Our diverse student body is embraced by our faculty, who not only serve as professors but also as mentors and friends. Our relatively small class sizes foster friendship and bonding of students who learn to work together as a team.
Our location, on both the University of Houston main campus and in the heart of the Texas Medical Center (TMC), provides us the best of both worlds. Students enjoy the community feeling of the University of Houston and at the same time are part of the vibrant environment of the world’s largest medical center. Opportunities exist for interaction with students, faculty and practitioners from other renowned TMC institutions.
UH Among Top 10 Finalists in National Clinical
Skills Competition
UH Pharm.D. students Allison Palmer and Christi Parker were among the top 10 finalists from a record field of more than 100 teams in the 14th annual American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Clinical Skills Competition Dec. 6 at the 2009 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. The team of Palmer and Parker secured the honor of representing the college at the national event after winning the UH competition in November. Palmer and Parker have established a track record of success in the field, including winning the 2009 Clinical Skills Competition title at the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists Annual Seminar in Galveston in April.
College Researchers Receive Nearly $1.5 M in NIH Stimulus Funding
Four UH College of Pharmacy faculty researchers have received a total of nearly $1.5 million in new or supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka "stimulus package"). The funding total includes a new two-year, $682,000 award to Professor Richard Bond, Ph.D. ('88), B.S. ('83), for his research into the use of beta-blockers for asthma and a new two-year, $450,000 grant to Professor Ke-He Ruan, Ph.D., M.D., for his collaborative project with Texas Heart Institute researchers to develop a novel cell-based therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Highly Competitive NIH Program Provides Support for
UH Student
UH College of Pharmacy's Bradley McConnell, Ph.D., assistant professor, has received a supplemental grant from the National Institutes of Health in support of pharmacology graduate student Ashley Guillory. McConnell received a $15,047 award from the "NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research" program as a supplement to his NIH-funded project studying the targeted disruption of signaling pathways to increase cardiac contractility. According to the NIH, the highly competitive program provides supplemental funding to less than 1 percent of all individuals involved in NIH-supported research.
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UHCOP Research on Exercise, Parkinson's Disease in National Spotlight
UH College of Pharmacy pharmacology graduate student Gaurav Patki and John & Rebecca Moores Professor Yuen-Sum "Vincent" Lau, Ph.D., recently garnered national recognition for their research that lends further evidence to the positive effects of long-term exercise in delaying the onset of Parkinson's disease. Patki and Lau's research was selected as one of only about a dozen projects out of a pool of nearly 16,000 submissions to be featured in a news conference at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. For more on this story, click here.
The Fall 2010 Pharm.D application is open from Sept 15, 2009 - Feb 15, 2010. Click here to apply!
Friday, Feb. 12 P1 Summer Internship Job Fair
8 a.m.-4 p.m., Science & Research Bldg. 2, UH Main Campus Contact: Betty Hassell, ehassel@uh.edu or 713-743-1651
Saturday, Feb. 27 Mading Society Induction Reception
4 p.m., Petroleum Club,
Houston
Contact: Sara Tovar, sotovar@uh.edu or 713-743-0823 Saturday, March 13 - CANCELED
UH Alumni & Friends Reception at APhA 2010
As a necessary cost-saving measure due to the ongoing economic downturn’s impact on state and higher education budgets in Texas, UH College of Pharmacy regrettably has canceled plans to host an Alumni & Friends reception at this year’s annual meeting of the American Pharmacists Association.
UH Pharm.D. students Allison Palmer and Christi Parker were among the top 10 finalists from a record field of more than 100 teams in the 14th annual American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Clinical Skills Competition Dec. 6 at the 2009 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. The team of Palmer and Parker secured the honor of representing the college at the national event after winning the UH competition in November. Palmer and Parker have established a track record of success in the field, including winning the 2009 Clinical Skills Competition title at the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists Annual Seminar in Galveston in April. 
Four UH College of Pharmacy faculty researchers have received a total of nearly $1.5 million in new or supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka "stimulus package"). The funding total includes a new two-year, $682,000 award to Professor Richard Bond, Ph.D. ('88), B.S. ('83), for his research into the use of beta-blockers for asthma and a new two-year, $450,000 grant to Professor Ke-He Ruan, Ph.D., M.D., for his collaborative project with Texas Heart Institute researchers to develop a novel cell-based therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension. 
UH College of Pharmacy pharmacology graduate student Gaurav Patki and John & Rebecca Moores Professor Yuen-Sum "Vincent" Lau, Ph.D., recently garnered national recognition for their research that lends further evidence to the positive effects of long-term exercise in delaying the onset of Parkinson's disease. Patki and Lau's research was selected as one of only about a dozen projects out of a pool of nearly 16,000 submissions to be featured in a news conference at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. For more on this story,
