OpenFieldTTUHSC Amarillo · Amarillo, Texas, United States
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) at Amarillo is the regional academic healthcare and medical research hub of the Texas Panhandle. Housing the prestigious Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, the School of Medicine Amarillo Campus, and the Harrington Cancer and Health Foundation, the campus delivers world-class clinical care, biomedical discovery, and pharmaceutical innovations.
TTUHSC Amarillo operates specialized divisions in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pediatric Medicine, Surgery, and Internal Medicine. It features the Center of Excellence for Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics, the Clinical Research Institute, and state-of-the-art sterile compounding and mass-spectrometry drug discovery laboratories.
Professional programs require specialized centralized applications (PharmCAS for Pharmacy, TMDSAS for Medicine). Prerequisites include rigorous organic chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and physics coursework. Applicants must complete interviews, CASPer situational judgment assessments, and submit professional evaluation letters.
ACPE-accredited four-year professional pharmacy program with innovative team-based learning, sterile IV compounding practicums, and inpatient clinical pharmacotherapy rotations.
Intensive laboratory doctorate investigating blood-brain barrier drug delivery, opioid abuse molecular pathways, solid-tumor targeted chemotherapy, and pharmacokinetics.
Medical training program providing extensive third- and fourth-year clinical clerkships at Northwest Texas Healthcare System and BSA Health System in Amarillo, focusing on rural healthcare access.
Two-year research master's degree focusing on liposomal nano-drug delivery, bioanalytical LC-MS/MS development, and in-vitro drug permeability assays.
Applied clinical degree training trial coordinators and clinician-investigators in FDA regulatory compliance, clinical biostatistics, institutional review boards, and patient recruitment.
Translational cancer research fellowship evaluating novel small-molecule chemotherapeutic compounds, multi-drug resistance mechanisms, and cancer biomarkers in pancreatic and breast cancer models.
President & Professor of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Office of the President
Dr. Lori Rice-Spearman is the 9th president of TTUHSC and the first female president in the Texas Tech University System, an accomplished clinical microbiologis...
View researcher profile ↗Dean Emeritus & Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy
Dr. Quentin Smith is an internationally acclaimed neuroscientist and pharmacologist who served as dean of pharmacy, pioneering techniques for blood-brain barrie...
View researcher profile ↗Professor & Associate Dean of Sciences
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Bickel is a world authority on molecular pharmaceutics, researching receptor-mediated peptide and antibody delivery across the blood-brain barrier to treat ...
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