Faculty Affiliation
Pharmacy
Degree Programs
Pharmaceutical Sciences
MSc and PhD
- Fields:
- Biomolecular Pharmaceutical Sciences;
- Clinical, Social, and Administrative Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacy
MScPhm
Collaborative Specializations
The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:
- Addiction Studies
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Bioethics (admissions have been administratively suspended)
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Biomedical Engineering (admissions have been administratively suspended)
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Cardiovascular Sciences
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Global Health (U of T Global Scholar)
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Health Services and Policy Research (admissions have been administratively suspended)
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Neuroscience
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
- Next-Generation Precision Medicine
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, PhD
- Toxicology
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, MSc, PhD
Overview
Pharmaceutical sciences encompasses all aspects of the discovery, development, administration, distribution, and utilization of therapeutic drugs, and the nature, functioning, and dysfunctioning of the biological systems with which drugs interact. As a global leader in pharmaceutical research, the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is home to some of the most prominent and distinguished experts in the area of pharmaceutical sciences. The department is centrally located in the heart of Toronto’s Health Sciences Discovery District. Students have the opportunity to conduct their research in collaboration with a wide range of departments at the University of Toronto and nearby world-class teaching hospitals and research institutes to solve some of health science’s most pressing problems.
A degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences can lead to a variety of career opportunities. Graduates have found employment in academia, the pharmaceutical industry, government, community or hospital pharmacy, consulting, and other businesses.
The Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers research opportunities and courses in two fields of study:
- Biomolecular Pharmaceutical Sciences: drug receptor interactions, molecular biology, electrophysiology, biochemistry, clinical, adverse drug reactions, drug metabolism; pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical formulations, radiopharmaceutical synthesis, drug discovery, biophysical chemistry, basic pharmacokinetics, and clinical research;
- Clinical, Social, and Administrative Pharmaceutical Sciences: bioethics, clinical pharmacy, drug policy, drug safety, global health and corruption, health economics, health policy, health services research, pedagogy, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacy administration, pharmacy practice, social pharmacy, and social psychology.
Contact and Address
Web: pharmacy.utoronto.ca/programs/graduate-department-pharmaceutical-sciences
Email: phm.grad@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-8896
Fax: (416) 978-8511
Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Toronto
144 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3M2
Canada