, determinants of drug use, and drug discovery.
The drug development sequence emphasizes coursework, laboratory, and literature skills and research that will help prepare graduates for careers in making new drug dosage forms, which is the use of different ways to deliver drugs to a person.
