Careers with the School of Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy
10A Victoria St. S.
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 1C5
Phone: 519-888-4499
Research at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy shows the same entrepreneurial spirit that made the University of Waterloo what it is today.
Our dynamic and interdisciplinary research teams address questions that span fields ranging from cellular physiology, to drug development and delivery, to clinical studies of how to optimise medication use in various patient populations.
Waterloo Pharmacy faculty collaborate with other departments and faculties within the University of Waterloo. Beyond that, partners include other universities, locally and internationally, and hospitals and clinics both within the Region of Waterloo and across the province.
Major areas of study include:
Each faculty member's name links to their personal profile and is followed by keywords related to their research.
Clinical pharmacy research is concerned with the science and practice of rational medication use and medication management therapies. Pharmacy practice research deals with assessing and evaluating pharmacy practice while addressing the role(s) of the pharmacist, utilizing a systems-based, patient-centered approach. Both areas are concerned with optimal patient outcomes.
Geriatric pharmacotherapy, rural health, chronic pain and opioid management, interprofessional collaboration
Pharmacy practice, digital technology, gamification, microlearning, harm reduction
Uptake and outcomes of pharmacist interventions/scope changes, pharmacists as immunizers, and travel medicine care
Impact of pharmacy care on patient safety and medication adherence in oncology, complementary and alternative medicine in oncology, cancer immunotherapy and vaccines, oncology biosimilar implementation and use
Cardiovascular risk reduction, anticoagulation therapy, translating evidence to practice, shared decision-making
Pharmacotherapeutic management of neurological conditions, in particular drug related problems in cognitive impairment and dementia, seizures, Parkinson’s disease, and chronic pain
Pharmacist interventions/scope change, curricular mapping and student outcomes, co-operative education, vaccines/vaccine hesitancy/pharmacists as immunizers, health technology
The pharmaceutical sciences combine a broad range of scientific disciplines that are critical to the discovery and development of new drugs and therapies. Research can involve aspects of chemistry, biology, statistics, chemometrics, mathematics, physics, and chemical engineering.
Growth factor signaling in neurons, regulation of NMDA receptors by GPCRs, harm reduction, substance use, opioids, cannabis
Cancer biology, tissue microenvironment of solid tumours, mechanisms of metastasis, chemokines, receptors and cancer biomarkers, natural agents that reduce cancer progression
Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling in special sub-populations, individualized dosing and dosing tools in hemophilia
Development of non-invasive technologies to delivery therapeutic agents, intelligent delivery systems/biomolecular devices
Computational molecular biosciences and drug discovery, molecular pharmacology, development of new computational tools for structural biology analyses, therapeutics design for cancers and neurodegeneration
Drug delivery and pharmaceutics, nanomedicine, medical devices, biomaterials, 3D Printing, hot-melt injection molding, HIV/AIDS, cancer, chronic wound healing, ocular diseases
Drug discovery, molecular pharmacology, diabetes
Drug discovery, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel organic molecules and peptides as therapeutic agents
Application of phage and phage-encoded genes and genetic systems toward the generation of new process innovations with application to the design of novel therapeutics and optimized production/purification platforms
Application of self-assembling materials such as surfactants and polymers, formation of nanoparticles and emulsions for use in drug delivery applications
The field of pharmacoepidemiology applies epidemiological methods and clinical pharmacology to investigate the use, effectiveness and safety of medications in human populations. Pharmacoeconomics seeks to identify, measure and compare the costs and consequences of pharmaceutical products and services, often with the goal of optimising the allocation of healthcare resources.
Pharmacoepidemiology and health outcomes of chronic medications, effects of pharmacists' expanding scope of practice
Pharmacoepidemiology, post-marketing drug safety and effectiveness, comparative safety and effectiveness, diabetes health outcomes, drug information science
Uptake and outcomes of pharmacist interventions/scope changes, pharmacists as immunizers, and travel medicine care
Aging, pharmcoepidemiology, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, depression, health services research
Decision-analytic modeling for health technologies assessment, pharmacoeconomics evaluation studies, cost-effectiveness analysis, and pharmacoinformatics
Careers with the School of Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy
10A Victoria St. S.
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 1C5
Phone: 519-888-4499
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Office of Indigenous Relations.