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Recognition of Research Excellence for the School of Pharmacy
Five researchers from the School of Pharmacy, UCC have been named among the top 2% of most-cited academics in their fields worldwide in the 2024 Elsevier/Stanford University World Rankings of Researchers.
- Prof Cormac Gahan: Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland & Professor in the School of Microbiology & School of Pharmacy
- Prof Brendan Griffin: Professor in Biopharmaceutics & Drug Delivery and Head of the School of Pharmacy
- Dr Piotr Kowalski: Senior Lecturer in Advanced Therapies, School of Pharmacy and Funded investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland
- Prof Caitriona O'Driscoll: Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy; Director of Future Medicines, UCC
- Prof Christian Waeber: Professor of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy; Head of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
20 years after the foundation of the School of Pharmacy at UCC, its vision remains focused on empowering leaders in pharmacy, designing new therapies, improving drug delivery, and optimizing medicine usage in clinical practice, and it is embodied by the leading roles of its academic staff in European research programs, including Horizon Europe, ERC, and Innovative Training Networks.
In parallel with development of internationally leading research programmes within the School, many of the leading researchers in the School also impact significantly in major interdisciplinary research institutes, such as APC. Two of the UCC Futures are led by PIs within the School – Future Medicines and Future Pharmaceuticals - reflecting the leadership in research within the School.
Stanford's Top 2% Scientists list is an emerging ranking that identifies scholars who are top-cited in their respective fields. It is based on an analysis of standardized citation data and citation impact across 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields using data from the Scopus database. The ranking considers scholars who have published multiple highly cited papers. It evaluates the citation impact of their work using various metrics and takes into account both career-long citation impact and the impact in a single recent year. To determine the selection, the list includes the top 100,000 scientists based on their composite indicator (c-score, with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.