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Welcome to the UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Founded in 2020, the UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences is the first public pharmacy school in the Los Angeles-Orange County region. As part of the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, we actively collaborate with schools and programs in medicine, nursing, and population, public health, and the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute to educate, train, and mentor the next generation of pharmaceutical scientists and clinical pharmacists.

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Areas of Learning

Offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees, the UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences spans a continuum from discovery, development, and delivery of new drugs, devices, and diagnostics all the way to optimizing medication therapy in patients and patient populations.

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BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences
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MS in Pharmacology
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PhD in Pharmacological Sciences
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Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
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Strength in Numbers

The UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences was the first in the UC-system to offer an undergraduate degree in pharmaceutical sciences. Today, we are the first public pharmacy school in the Los Angeles-Orange County region. As part of the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, we actively collaborate with schools and programs in medicine, nursing, and population, public health, and the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute to educate, train, and mentor the next generation of pharmaceutical scientists and clinical pharmacists.

700+
Students
We are training the next generation of pharmaceutical scientists and clinical pharmacists.
#1
Institution
For students admitted to pharmacy school in California.
37%
First-generation college students
Of our enrolled undergraduate students
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In the Media

Nana Entsuah In the Media Headshot
UCI Health Affairs, April 1, 2025

UC Irvine’s Interprofessional Community Health Action Project

“I am proud of our students for coming together in a collaborative, interprofessional manner to tackle the root causes of social issues that significantly impact healthcare access and outcomes. By leveraging their diverse perspectives and expertise, these students created practical, community-centered solutions which move beyond conventional approaches.” (Nana Entsuah)
Erin Knox Headshot
UCI News, March 24, 2025

Pharmacists of the future

“The benefit [of experiential education] is you get experience talking to patients, providing consults, and administering medicine and vaccines to real patients. You can’t only learn in a controlled environment. You have to introduce all these very uncontrollable variables in real-life settings because you get better by doing.” (Erin Knox)
Alexandre Chan In the Media Headshot
Pharmacists a Critical Supplement to Safe CAM Use, March 17, 2025

Specialty Pharmacy Continuum

“I see breast cancer patients and survivors in the clinic, and lots of patients talk to me about managing their side effects of chemotherapy with the various IO modalities.” (Alexandre Chan)
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UCI News, February 20, 2025

UC Irvine assistant professor Lauren Albrecht named 2025 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow

“My research explores how cells regulate protein function and degradation through methylation – a process previously overlooked in lysosomal proteolysis. This discovery has the potential to reshape our understanding of cell signaling and protein homeostasis, with implications from genetic heart disease to new therapeutic strategies.” (Lauren Albrecht)
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