About

Director's Message

The Center for Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences (CCPS) is the scientific home of pharmaceutical scientists who are passionate about advancing human health by improving medication outcomes. We conduct research at the interface of the bench and bedside to study the clinical and mechanistic elements of drug therapy.

We also are also leaders in education as one of the first programs in the world to offer a specialized PhD track in the unique discipline of clinical pharmaceutical sciences over 40 years ago.

We invite you to explore our website. Be sure to reach out to collaborate or seek training opportunities. Thanks for visiting!

Philip Empey, PharmD, PhD, FCCP
Center Director

Contact Info

Olivia Wyland
Center Administrator

Address: 210 Salk Pavilion, 335 Sutherland Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: (412) 624-5929

Email: pitt-cps@pitt.edu

Our state-of-the-art facilities spur innovation
and foster scientific collaboration

Photo from walkway between Pavilion and Salk Hall looking down into the Commons

Laboratory space and accomplishments of trainees, staff, and faculty presented

Looking into the Pharmacy Museum in Salk Hall

Photo of one Salk 456. One of several seminar rooms and lecture spaces.

Photo from the Salk Hall museum. The Salk Polio vaccine was developed in our building in 1955.

Innovative small groups learning space designed in a "flipped classroom" model — Innovative small groups learning space designed in a “flipped classroom” model

Photo of small class instruction and group work facilities

Photo of Salk Commons and RxPresso coffee shop

Photo of open-format collaborative dry lab computational space used for modeling and database work

Salk Hall

Pitt Pharmacy is located in historic Salk Hall. Our 2021 >$70M renovation transformed this space into 53,100 sq ft of state-of-the-art open laboratories, procedure rooms, equipment corridors, offices, conference rooms, and innovative teaching space.

We are located together Pitt’s six schools of the health sciences (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Public Health, and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences) and adjacent to UPMC, one of nation’s leading health care systems.

Salk Pavilion

Connected to Salk Hall is the Pavilion, a six-story, 22,850 sq foot dedicated research facility comprised of large open-format laboratories, core facilities, procedure rooms, equipment corridors, and collaborative spaces that was built in 2016.

Center offices and laboratories are located on the second floor of the Pavilion as well as in Salk Hall.

Open format laboratory space in the Center for Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences

Graduate students conducting research at the bench

Shared break room for the Center on the 2nd floor of Salk Pavilion

The Small Molecular Biomarker Core (SMBC) - a mass spectrometry laboratory in our Center — The Small Molecular Biomarker Core (SMBC) – a mass spectrometry laboratory in our Center

Mass spectrometer used for quantitation of drug and metabolite concentrations

Magee-Womens Research Institute

Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) is the nation’s largest freestanding research institute dedicated to women’s health and reproductive biology. Center faculty create safe and effective medicines that women can use to protect themselves from infections and other health issues.

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center – a highly prestigious classification for cancer centers in the U.S.

Center faculty direct the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Facility (CPPF) to provide accessible, economical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art pharmacology research services to support preclinical and clinical research programs nationwide.