The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is comprised of 12 full-time faculty representing the disciplines of medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, pharmacology, and social and administrative sciences. The Department is responsible for teaching the basic sciences component of the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum. Faculty in the Department teach introductory courses in principles of drug action, biopharmaceutics, biochemistry, genomics and molecular genetics, health care systems, human resources management, and health care and financial management. Additionally, departmental faculty teach the medicinal chemistry and pharmacology segments of the four-semester integrated therapeutics sequence. Most faculty in the Department have prior academic experience or extensive postdoctoral training. Although no graduate program presently exists, the Department has actively engaged professional Pharm.D. students and undergraduates from other departments on campus in faculty-directed research.
The Department is housed in University Park 220, a 15,000 square foot building which is adjacent to a separate facility containing the School of Pharmacy administrative offices and classrooms. The laboratories are fully equipped to perform molecular biology, biochemistry, drug delivery, and medicinal chemistry research. Recent grants from the National Science Foundation, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Institute for the Study of Aging, and the International Academy for Compounding Pharmacists Foundation have been made to Departmental faculty. Departmental faculty have also successfully mentored three American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Gateway to Research Fellows in the past two years. Departmental faculty are engaged in collaborative research with investigators at Washington University, St. Louis University, and other SIUE departments.
The faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is dedicated to excellence in teaching in the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum, pursuing meaningful research and scholarship, and performing quality service to the University, School of Pharmacy, community, and professional organizations. We have an energetic and productive faculty, and we are fully confident that our Department will continue to grow and develop as the School of Pharmacy at SIUE matures.
Areas of faculty research
Areas of faculty instruction
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology
• Microbiology and Immunology
• Histopathology
• Pharmaceutics
• Medicinal chemistry
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Drug Metabolism
• Pharmacogenomics
• Biotechnology
• Financial management
• Health care systems
• Human resource management
• Pharmacy law and ethics
• Community pharmacy management
• Pharmacy education
Pharmaceutical Sciences faculty work closely with their counterparts in pharmacy practice to provide a stimulating and contempory learning environment for our students.
Department technology and equipment
• Tripos SYBYL 8.0 molecular modeling software
• MetaMorph Premier imaging analysis software with angiogenesis, neurite outgrowth and cell cycle application modules
• TA Q100 differential scanning calorimeter
• Leica DMIRE2 inverted fluorescence microscopy system equipped with temperature controlled stage, Z-motor and deconvolution software module
• FluoDia T70 high temperature fluorescence microplate reader
• Perkin Elmer HPLC with automated sampling
• BioRad GS800 calibrated densitometer
• Sorvall Discovery M120 ultracentrifuge
• Varian Ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer
• Varian 800 Fourier transform infrared spectrometer
• Stratagene multiplex qPCR
• Corbett high resolution melting qPCR
• LumiStar injection luminometer
• Nicomp submicron laser diffraction sizer
• Tornado IS6 semi-automated synthesizer
• AktaPrime liquid chromotography system
• Shimadzu 2010 HPLC with UV and mass spectrometer detectors
• CEM Discovery microwave reactor
• Electroporation
• Beckman Coulter Z2 particle counter and size analyzer