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Ranked among the top pharmacy schools in the United States and considered one of the most prestigious, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences was founded in 1886, and is the second-oldest component of the University at Buffalo and the only pharmacy school in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. UB is the largest and most comprehensive university center in the State University of New York system and the first public university in New York to be admitted (in 1990) into the Association of American Universities, joining North America’s other leading research universities. Encompassing the departments of pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical sciences, the school offers a number of professional, undergraduate, and graduate programs directed at several areas of the pharmaceutical sciences.
The school is part of an academic health center that includes the Schools of Dental Medicine, Health Related Professions, Nursing, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Pharmacy. The comprehensive character of the University at Buffalo represents a major intellectual, clinical and physical advantage to the School of Pharmacy. It increases available resources and permits us to focus our resources, as a unit, on our own goals. Some examples include the teaching of biochemistry, physiology, and other biomedical areas by the faculty of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
The School of Pharmacy at UB has cultivated a reputation for quality and innovative scholarship in professional education and pharmaceutical sciences.
It has also played a major role in the transformation of pharmacy from a professional practice orientation to one that includes major basic and clinical research activities. Starting in 1954 with the appointment of Daniel H. Murray as Dean, the school achieved a number of "firsts." We became an early focus for medicinal chemistry with the creation of a Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the appointment of major figures, including Bernard Baker, Howard Schaeffer and James Danielli. With the appointments of Eino Nelson and Gerhard Levy we also created a focus in pharmaceutics and initiated the first clinical pharmacokinetics laboratory. In the mid-1960s we also created the Department of Biochemical Pharmacology to round out our basic science departments. Other School of Pharmacy faculty have built upon the school’s tradition of excellence.
Our school has long been associated with an academically and professionally active faculty and our facilities have been largely devised to house such activities. Similarly, we have long been able to attract an intellectually superior set of students because of the high academic and professional reputation of the school.
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