School of Pharmacy Annual Fund

At the UCSF School of Pharmacy, an exceptional faculty continually push the boundaries of the profession and share lessons learned with an equally exceptional student body. Yet financial obstacles threaten to compromise the School’s capacity to attract the finest teachers and researchers as well as the most promising student applicants.

Funding from the State of California has been declining and is now barely 20 percent of the School’s total budget. That is why Annual Fund contributions are increasingly important, as they bridge this fiscal gap in ways that directly benefit students and faculty.

Featured Annual Fund priorities of the School of Pharmacy include:

Pathways Research Projects

Pathways, the foundation of the new PharmD curriculum, introduces pharmacy students to the broad range of career possibilities open to them on graduation. Contributions to the Annual Fund supply funding for fourth-year students’ required research projects.

Pharmacy Teaching Assistants

Teaching assistants are top upperclass men and women who use their own recent experiences to guide younger students. Everyone profits from this innovative program: Students receive more personalized instruction, faculty gets a helping hand and the assistants themselves, many of whom go on to pursue careers in academia, gain valuable experience. Contributions to the Annual Fund provide stipends to the assistants and are essential to the program’s continued success.

Professional Development Scholarships

The School of Pharmacy encourages students to become involved in pharmacy professional organizations and to take advantage of opportunities to present their research. Contributions to the Annual Fund support professional development scholarships that provide small travel stipends to students who are invited to take part in professional presentations and conferences.

Summer Research Program

For students interested in obtaining both the PharmD and PhD degrees, the Summer Research Program offers mentored, “hands-on” summer laboratory research experiences in clinical pharmacy, biopharmaceutical sciences or pharmaceutical chemistry. Contributions to the Annual Fund help sponsor several enthusiastic and highly qualified applicants who need financial assistance to attend.

To support the School of Pharmacy, contact Marie Parfitt Pattie at 415/476-9806 or mppattie@support.ucsf.edu.