Overview

The Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development (MDD) is a pharmaceutical sciences thesis-based research program offered in collaboration with the College of Pharmacy of the University of Arizona (UA). The master’s program focuses on three major disciplines associated with preclinical drug development including drug design and synthesis, drug delivery, pharmacology, and pharmacogenomics. The new program aims to develop expertise in multidisciplinary drug discovery research and in-depth understanding of the future directions of the drug discovery process.