College of Pharmacy Celebrates Grand Opening of Skaggs Center Expansion - Feb. 21, 2020
Ribbon cutting for the renovated and expanded Skaggs Center, from left to right: University of Arizona Foundation President and CEO JP Roczniak; donor Richard Katz; donor Ken Coit; UArizona College of Pharmacy Dean Rick Schnellmann, PhD; Ronny Cutshall, president of The ALSAM Foundation, which was established by the Skaggs family; UArizona Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Michael D. Dake, MD; UArizona Provost Liesl Folks, PhD, MBA; UArizona President Robert C. Robbins, MD.
On Feb. 21, 2020, the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy opened its renovated and expanded Skaggs Center. It will serve as a home for the recently established Arizona Center for Drug Discovery, new laboratories with the latest technology for pharmacology research, and the History of Pharmacy Museum expansion to reopen in a dedicated space later in 2020. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, researchers offered tours through the new space.
Ribbon cutting for the renovated and expanded Skaggs Center, from left to right: University of Arizona Foundation President and CEO JP Roczniak; donor Richard Katz; donor Ken Coit; UArizona College of Pharmacy Dean Rick Schnellmann, PhD; Ronny Cutshall, president of The ALSAM Foundation, which was established by the Skaggs family; UArizona Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Michael D. Dake, MD; UArizona Provost Liesl Folks, PhD, MBA; UArizona President Robert C. Robbins, MD.
The exterior of the newly expanded Skaggs Center, which is home to new chemistry and biology laboratories and will support drug discovery research.
College of Pharmacy Dean Rick Schnellmann, PhD, speaks at the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the expanded and renovated Skaggs Center.
University of Arizona Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, Michael D. Dake, MD, speaks about the future of drug discovery with the opening of new Skaggs chemistry and biology laboratories.
University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins, MD, listens to researcher Chris Foley (center) talk about Alzheimer’s research.
Donors take tours through the Skaggs expansion.
College of Pharmacy Dean Rick Schnellmann, PhD, and donor Richard Katz.
Glassware in a laboratory in the newly-expanded Skaggs Center.
A lab worker shakes up a compound in one of the new College of Pharmacy laboratories being used for drug discovery research.
College of Pharmacy Dean Rick Schnellmann, PhD, stands in new chemistry laboratory in the Skaggs building.
College of Pharmacy Dean Rick Schnellmann, PhD, and donor Richard Katz.
Jun Wang, PhD, speaks to a tour group about his research in virus vaccinations.
Jun Wang, PhD, looks at cell cultures in the expanded Skaggs research center.
Jun Wang, PhD, walks from a chemistry laboratory into a biology laboratory in the expanded Skaggs research center.
University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins, MD, congratulates the College of Pharmacy on the Skaggs expansion and renovation project.
The exterior of the newly expanded Skaggs Center, which is home to new chemistry and biology laboratories and will support drug discovery research.