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pharmacy pharmacy pharmacy pharmacyDonors Dr. Charles D. Bauer and his wife, Mary Schweitzer Bauer ’47D’YOUVILLE’S school of pharmacy receives Critical FundingThe primary goal of D’Youville College’sSchool of Pharmacy is to develop qualitypractitioners of pharmacy with a strongfocus on patient-centered care. It is ourgoal to combine the talents and interestsof its faculty and resources of the College,to create a vibrant and productive researchenvironment that will become an incubatorfor innovative pharmaceutical discoveries,an avenue for students to be trained in thescientific method, and a means for them tobe exposed to and participate in cuttingedgeresearch.The School of Pharmacy’s pharmaceuticalresearch programs are being modeled onthe principles that created Roswell ParkCancer Institute. Dr. Roswell Park oncewrote, “Only through a deliberate wellplanned,combined attack from variousdirections by means fitted for suchwork could real advances be made. Therelationship of laboratory work, clinicalstudy and education must be closelyassociated.” Dr. Park championed a novelconcept: the creation of an institute wherean idea can go from pen and paper, to theround-bottom flask, to animal studies andthen to the clinic.By combining the expertise and researchinterests of its current faculty, the schoolhas the ability to replicate this model,and now through the gracious gift of Dr.Charles D. Bauer and his wife, MarySchweitzer Bauer ’47, it also has the means.With their generous donation, the schoolstrategically targeted and purchased piecesof equipment that are critical to the basicsteps of drug discovery and development.The school has acquired instrumentationthat is germane to rational drug design,high throughput screening, leadoptimization and formulation development.In essence, this gift provides the schoolwith the resources to design rationallytheoretical drugs, conduct the synthesis ofthe desired drug candidates, rapidly screenfor biological activity across a variety ofmolecular targets, focus on more promisingdrugs and determine the best vehicle for thedelivery of these agents in vivo.With its current faculty and this donation,the school has finally reached a criticalmass in talent and tools. It has recentlysubmitted three proposals in basicpharmaceutical research and has garneredthe interest of a variety of its students toassist in its research endeavors.The School of Pharmacy is grateful forthis private support and will do its utmostto uphold the donors’ high expectations ofthis new program.WALGREENS RENEWS funDINGIn October 2011, Karen Mlodeozeniec,district pharmacy supervisor for Walgreens,presented D’Youville College with a second$10,000 donation as part of their $1 milliongiving campaign to support diversity amongpharmacy school students. Walgreensrequires that $2,000 of the $10,000 awardbe used in the form of a WalgreensDiversity Scholarship and given directlyto a student selected by the College whohas demonstrated a commitment to raisingawareness of diversity and communityoutreach. The remaining $8,000 will beused to develop, implement and supportprograms at the College that will have aMs. Mlodeozeniec of Walgreens (right) is proudto present a second check to Sister Denise.positive impact and inspire more diversityin D’Youville’s student body.This commitment reflects Walgreens’continued growth in the country’s mostdiverse communities. Today, less than 12percent of students pursuing pharmacydegrees are minorities. Walgreens hopesmore students will be encouraged to considerthe contributions they could make as frontlinehealth professionals in America’scorner drugstores. “As our country’s needfor pharmacy services continues to rise,so does its need for dedicated communitypharmacists to serve an increasingly diversepatient base,” said Walgreens chairman andCEO Jeffrey A. Rein.4