Welcome to School of PharmacySUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY

History, Prosperity

1953

1981

Established in Seoul

Moved to the Natural Sciences Campus (Suwon)

2008 Moved to the new building

Degree Programs

Undergraduate School (6-year system)

Department of Pharmacy (BS in Pharmacy)

267 students enrolled (3rd, 68; 4th, 70; 5th, 65; 6th, 64)

Graduate School

Department of Pharmacy (MS/PhD in Pharmacy)

60 students for MS course

96 students for PhD course

Degree Programs

Special & Professional Graduate Program

• Graduate School of Clinical Pharmacy

55 students for MS course

Department of Clinical Pharmacy

Department of Social and Health Pharmacy

• Pharma-Star Graduate School

74 students for MS/PhD in Industrial Pharmaceutical Science

Supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare

Medicinal Chemistry &

Natural Products

Pharmaceutical Biosciences

Pharmacology & Toxicology

Pharmaceutics & Drug Delivery

Social &Clinical

Pharmacy

• Drug molecule de-sign

• Organic synthesis of novel drugs

• Novel organic syn-thetic reaction

• Discovery of new natural products

• Drug receptor structure

• Immunity/host de-fense mechanism

• Activity regulation of biological mol-ecules

• Disease target discovery

• Screening of bioactive com-pounds

• Mechanisms of drug metabolism & action

• Neuroscience & drug abuse

• Toxicity mecha-nisms

• Side-effect evalua-tion of metabolites

• Pre-formulation• Tailored formula-

tion design• Drug delivery sys-

tem• Drug pharmacoki-

netics• Pharmaceutical

analysis

• Drug economic evaluation

• Strategy for pharmaceutical technologies

• Regulatory affairs • Pharmaceutical

industry manage-ment

• Pharmaceutical statistics

• Ok Pyo Zee• Won Hun Ham• Kang Ro Lee• Young Hoon Jung• Hyun-Ju Park• In Su Kim• Ki Hyun Kim

• Dong-Kwon Rhee• Suhkneung Pyo• Jeung-Whan Han• Eun-Jung Cho• Dong-Gyu Jo• Ka Young Chung• Thiruma V.

Arumugam

• Byung-Mu Lee• Sun-Mee Lee• Kyu Hyuck Chung• Seok-Yong Lee• Choon-Gon Jang• Hyung Sik Kim

• Sun Dong Yoo• Eun-Seok Park• Ji Hoon Jeong• Jeongmi Lee• Yu Seok Youn• Kang Choon Lee

• Eui Kyung Lee• Jae-Hyun Lee

Faculty

Tenured Track: 24

Non-tenured Track: 2

Adjunct Professors: 39

Emeritus: 8

Publications 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

SCI Publications/faculty member 5.77 7.00 7.04 7.10 8.25

Summed Impact Factors/faculty mem-ber 15.95 21.74 24.47 25.20 26.92

Research funds 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Governmental funds/faculty member (₩ million)

194 264 252 245 297

RESEARCH CAPABILITY

Core Strengths

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Publications / Member IFs / Member

• To produce the next genera-

tion of world class leaders by

upgrading research infrastruc-

ture

• “Center for Global Creativity in

Pharmaceutical Education and

Research”

• $ 8.7 million, 2013-2020

RESEARCH FUNDING

Creative Re-search Infra-

structure

Cooperative Research

Ecosystem

Core Research Platform

BK 21 PLUS (Brain Korea 21 Program for Leading Universities & Students)

Medical Research Center (MRC)

• $ 7.0 million, 2010-2019

• Research center for Epigenome Regulation (RCER)

RESEARCH FUNDING

Training of re-searchers in basic medical science

New epigenome target for disease

therapy

Technique for epigenome-based new drug devel-

opment

Mechanism of epigenomeEpigenetic regulatory mole-

culesInvestigation of efficiency

RCER

Drug Abuse Research Center

• $ 5.0 million, 2014-2018

Graduate School of Industrial Pharmaceutical Science

• $ 2.0 million, 2012-2015

RESEARCH FUNDING

QS ranking 47 in Pharmacy/Pharmacology in 2014

Global network

SKKU-GEA Joint Program for Pharmaceutical Technology

Dual degree system with U Kentucky (USA), Okayama U (Japan)

Supported by Samsung foundation

Successful Alumni-Student mentoring program

Core Unit in SKKU Global Top 10 project (Vision 2020)

PROGRAMS & ENVIRONMENT

Facilities, State-of-the-art

New Pharmacy Build-ing (125,000 ft2)

Drug delivery technology Research Center (DRC)

Pharmacy practice room

24 Research labs

Animal lab

Computer Lounge

Pharmacy museum

4 Lecture Rooms for Undergraduates

THANK YOU!

Practical issues for mutual exchange

• Undergraduate student exchange– Practical experiences in clinical rotations– Global internship

• Faculty exchange– Practical experiences in clinical rotations– Online lecture sharing