School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The UCPH School of Pharmaceutical Sciences is part of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), located at the university's North Campus on the border between Nørrebro and Østerbro. It is organized into two departments. The institution traces its origins to the Pharmaceutical College, founded in 1892 as a private initiative by Christian Ditlev Ammentorp Hansen, with a building designed by Andreas Clemmesen in Stockholmsgade. In 1942 it relocated to its current site in the University Park and was renamed the Danish Pharmaceutical College. Its name changed again to Danmarks Farmaceutiske Universitet in 2003, and in 2007 it merged into the University of Copenhagen as the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. It took its current name in 2012 upon becoming a school under the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The main building, designed by Kaj Gottlob in 1942, was expanded in 2015 with a new Pharma Science Building by Cf. Møller Architects. The school offers BSc, MSc, and continuing education programmes, including the Drug Research Academy, and maintains its own library, the UCPH Pharmaceutical Sciences Library, part of the CULIS collaboration.