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
Nina Isoherranen Named Editor-in-Chief of Drug Metabolism and Disposition
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy’s Nina Isoherranen, PhD, has been named the next editor-in-chief of Drug Metabolism and Disposition, a leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics. Her appointment…
UW Researchers Recognized at North American ISSX Meeting
Faculty, postdoctoral scholars and students from Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry represented the School at the 27th North American meeting of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX), held October 11–14 in San Francisco….
