The new College of Pharmacy building will be the first academic building constructed as part of the University of Kentucky’s academic medical campus of the future, a 20-year, $2.5 billion expansion project on the south side of campus that will further accelerate research and health education in Kentucky.

The cornerstone of the expansion plan will be the $450 million UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital being built in two phases allowing for the step-by-step replacement of the existing hospital. The first phase of construction for the new hospital has begun, with the building of a new parking garage for patients and their families that will be completed in late 2007.

Other features will include additional research buildings, like the Biomedical Biological Science Research Building (BBSRB), a shared Health Sciences Learning Center, where students from different health disciplines would interact and learn together, and buildings to house the colleges of medicine, dentistry, nursing, health sciences and public health.

.A Tradition of Excellence
The UK College of Pharmacy is ranked 8th among all pharmacy programs in the U.S. and has been ranked among the top 10 for more than two decades. The College offers the four-year professional Pharm.D. program which currently enrolls more than 450 future pharmacists including 90 percent in-state students. It also offers the Ph.D. graduate program in pharmaceutical sciences and pharmaceutical policy. More than 65 students from Kentucky and across the globe are enrolled in the prestigious program that educates future scientists for careers in the pharmaceutical industry, government and academia. The College has more than 5,200 alumni serving in a wide range of positions from community and hospital pharmacists to academic leaders including deans at many other pharmacy schools as well as pharmaceutical industry leaders.