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Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Science (RXRS)
- D class assignments available; Email: pharmug@usc.edu.
- D class assignments for undergraduates available; Email: pharmug@usc.edu.
- Closed course: maximum capacity in the classroom reached. Please monitor registration portal. .
Pharmacology and Drug Development explored through the lens of Clinical Pharmacy, Translational and Bench Research, Regulatory Science and Global Policy and Economics.
- Note: If you add the class after week 1, please reach out to your professors regarding any missed assignments.
Global perspectives; discovery and use of drugs (legal/illegal); poisons. How they helped shape, modify or change history as described in classical literature through present day.
- Note: Students who add the course in weeks 2/3 are responsible for course requirements up to that date.
How drugs impact culture in individual, society and global communities
- Note: If the class is closed, maximum capacity in the room has been reached. rissa@usc.edu for more info.
The story of poisons told through the prism of history, as a way to discover forensic toxicology.
Principles of human pharmacology/toxicology related to prescription, over the counter medications; nutraceuticals; drug-drug interactions; polypharmacy; hot topics related to recently approved drugs.
- Note: If the class is closed, maximum capacity in the room has been reached
Neurological basis of addiction to drugs of abuse including alcohol, marijuana, opioids and sugar, focusing on neuropharmacology and challenges of current and future therapies.
- Note: If the class is closed, maximum capacity in the room has been reached.
Comprehensive Medication Management Applications in Pharmacotherapy; evidence-based, pharmacist driven medication selection; improved and/or optimized medication therapy; patient compliance; better and safer health outcomes.
Cancer and the complex molecular basis leading to tumor oncogenesis, invasion and metastasis; current therapeutic strategies and strategies on the horizon.
Ethical and moral issues have arisen from responsibilities within different fields of pharmaceutical practice. Exploration of the broad solutions those responsibilities have presented.
- Note: If the class is closed, maximum capacity in the room has been reached.
Progress of medical product development through intellectual property, animal and clinical trials and commercialization. Emphasis on safety, quality systems and efficacy.
- Note: If the class is closed, maximum capacity in the room has been reached.
Critical thinking, science translation, effective communications, personal health, and public policy development are at the interface of food safety, nutrition intervention and health controversies
Overview of the regulatory, guidance, and compliance activities with federal, state and local governments as well as pharmaceutical industry.
Fundamental principles and practices of pharmacy compounding and calculations, medication preparation, regulatory aspects of compounding
Individual research, reading, writing and project development.
- Note: A completed 490 directed research application form required. Applications must be submitted no later than 4 pm (Pacific Time) on the day BEFORE the last day to register for sessions 001 or 059. Return to Dr. Randa Issa rissa@usc.edu. NOTE: Click on syllabus for application and instructions.
Exciting and challenging opportunity to marshal and deploy research, analysis, interpretation and writing skills students learned in their major.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Pharmacology and Drug Development
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior
- Restriction: Registration open to the following school(s): Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
An independent study course for students undertaking the research and writing of an Honors thesis.
- Prerequisite: RXRS 493
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Pharmacology and Drug Development
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior
- Restriction: Registration open to the following school(s): Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
