With the health-care system rapidly changing across Canada, in 2020 Waterloo School of Pharmacy examined its PharmD curriculum to identify ways to offer students a more cohesive experience for a dynamic practice environment. The new changes were implemented earlier this year to prepare students for the changes in the profession with the rest rolling out in the coming years.
A stack of suitcases filled with medications, a CPS and an English-Spanish medical phrasebook – that’s what Sandra MacTavish, a class of 2016 Waterloo Pharmacy student, had to work with when she landed in Peru last summer.
Sandra and fellow volunteers at the pharmacy clinic in Lima.
As Alzheimer’s disease continues to impact more and more Canadians, the need for novel therapies and therapeutic drugs is greater than ever. Using a state-of-the-art technology to discover new therapies to treat Alzheimer’s disease is among the projects receiving funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), announced today.
More than 43 researchers from Waterloo Science are part of the 3,800 Canadian researchers receiving funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) today.
The announcement was made this morning at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology by the Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology).
