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College of Pharmacy | University of Illinois at Chicago

Where today's experts shape the leaders of tomorrow.
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UIC is ranked the #6 College of Pharmacy in the country for good reason: research and clinical innovations, discoveries and comprehensive, committed teaching. That is why we've been defining the field for more than 150 years.

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A $51 Billion Dollar Problem.

Heroin’s Use Rising, Costing Society More Than $51 Billion

June 9, 2017UIC pharmacoeconomists led by Simon Pickard and Ruixuan Jiang created a cost-analytic model to determine how heroin impacts society using several variables: number of imprisoned heroin users and their crimes; treatment costs of heroin abuse; chronic infectious diseases contracted through heroin abuse (HIV, Hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis), and cost of their treatments; cost of treating newborns with medical conditions associated with heroin; lost productivity at work; and heroin overdose deaths.

Our Locations

Chicago Campus

Our Chicago campus is strategically located in the world-renown Illinois Medical District, providing numerous educational, clinical, and collaborative opportunities in a diverse urban setting.

Rockford Campus

Our Rockford campus, which opened in 2010, shares a 20-acre wooded site and state-of-the-art facilities with the U of I College of Medicine and College of Nursing at Rockford. Students gain hands-on clinical experience at the city’s multiple hospitals.

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Our People

Judy Bolton
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Head of Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

Judy Bolton

The people in this department have a lot of respect for one another and know they can walk down the hallway and talk with one of their colleagues about research problems and know that at the end of the talk, they may have another idea for a successful research project.
Dustin Cavida
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Alum

Dustin Cavida

Being in Rockford was the greatest experience I could ever ask for!
Jeiran Ghasemi
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Class of 2016

Jeiran Ghasemi

The Rockford campus is one big family and I wanted to be a part of it.
Jason Hickok
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Assistant Director of the UICentre

Jason Hickok

We start with the idea that there are researchers on campus with a seed of a drug discovery project and then we pull together the team and resources capable of moving the project to the next level.
Greg Thatcher
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Director of the UICentre

Greg Thatcher

We’re focused on collaborative engagement.

Why UIC?  Because our students are given the foundation to pursue their dreams.  

Last year, our residency match rate was 77%.  

There’s always room in our legacy for more great minds and caring hearts, whether you’re a student, professor, preceptor, or supporter of our mission.

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