EDUCATING LEADERS IN PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES SINCE 1886
Our History
Since 1886, the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has been a national leader in education and research, playing a major role in transforming pharmacy from a professional practice to a major field of clinical research.
Today, we continue pushing the boundaries in education and research, from pioneering a pharmacogenomics curriculum to originating the nation’s first HIV antiviral treatment certification program.
We are the second-oldest component of the University at Buffalo, which is the largest and most comprehensive university center in the SUNY system and the first public university in New York to be admitted into the Association of American Universities (AAU).
A Legacy of Learning
1886
First class begins studies
1888
Our first graduating class and the initiation of UB Blue and White! Read more how our first Dean, Willis G. Gregory, and the SPPS Class of 1888 launched the UB Blue and White traditional color scheme.
1902
Master of Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees established
1933
Four-year Bachelor of Pharmacy degree created
1940
Accreditation by the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education
1950
PhD degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacology created
1962
Department of Biopharmaceutics established by Gerhard Levy, father of pharmacodynamics
1970
Nationally recognized Post-Baccalaureate PharmD program initiated to enhance the clinical education of post-graduate pharmacists
1972
Creation of the first clinical pharmacokinetics lab in the United States
1987
Pharmacotherapy Research Center and Core Analytic Lab created to investigate HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases
1992
Smart Pill developed and patented by professor emeritus Jerome Schentag
2002
UB-University of Zimbabwe Antiretroviral Pharmacology Training Program established
2008
Center for Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics and Center for Protein Therapeutics established
2015
Global Health Outreach Program created
2016
Ranked #1 pharmacy school in New York State by U.S. News & World Report
2019
MS degree in Pharmacometrics and Personalized Pharmacotherapy created, one of the first in the country
2021
Launch of first pharmacy school-based Master of Science (MS) in Clinical and Translational Therapeutics program in the country.
2022
Implemented new academic success Honors/Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (H/S/U) grading system for PharmD students.
Buffalo College of Pharmacy original location, Main and Virginia Streets
Class of 1899: first class to include female pharmacy graduates
Pharmacy student, 1950
Gerhard Levy, father of pharmacodynamics
SUNY Distinguished Professor Gene Morse, renowned HIV clinical pharmacology researcher
Smart Pill
Research Assistant Professor Charles Maponga and Pharmacist Tinashe Mudzviti, University of Zimbabwe
SUNY Distinguished Professor William Jusko, founder of the Center for Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacy student on medical mission trip to Haiti, 2019
Pharmacy students, 2019
Master of Science (MS) in Clinical and Translational Therapeutics
A new path for academic success: Honors/Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading system