Mission:

 “The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences mission is to improve human health by promoting academic excellence, creating innovative educational and research opportunities, and providing visionary leadership in the pharmaceutical sciences through education, scholarship, and service.”

Vision:

“The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences envisions a demand for future healthcare providers, pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists that can understand, develop, or modify existing and new drug therapies based on sound scientific principles and discoveries that are integrated into practice to deliver personalized medicine. As such, we believe that the Department will be a catalyst for creating innovative educational and research opportunities among existing academic health centers and biotechnology companies in Middle Tennessee that are dedicated to translational research initiatives in the areas of drug discovery, formulation, disposition and response.”