Overview

The College of Pharmacy is one of the important medical colleges, as it supports medical institutions and privet health sectors in Iraq with a qualified and scientific-distinguished pharmacists who practice and deliver medical services and accurate pharmaceutical concepts based on solid academic foundations. This college aims, through the distinguished development of its affiliates, to advance the scientific performance of students and to enhance their abilities and creative aspects, starting from basics of pharmaceutical concepts.

    The College of Pharmacy was founded on 7/27/2011 through the efforts of its establishing dean, Prof. Dr. Mushtaq Taleb Al-Nida and its creative establishing staff. At the beginning of establishment, the college incorporates four scientific branches: pharmacology and therapeutics, pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacognosy, supportive medical sciences, medical microbiology and biotechnology, then the departments were divided to six scientific branches: pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacognosy and medicinal plants, pharmacology and toxicology, clinical laboratory sciences, and clinical pharmacy.

   The teaching staff of College of Pharmacy incorporates thirty-nine professors. Some of them were sent into fellowships outside Iraq to complete their master’s or doctoral degrees as well as post-doctoral degrees in the United Kingdom and United States of America. The College of Pharmacy incorporates twenty-two self-motivated employees.

Many important scientific projects have been accomplished in the college. These include the establishment of the house of laboratory animals, the development of advanced scientific and research laboratories, the Internet unit, and the medicinal plant farm, as well as other important projects. For future plans, the college administration plans to start postgraduate studies, establishing an advanced drug monitoring centre, and issuance of a Journal specialised in pharmaceutical sciences.