About

The BAU Faculty of Pharmacy was established to train highly qualified students in the field of health and to conduct world-class R&D studies aimed at developing innovative drugs for various diseases.

Founding Purpose of the BAU Faculty of Pharmacy

• By training competent professionals for the sector, the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Pharmacy will make a major contribution to our country's goal, in line with its 2023 strategic targets, of first reducing the current account deficit in the innovative pharmaceutical sector and then turning it into a surplus.
• The Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Pharmacy was established to train competent pharmacists who will take part in every stage of drug discovery from scratch, a process with a total cost of up to 1.5 billion dollars.

What Sets the BAU Faculty of Pharmacy Apart

• The BAU Faculty of Pharmacy will work in close collaboration with the 13 R&D centers at our university and will make intensive efforts to close the gap in competent professionals who can carry out "original drug discovery and development activities" in the sector.
• Recognizing the importance of original drug discovery research will show that there are opportunities beyond training "community pharmacists", one of the goals of the classical pharmacy faculty.
• The "Computational Drug Design Center - HİTMER", led by the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Medicine and supported by the Istanbul Development Agency (İSTKA) in 2021, will be one of the greatest strengths of our Faculty. This center will pave the way for drug discovery studies developed in collaboration with various pharmaceutical companies.
• The BAU Faculty of Pharmacy will set itself apart through its distinguished academic staff, industry collaborations, research-oriented education system, and infrastructure and facilities for education and R&D.

Computer-Aided Drug Design Studies

Today, when only one out of millions of molecules tested over many years can become a drug, computer-aided drug design studies and artificial intelligence-based drug development and identification studies have gained momentum in recent years to save both time and the cost of tests amounting to millions of dollars. Computer-aided drug design will be one of the priority research areas of the BAU Faculty of Pharmacy. To this end, effective national and international projects will be developed through strong collaborations with the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences – Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering, as well as the relevant departments of the Faculty of Medicine at Bahçeşehir University.

Working in coordination with the Computational Drug Design Center, led by the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Medicine and supported by İSTKA, the Faculty will focus on artificial intelligence-based drug development training, and through compulsory and elective courses students will be enabled to master at least one programming language (Python, C, etc.) alongside their professional courses.