Centers

Centers at the School of Pharmacy provide public education, conduct research, and link clinical and academic activities to help strengthen the public health infrastructure across the State of Maryland. While their areas of expertise vary, their common goal is to help provide quality health care and training to improve the health of the citizens of the state and across the nation.

Center on Drugs and Public Policy
This Center conducts research on major drug policy issues, organizes conferences and workshops and serve as a consultant on drug issues to organizations in the public and private sectors.

Computer Aided Drug Design Center
The CADD Center facilitates collaboration between scientists in the computational, chemical and biological sciences with the goal of transitioning discoveries in the basic sciences into novel therapeutic agents.

Maryland Poison Center
One of 70 poison centers throughout the country, its mission is to decrease the cost and complexity of poisoning and overdose care while maintaining and/or improving patient outcomes. The Center receives more than 60,000 calls per year, from the routine to the life threatening.

Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery
The goal of the Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery is to create a multidisciplinary research environment that will provide expertise and foster collaborations for the design, development and translation into clinic of nanosystems for use as therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.

Office of Substance Abuse Studies
The mission of the Office of Substance Abuse Studies (OSAS) at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is to improve programs of substance abuse treatment and prevention and to explore the intersection of substance abuse and pharmacy practice in our society. For over twenty years OSAS has been providing education, research, and service programs in the field of substance abuse for health professionals and the community at large.

Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging
The Center serves as the focal point of education and outreach programs about the social and psychological aspects of drug use among the elderly and administers the Elder-Health Program for pharmacy students and retired pharmacists.

Pharmaceutical Research Computing
Our objective is to maintain a computer system to meet the data warehousing and analysis needs of the Department faculty, graduate students, and other researchers in need of data research.