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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 Scienes
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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

UCI News, January 9, 2025

UC Irvine scientists design bioluminescent RNA

“Until now, little was known about how and when RNA does what it does inside cells. It turns out it’s been really quite difficult to know in living cells, and especially in living organisms, when RNA is turned on and where it goes. If you wanted to study the first 30 seconds or the first minute – nobody knows. But we provide a tool. You can now visualize it.” (Andrej Luptak)
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UCI News, January 8, 2025

UC Irvine-led team discovers potential new therapeutic targets for Huntington’s disease

“By targeting key processes like RNA splicing and modification, we not only advance our understanding of the molecular disruptions behind HD but also open the door to potential new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases more broadly. It was a really important collaboration to bring chemical and genomic tools from my lab and merge them with Leslie’s powerful and robust model systems to nail down this novel mechanism.” (Rob Spitale)
Thomas Martinez In the Media
Science, November 25, 2024

‘Dark proteome’ survey reveals thousands of new human genes

“I am most excited about translating microproteins into therapeutic efforts, hopefully as both biomarkers and drug targets. Once this barrier is crossed, I think interest in the field will expand dramatically.” (Thomas Martínez)
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