Welcome to the School of Pharmacy

The School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo is the first new pharmacy school in Canada in 20 years and housed in a state-of-the-art education and research building on the Health Sciences Campus in downtown Kitchener. 

We offer an innovative undergraduate pharmacy curriculum that integrates foundational knowledge in the biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with applied skills in the clinical, behavioural and social sciences to prepare our graduates to serve as medication therapy experts. 

News

  1. Feb. 19, 2019Pharmacy graduate student examines economic feasibility of new cancer gene therapyKristina Ellis

    Treatment for cancer is rigorous and often requires multiple strategies. Cancer drugs are among the most expensive medications in the world. The high treatment costs, prevalence, and severity of cancer mean that any new forms of treatment are met with equal parts excitement and suspicion. Will this novel treatment be effective or affordable?

  2. Feb. 13, 2019Waterloo Pharmacy professor participates in prestigious meeting of leading health care stakeholdersAndrea Edginton on stage with other participats at the Grand Challenges meeting

    The Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Grand Challenges Canada among others, aims to address urgent global health problems by bringing researchers with a global health passion together.

  3. Feb. 7, 2019Researchers find new treatment for chlamydiaEmmanuel Ho and his students in the lab

    Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new way to prevent and treat Chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the world. 

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Events

  1. Mar. 1, 2019Graduate Studies Seminar

    Nyasha Gondora

    PhD Candidate, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo

  2. Mar. 15, 2019Graduate Studies Seminar

    Origins of electrical excitability and Cav3 T-type channels in heart pacemaking

    J. David Spafford

    Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo

  3. Mar. 29, 2019Graduate Studies Seminar

    Andrea Edginton

    Associate Professor, Associate Director for Graduate Studies and Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo

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