Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
• Molecular and Systems Pharmacology
• Nanomedicine and Chemical Biology
• Pharmacy Education Research and Leadership

By the Numbers

2024 QS World University Rankings, Pharmacy & Pharmacology: #35 Worldwide, #2 in Canada

As of Jan 2024 (from Jul 1, 2022 to Dec 31, 2023)

• Publications: 190
• Grants: 160 (active, non-internal, Fiscal Apr 1, 2022–Mar 31, 2023)
• Awards: 13 
• Presentations: 41
• Media Hits: 92
• Students
  • E2P PharmD: 861 (Jan 1–Apr 28, 2023); 635 (May 15–Aug 19, 2023); 888 (Sep 1–Dec 22, 2023)
  • Flex PharmD: 19 (Jan 1–Apr 28, 2023); 17 (May 15–Aug 19, 2023); 17 (Sep 1–Dec 22, 2023)
  • BPSc: 150 (Jan 1–Apr 28, 2023); 64 (May 15–Aug 19, 2023); 198 (Sep 1–Dec 22, 2023)
  • MSc: 40
  • PhD: 50
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellows: 31
  • Visiting International Research Students: 13
  • 4,329 registrants in 14 Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development programs and 95 Canadian Pharmacy Practice Program
• Alumni (total): 7,489
• Experiential Education: 795 Practice Educators in 532 Practice Sites
• Practice: 3,492 Patient Encounters (Jul 1, 2022–Dec 31, 2023); 25,946 Patient Encounters (cumulative total through 122 months of operation)
• People: 80 Total FTE Faculty; 664 Clinical Faculty; 30 Honorary Faculty; 107 Total Staff; 4 Research Associates; 151 Student Workers

To view our 2023 Year in Review report, click here (PDF, 5.2 MB).

July 2024

Turgeon RD, McCormack J, Potter J. Tools for Practice #368: Sodium Restriction in Heart Failure: Beneficial or pouring salt in the wound? June 21, 2024. Available at: https://cfpclearn.ca/tfp368/

Kalra, Jessica., Baker, Jennifer., et al. Accumulation of liposomes in metastatic tumor sites is not necessary for anti-cancer drug efficacy. J Transl Med 22, 621 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-024-05428-9

Matthew Peters, Sina Halvaei, Tianyu Zhao, Annie Yang-Schulz, Karla C Williams and Reuven Gordon; Classification of single extracellular vesicles in a double nanohole optical tweezer for cancer detection; Journal of Physics: Photonics; DOI 10.1088/2515-7647/ad5776. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7647/ad5776/meta 

CORE PhD student Amin Adibi co-authored a Global Burden of Diseases study on risk factors: Brauer, Michael, et al. "Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021." The Lancet 403.10440 (2024): 2162–2203. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00933-4

Smith AD. A taste of the pharmaceutical Sciences: Development of labs to support student learning. Article 63 In: Boone E and Thuecks S, eds. Advances in biology laboratory education. Volume 44. (2024) DOI: 10.37590/able.v44.abs63.

Esposito TVF, Rodriguez-Rodriguez C, Blackadar C, Klodzinska S, Moerk Nielsen H, Saatchi K, Häfeli UO (2024). Biodistribution of the Cationic Host Defense Peptide LL-37 Using SPECT/CT. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 202, 114398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2024.114398

August 2024

Ricky Turgeon received a Canadian Heart Function Alliance Early Career Investigator Grant of $25,000 for his team's project "Toward Integrating Shared Decision-Making in Heart Failure Pharmacotherapy: Development and Pilot-testing of SHARE-HF Patient Decision Aids". Sept 2024–March 2026.