Reception to Honor New Pharmacy Dean
WHAT: The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) will host a reception to officially welcome new School of Pharmacy Dean Quentin Smith, Ph.D.
WHEN: 4:30 to 6 p.m., Wednesday (Dec. 5)
WHERE: TTUHSC Pharmacy Academic Building, 1300 S. Coulter St.
EVENT: Smith previously served as the School of Pharmacy’s senior associate dean. TTUHSC honored Smith as a University Distinguished Professor in 2007, and in 2009 he was named the sixth recipient of the Grover E. Murray Professorship, the highest honor TTUHSC bestows upon its faculty members.
Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in pharmacology
from the University of Utah. Prior to his recruitment, Smith served as chief of the
Section on Neurochemistry and Brain Transport, Laboratory of Neurosciences, National
Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.
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