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The South Carolina College of Pharmacy is home to five research centers, including three recognized by the State of South Carolina as Centers of Economic Excellence (CoEEs):
The Center for Cell Death, Injury and Regeneration was established in 2006 and provides imaging facility through the use of five confocal microscopes which are also a part of the Hollings Cell and Molecular Imaging Facility. The center also is home to a multiwell plate reader. Ongoing projects in the center’s laboratory using the microscopes include Intravital Imaging of Liver Function using Multiphoton Microscopy, Autophagy/Mitophagy, Mitochondrial Permeability Transition
(MPT) and Luminescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy.
Director: John J. Lemasters
Endowed Chair in Advanced Technologies
Drug Discovery Core CoEE
The Drug Discovery Core provides a mechanism for faculty, postdocs and students to discover chemical agents that affect targets that they hypothesize to be involved in human diseases. The Drug Discovery Core provides the following resources: expertise for assay development; chemical libraries; instrumentation for high-throughput screening, including robotic liquid-handling and state-of-the-art cell imaging, and technical support for screening.
Director: Charles D. Smith
Charles and Carol Cooper Chair in Pharmacy
Kennedy Center for Pharmacy Innovation
The William P. and Lou W. Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center was established in 2010. The Kennedy Center will combine the nation's top minds in health care entrepreneurship, health sciences, communications and other disciplines with leading pharmacy practice faculty. The SCCP is putting together the team of faculty and advisers who will design the specific program content, which will have components of education, enrichment and discovery. Likely specifics may include scholarships for students, an endowed chair, fellowships, a Kennedy lecture series, specialized training and additional entrepreneurial courses and certifications.
Medication Safety and Efficacy CoEE
The Center for Medication Safety and Efficacy was created in 2005 and provides the most current information, resources, and programs to help people understand the incidence, implications, and costs of adverse drug effects (ADEs), while providing useful tools, services, and solutions to improve drug safety and effectiveness – particularly for those most susceptible - children and seniors. The Center’s objectives are attained both through research and education/outreach.
Director: Charles Bennett
Endowed Chair in Medication Safety and Efficacy
Palmetto Poison Center
The Palmetto Poison Center (PPC), located in Columbia, serves all 46 counties in South Carolina and receives over 37,000 calls per year for information and advice. The PPC provides services free-of-charge to the public and health professionals 24 hours-a-day, 365 days a year, and was awarded certification as a Regional Poison Center by the American Association of Poison Control Centers in 2006. Only 61 centers nationally have met the requirements for this designation. The PPC is
staffed by healthcare professionals, including pharmacists and nurses, who are formally trained in toxicology as specialists in poison information.
Director: Jill Michels
Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences
SCORxE (South Carolina Offering Prescribing Excellence)
SCORxE, Medicaid’s academic detailing program in South Carolina, is a collaborative effort between the South Carolina College of Pharmacy (SCCP) and the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS). The program is the first of its kind in the state and one of fewer than five in the country. Academic detailing is a service-oriented outreach for healthcare providers that offers an accurate, up-to-date synthesis of relevant drug information in a balanced format.
SCORxE’s mission is to improve the quality of care for South Carolina Medicaid patients in the most cost effective manner by promoting quality, evidence-based drug therapy and best practices through face-to-face communication with providers.
Director: Sarah Ball
Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences
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