College of Pharmacy
Department website: https://pharmacy.utexas.edu/
The College of Pharmacy offers graduate study leading to the Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Doctor of Philosophy with a major in pharmaceutical sciences.
Programs
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy
Translational Science
Doctor of Philosophy
Requirements and Policy
Pharmaceutical Sciences
For More Information
E-mail: PGSGradStudies@austin.utexas.edu
URL: https://pharmacy.utexas.edu/programs/ms-phd
Translational Science
For More Information
E-mail: PGSGradStudies@austin.utexas.edu
URL: https://pharmacy.utexas.edu/degrees-programs/graduate-studies
Graduate Studies Committees
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) in the spring 2026 semester.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Anton Avancena Jamie C Barner Carolyn M Brown Maria A Croyle Zhengrong Cui Kevin N Dalby Sharon DeMorrow John Digiovanni Laura K Fonken Christopher R Frei Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares Debadyuti Ghosh Rueben A Gonzales Andrea C Gore Juan Guan Michael T Johnsrud Hyeun Ah Kang BJ Kim Nayun Kim Jim M Koeller Kenneth A Lawson Jr Grace Lee Seongmin Lee JIE LI Hung-Wen Liu Regina A Mangieri Michela Marinelli |
Robert Messing S J Mihic Leticia R Moczygemba Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay Luis A Natividad Kimberly Nixon Chanhyun Park Nicholas A Peppas Samuel Poloyac John T Powers Deepika M Rao Karen L Rascati Kelly Renee Reveles Kristin McKeithan Richards John H Richburg Dan F Smelter Hugh D Smyth Carla L Vandenberg Tyler Jordan Varisco Karen Marie Vasquez Jiebing Wen Christian P Whitman Robert O Williams III Kun Yang Feng Zhang Qian Zhong |
Translational Science
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Anton Avancena Jamie C Barner Owen Beck Carolyn M Brown Alison Gale Cahill Craig A Champlin Kasey Claborn Maria A Croyle Kevin N Dalby Sharon DeMorrow John Digiovanni Lauren Ilyse richie Ehrlich Stephen Carl Ekker James C Fleet Christopher R Frei Andrea C Gore Lisa Griffin Lucas Grant Hill Hyeun Ah Kang Jim M Koeller Kenneth A Lawson Jr Grace Lee |
Seongmin Lee Chang Liu Hung-Wen Liu Regina A Mangieri Andreas Matouschek Elizabeth Matsui William Matsui Jason McLellan Leticia R Moczygemba Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay Luis A Natividad Kimberly Nixon Chanhyun Park Karen L Rascati Kelly Renee Reveles John H Richburg Dan F Smelter Hugh D Smyth Stefano Tiziani Karen Marie Vasquez Robert O Williams III |
Facilities
State-of-the-art research facilities are available for graduate education. Laboratories are equipped with the latest instrumentation and specialized support units for research in all of the areas of study mentioned below. Research space on the Austin campus is located in two pharmacy buildings, the Biomedical Engineering Building, the Dell Pediatric Research Institute, and in the Animal Resources Center. In San Antonio, basic laboratory and clinical research space is available in the McDermott Building on the campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center, and at affiliated institutions. Additional facilities for collaborative research in Austin are available in the College of Natural Sciences, the Cockrell School of Engineering, the Institute for Neuroscience, and the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology. Students pursuing either the MS or PhD in the Pharmacotherapy and Translational Sciences area will have courses, lab and clinical hours in San Antonio. Students in both Austin and San Antonio have access to extensive electronic journal holdings through the University Libraries website.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The Innovating for Health Institute (i4Health)- Formerly the Drug Dynamics Institute
The Innovating for Health Institute (i4Health) is a collaborative center, bringing together extensive scientific expertise and experience across industry, academia, and global partners. i4Health has created a variety of ways to help industry, start-ups, and academic researchers move ideas from the lab to human clinical trials on the path to commercialization via preclinical evaluation and development (TherapeUTex), experiential innovation preparation (UT Advance), and wet lab incubator facilities (UTech Dorm Room).
Texas Center for Health Outcomes Research & Education (TxCORE)
Texas Center for Health Outcomes Research and Education (TxCORE). TxCORE addresses population and individual patient health through innovative, high-quality research and education, and serves our community by responding to critical health care issues that impact patients’ daily lives. The interdisciplinary team of researchers has expertise in health care utilization and costs, health outcomes and value assessment, medication use and adherence, health behavior and health disparities, public health and policy, and integrative clinical practice, pharmacy practice, and education. The Center’s researchers and graduate students provide research design, data collection, and data analysis expertise to health care providers, payers, institutions, and organizations, as well as the pharmaceutical industry. Center personnel also develop, present, and support educational programs focused on the delivery of high-quality health care. For more information, visit the TxCORE website.
Center for Molecular Carcinogenesis and Toxicology
The University of Texas at Austin has established an interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Carcinogenesis and Toxicology (CMCT). The mission of the CMCT is to provide leadership for the expansion of programs of excellence in environmental health sciences education and research and to prepare students for careers that address the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which environmental agents instigate toxicity and disease, including cancer. CMCT faculty come from a variety of colleges and departments of The University of Texas at Austin including: the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology and the Division of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry of the College of Pharmacy; the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and the UT Marine Science Institute in the College of Natural Sciences; the Departments of Nutritional Science and Pediatrics of the Dell Medical School; and the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis of the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The CMCT fosters interdisciplinary graduate training programs by providing the mechanism by which students can work with a range of faculty interested in toxicology. This includes facilitating interdisciplinary research collaborations and providing ancillary student and research infrastructure support. The center’s faculty represent a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including pharmacology, toxicology, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, neuroscience, nutrition, biochemistry, chemistry, marine biology, and civil and mechanical engineering.
Targeted Therapeutic Drug Discovery & Development Program (TTP)
The Targeted Therapeutic Drug Discovery & Development Program (TTP) is funded by a CPRIT Core Facilities Support Award (grant #RP210088) and provides researchers with access to cutting-edge technologies and expertise to enable the translation of their research into new treatments for cancers.
The goal of TTP is focused on assisting cancer scientists and clinicians by utilizing a truly integrated approach of targeted molecular drug discovery, uniting every key discipline to achieve their goals in a single platform.
Translational Science
In addition to facilities listed in the first paragraph, students will have access to facilities at the partner institutions. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, one of the components in the University of Texas System, consists of five schools: the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. The UT Health Science Center has become the primary training site for health professionals serving the south Texas region.
The University of Texas at San Antonio is the second largest university in the UT System and one of the state’s fastest growing public universities. It is designated by the United States Department of Education as a Hispanic-serving institution.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is comprised of six schools, including the School of Public Health. The School of Public Health in Houston coordinates programs at regional campuses in Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Austin, and Brownsville. This statewide presence makes the School of Public Health a pivotal public health resource for Texas.