Hosting Faculties
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy
Pharmacy is a multidisciplinary field of science. It specialises in medicinal treatment and studies drugs, medicines and their development, use and effects mainly from the point of view of natural sciences, health sciences, as well as social sciences. The task of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Helsinki is to promote pharmaceutical research and provide the highest education in the field in Finland. The Faculty offers Bachelor’s, Master’s and postgraduate programmes. The Faculty also provides professional postgraduate education in industrial pharmacy for those with a Bachelor or Master’s degree in pharmacy and plays an active part in the continuing education in the field. The Faculty is also nationally responsible for the Swedish-language Master’s programmes in Pharmacy.
University of Eastern Finland, School of Pharmacy
The mission of the School of Pharmacy is to teach pharmaceutical subjects at the highest educational level, and to promote scientific research into drugs and the application of this research for the benefit of society at large. The School of Pharmacy at the University of Eastern Finland started in the present form in 2010, but was originally founded in 1973 in the University of Kuopio. The staff is about 150, and approximately 700 graduate students aspire towards Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Pharmacy degrees. We also run the Master’s Degree Programme in General Toxicology and Environmental Health Risk Assessment. In addition, there are about 100 post graduate students in the School, who conduct their advanced studies towards the Ph. D. degree. The Pharmacy curriculum is divided under seven disciplines: Social Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biopharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Clinical Pharmacology. The last discipline is mainly for the students of Medicine and Dentistry, since the School has university wide responsibility for the teaching of Pharmacology. The School also houses the Drug Research and Development Centre, which offers a dynamic and flexible model for industrial collaboration. 
