School of Pharmacy Fundraising Priorities

At no other pharmacy school in America are students exposed to such breadth, depth and quality of pharmaceutical research and clinical training. Innovations to UCSF’s PharmD curriculum, begun 35 years ago, continue today and have become the training standard for all schools of pharmacy.

As an acknowledged leader in the field, the School is uniquely poised to grasp the possibilities that lie immediately ahead in pharmacogenomics, medical bioinformatics, quantitative biology, consumer self-care and patient care. The School is dependent, however, upon private support in its efforts to remain on the cutting edge.

Featured fundraising priorities of the School of Pharmacy include:

Center for Chemical Diversity

The Center for Chemical Diversity will condense the drug development process by creating comprehensive chemical “libraries” that can be analyzed and manipulated using the latest in information technology. Gifts to this priority will fund faculty endowments, create state-of-the-art laboratories and aid the development of new techniques for collating and manipulating biochemical information.

Center for Consumer Self Care

Almost half of all health-care consumers use over-the-counter medications and other complementary therapies. Gifts to the Center for Consumer Self Care will fund research on self-care practice and outcomes, postmarketing surveillance studies and educational programs that provide the information needed to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their own treatment.

Center for Pharmacogenomics

The multidisciplinary Center for Pharmacogenomics will explore the creation and delivery of “smart drugs”—medications tailored to best interact with the specific genetic characteristics of individual patients. Gifts to this fundraising priority will help establish the Center by providing resources needed to assemble core faculty, secure laboratory space, design new teaching and research programs and forge new links with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

UCSF Fresno Pharmacy Outreach Program

To expand the School of Pharmacy’s outreach to underserved areas of the rapidly growing Central Valley, the School is seeking support for the UCSF Fresno Pharmacy Outreach Program. Gifts to this priority will help establish a training site in Fresno for UCSF PharmD students and fund program development and faculty positions there.

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