Focusing on drug metabolism, transport, distribution and absorption to deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time.
Collegiality, collaboration, and intellectual professionalism.
The Department of Pharmaceutics works to promote the efficacy and safety of therapeutics through inclusive teaching and transformative research in the drug delivery and disposition sciences. Through work that span from molecular, cell- and organ-based studies in humans and animals and mathematical modeling and simulation techniques, our research and teaching focus on understanding the processes that determine the exposure and pharmacological response to drugs. We focus on physiological and disease processes, genetics and environmental impacts that alter metabolism, transport, distribution and absorption of drugs. The highly collegial Department faculty, students, post-doctoral fellows and staff pursue these multidisciplinary and translational goals through collaboration within the School of Pharmacy, University of Washington campus and national and international institutions.
Latest Department News
Forging the Future: University of Washington’s Department of Pharmaceutics Leads the Way in HIV Treatment with the TLC-ART Program
For those who can recall the devastation brought on by the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, today’s treatments are nothing short of a miracle. In a new editorial from The New York Times, long-acting drugs…
Department of Pharmaceutics Welcomes Two New Faculty
We are delighted to welcome two new Associate Professors to the Department of Pharmaceutics: Melissa Barker-Haliski, PhD, and Swayam Prabha, MBA, PhD. Dr. Barker-Haliski expands our expertise in behavioral pharmacology, disease models and the relationships…
