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 2025 ASPET Fellow
Professor and Milo Gibaldi Endowed Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics Nina Isoherranen was recently named a 2025 Fellow by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Council. Selection as a Fellow of the…
Pharmaceutics Award Winners at ISSX Conference
The 2025 International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX) International Meeting got underway last month, and Department of Pharmaceutics students Tim Tsang, Aurora Authement and Arzoo Thakkur took home awards in the poster competition. In the…
