The Department brings together teachers and researchers from disciplines that are involved in research and drug development in all its aspects. The scientific activity of the Department is divided into the following areas of research with a high innovation content: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Organic Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.

The Department has in place profitable collaborations and with other national and international universities, both with research institutions and major industries in the sector, which give it the characteristics of a cutting-edge facility in research on the drug.

at the Department of pharmaceutical Sciences are part of a Doctorate in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical technologies and numerous master. These postgraduate initiatives result in a stimulating climate of confrontation between young people interested in issues of departmental research.