A Million-Dollar Gift to Support Education at the UIC College of Pharmacy

A Million-Dollar Gift to Support Education at the UIC College of Pharmacy

At the College of Pharmacy, we take pride in reinventing the landscape of pharmacy practice and blazing trails in pharmaceutical research. As such, the college is thrilled to partner with the UI Cancer Center, the State of Illinois, and the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) on a new initiative by the University of Illinois System to construct the Drug Discovery and Cancer Research Pavilion (DDCRP), a state-of-the-art facility to house emerging areas of translational research. The Drug Discovery and Cancer Research Pavilion will bring together industry partners, UIC researchers, and students/trainees to create the collaborative environment necessary to drive innovative therapeutic discovery.

The new building, slated for groundbreaking by the end of 2022, will also feature a state-of-the-art lecture hall, to be located on the second-story bridge from the DDCRP to the existing College of Pharmacy, thanks to the generosity of Adesh Vora, PharmD ’00, president and CEO, SRx Health Solutions. “The Adesh Vora Family Auditorium will provide much-needed additional teaching and conference space for our Chicago campus and additional momentum for this once-in-a-lifetime project on the Chicago campus,” noted Dean Glen Schumock.

When asked what prompted him to make a gift, Dr. Vora noted, “I have immense gratitude to UIC’s College of Pharmacy for its first-class curriculum and encouraging environment that fosters and celebrates diversity, freethinking, and innovation. I believe I would be remiss not to acknowledge that UIC has played a role in my becoming the passionate clinician and entrepreneur that I am today. May this gift not only serve as a token of my appreciation but as a step towards sustaining UIC’s comprehensive excellence and to support the College of Pharmacy’s mission.”

Vora Family