UNMC Center for Drug Discovery and Lozier Center for Pharmacy Sciences and Education

New UNMC pharmacy building features world-leading lab, educational facilities

The 85,000-square-foot new building houses both state-of-the-art research space, and state-of-the-art education space with next-generation technology to prepare future pharmacists for the changing health care landscape, using UNMC’s innovative educational model.

The type of work done on the new building’s third floor is the embodiment of the medical center’s mission to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities.

“A focus on drug discovery in infectious diseases is critically important to global human health,” said Courtney Fletcher, Pharm.D., the College of Pharmacy’s dean.

On the first and second floors, experiential learning spaces, like a model pharmacy, simulation suites, a compounding lab and a sterile product preparation lab, will enhance the educational experience of those trained here. 

Press Kit Documents

• Press release
• Fast facts
• Why infectious disease?
• Building design
• Floor plans
• What others are saying
• Ruth and Bill Scott Bio
• Lozier Foundation
• Joe Williams Bio
• Full donor list

Sound bites

• “New home for the College of Pharmacy” (26 seconds)
  Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., chancellor, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  “Having a new home for the college of pharmacy is a really important piece for building the future for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine. It’s really critical that we not only ensure the future workforce for the state and the region but we also have the science and the scholarship that goes together, that creates the new discoveries in the areas of pharmaceuticals and new drugs that will create a healthier population.”
   
• “Drug discovery” (28 seconds)
  Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., chancellor, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  “The health care delivery systems of the United States depend increasingly on effective medications that prevent people from developing diseases or help them deal with them more successfully. The College of Pharmacy has had a tremendous amount of success in developing new drugs and new processes of developing drugs. This new home has within its research laboratories some of the finest new technology to continue to grow that.”
   
• “Leader in Pharmacy Education and Research” (30 seconds)
  Courtney Fletcher, Pharm.D., dean, UNMC College of Pharmacy 
  “This building opens in the 101st birthdate of the College of Pharmacy. And over those 101 years we’ve been a leader in pharmacy education and pharmacy research. What this building does is really advance our mission to do that. To create new knowledge, up on our drug discovery floors, in both drug discovery, in development, in delivery. And how we educate pharmacy students, to meet the needs of Nebraska.”