Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET)

Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences Retreat The Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences Retreat will be held on May 19 in Coralville.
Departmental Collaborations College of Pharmacy professors collaborate on campus and beyond to advance health care and education.
University of Iowa Environmental Health Sciences Research Center Duffel and Doorn, of MNPC and the UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, are working to increase understanding of environmental contaminants and to reduce their impacts on human health.
Jin Founds Anti-Cancer Company Zhendong Jin, associate professor, founded InnoBioPharma with support from the UIVentures Program.
High Throughput Screening Facility David Roman, MNPC associate professor, is one of many to use the core UI High Throughput Screening Facility, located in the Pharmacy building. Roman works on novel pre-therapeutic lead molecules.

The PSET faculty is a dynamic group of researchers and educators committed to advancing health care through biomedical research, graduate education and the education of pharmacists. Our faculty has a passion for fundamental and translational research in drug discovery, drug development and biomedical science. Our excellence in research and scholarship provides a new generation of pharmacy professionals an education based on the latest advances in science and pharmaceutical therapies. The PSET faculty is dedicated to educating the next generation of outstanding pharmaceutical scientists through graduate education and post-doctoral training. Our goal is to provide students with the knowledge and skills for a career dedicated to advancing biomedical and pharmaceutical science, and to developing and applying new technologies that will shape the future of pharmacotherapy.

Robert J Kerns, Department Chair

About PSET

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics houses two divisions:

The Division of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry (MNPC)

The MNPC Division offers research programs in drug metabolism, biocatalysis, pharmaceutical toxicology, organic synthesis, drug design, biopolymeric drugs, biotechnology and structural biology, computer aided drug discovery, structure-activity relationships, bioanalytical chemistry, and molecular pharmacology.

It contains one Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree program: