“USC has always been at the forefront of everything having to do with pharmacy and healthcare. We are innovative, we are generous in our time, we give to the community.”
For more than a century, the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences – formerly known as the USC School of Pharmacy – has been a beacon of innovation and excellence. As the only school that spans the entire pharmaceutical spectrum of discovery and development to clinical care, regulation, and policy and economics, the beneficial impact of our work is global.
The USC Science Technology and Research (STAR) program, based at the school for more than three decades, brings together USC scientists with students at nearby Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School. STAR students learn about science and math by conducting research that matters with USC experts.
Our work advances the field, builds global expertise and improves lives everywhere.
For nearly three decades, we have maintained international partnerships that now extend throughout Asia, the European Union, Australia, South America and Africa. With our location in Los Angeles, we are uniquely positioned as a bridge between East and West. From joint scientific meetings and research collaborations to student exchanges and internships to training programs for foreign colleagues and service-learning missions, the school’s reach and influence are global.
In our laboratories, faculty and students continuously expand our understanding of the mechanisms of disease development and progression as they uncover breakthrough therapeutics and approaches to cure and treat a host of maladies. From cancer and infectious disease to autoimmune and cardiovascular conditions and from neurodegeneration to substance use, our researchers produce groundbreaking advances and garner millions of dollars of funding from the National Institutes of Health and other government and private funders.
In addition to serving patients in a wide variety of clinical settings—including more than 50 annual health fairs—we own and operate several pharmacies. More than half of L.A.’s first million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were delivered at sites we administered. Our faculty members are national leaders in promoting pharmacy practice in safety-net clinics for the homeless and uninsured, and in eliminating pharmacy deserts. Our team of regulatory scientists is helping safely speed lifesaving medications and devices to those who need them, while our health economists provide evidence-based research that is shaping advances in health policy nationally and globally.
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American Pharmacists Awards Pinnacle Awards (a national record)
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patents
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lives represented in Schaeffer Center data
“USC has always been at the forefront of everything having to do with pharmacy and healthcare. We are innovative, we are generous in our time, we give to the community.”