The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at TTUHSC School of Pharmacy encompasses all those areas of biomedical and pharmacy research that pertain to drug design, delivery, formulations and therapeutics. Department faculty members have research interests and expertise in drug design and delivery, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, drug receptor modeling, molecular biology, biochemistry, pathophysiology, immunology and cancer therapy. Department researchers have obtained more than $1.5 million in grants and contracts from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and several pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, Amgen, Dupont, Novartis and Monsanto.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees through the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, which is part of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Lubbock. The Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences is designed to train students for careers in the pharmaceutical industry, academia and governmental agencies including the FDA.