School News

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)
Jan Hirsch Headshot
UCI Health Affairs, January 30, 2025

Leading the Charge in Whole-Person Healthcare

"The Robert A. Mah Molecular Innovation Center initiative has a particular focus on developing natural product inspired molecules which are more easily adapted to medicinal chemistry needed to advance molecules to medicines in areas such as non-opioid pain management, cancer treatment and infectious diseases. " (Jan Hirsch)
UCI News, October 1, 2024

Adeline and Robert Mah donate another $20 million toward Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building

"The Molecular Innovation Center, under the direction of Andrej Luptak, professor and chair of pharmaceutical sciences, will be located on the second floor of the Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building and will pursue next-generation drug design and therapeutics for cancer, neurodegenerative conditions, viral and bacterial infections, childhood diseases and other maladies." (Andrej Luptak)
UCI News, August 28, 2023

Leading the way in transformative healthcare

"In the pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences rotation, students showed off their science knowledge in a “Jeopardy!”-type game with categories such as biology, chemistry, drugs, physiology and pharmacology, followed by a lighthearted Mad Lib exercise spoofing a conversation between a pharmacist and a patient about new medication. The final activity was a true-false quiz on whether a displayed word named a drug or a Pokemon character."