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October 5, 2010

UM pharmacy school opens new teaching, lab building

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy today celebrated the opening of a new teaching and lab building.

The $62 million Pharmacy Hall building is located adjacent to Martin Luther King J. Blvd. on Baltimore's West side.

The seven-story building has lecture halls equipped with technology for distance learning, experiential learning facilities and research laboratories. The facility also includes a dispensing laboratory that uses robotics -- allowing pharmacists to spend more time on critical care patient duties such as medication management.

Four floors of the building will be dedicated to clinical and translational research in pharmacogenetics, nanomedicine and drug discovery.

The Maryland General Assembly approved funding for the building in 2008. The pharmacy school was looking to educate more pharmacists and "carry out more cutting-edge research."

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About Picture of Health

Meredith Cohn has been a reporter since 1991, covering everything from politics and airlines to the environment and medicine. A runner since junior high and a particular eater for almost as long, she tries to keep up on health and fitness trends. Her aim is to bring you the latest news and information from the local and national medical and wellness communities.

Andrea K. Walker knows it’s weird to some people, but she has a fascination with fitness, diseases, medicine and other health-related topics. She subscribes to a variety of health and fitness magazines and becomes easily engrossed in the latest research in health and science. An exercise fanatic, she’s probably tried just about every fitness activity there is. Her favorites are running, yoga and kickboxing. So it is probably fitting that she has been assigned to cover the business of healthcare and to become a regular contributor to this blog. Andrea has been at The Sun for nearly 10 years, covering manufacturing, retail , airlines and small and minority business. She looks forward to telling readers about the latest health news.

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