Week 2 of Saturday Academy was a success! Our graduate students and faculty educated our high school scholars on this week’s theme - clinical trials, and we guided our them through activities related to diversity in clinical trials and social determinants of health. Looking forward to next week! @usc_mann@uscmann_osw@thepainpharmacist
Launched the 4th annual SCOPE Saturday Academy this weekend and welcomed 28 Los Angeles High School students (SCOPE Scholars) to USC Mann. Our graduate students and faculty educated them on this week’s theme - research and academia, we explored career options in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, and they started the pharmaceutical discovery project. Looking forward to next week! @usc_mann@uscmann_osw@thepainpharmacist
Announcing, with great gratitude - for the second year our program is a recipient of a grant from USC Good Neighbors Campaign! It’s such an amazing program and we are so happy to be a part of it, giving back to our local communities and helping Los Angeles youth navigate toward careers in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.
Our team is excited for a great academic year! @usc_mann@uscmann_osw
SCOPE has gone international! We were so excited to share data from our Saturday Academy and Mentorship programs at the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Copenhagen. #fipcongress #fip2025
Authors include Luis Larios, PharmD, MS, RPh, Evans D. Pope, III, Alexander Cantres González, Siara Magee, Faith Pogosyan, Diana Aroutiounian, and Melissa Durham @thepainpharmacist
Amazing work by our student leaders at @usc_mann and @uscmann_osw !
Happy fall semester, USC Mann students! 🍂❤️💛 We are excited to announce that we are now taking applications for SCOPE Ambassadors for the 2025-2026 academic year. If you are interested, please scan the QR code or utilize the link on the flyer. If you have any questions, please feel free to email [email protected]. Fight on!
We presented our research on the mentorship pillar of USC Mann’s @usc_mann Southern California Outreach for Pharmacy Education (SCOPE) at this year’s American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) @aacpharmacy Annual Meeting #pharmed25 in Chicago. Pictured - Dr. Melissa Durham, student leaders Siara Magee, Diana Aroutiounian, and Faith Pogosyan
Family, friends, and USC Mann students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend the last day of our SCOPE Saturday Academy!
Join us as our SCOPE Scholars present their final projects! Reception immediately to follow.
Scan the QR code to access the virtual stream and links to each group’s presentation. Link also in bio!
This past week our Scholars learned about Pharmaceutical Compounding and Drug Manufacturing. They were able to participate in a hands-on compounding lab.
Housed under the departments of Recruitment & Outreach and the Office of Organizational Success and Well-being, SCOPE aims to educate and empower high school students from underrepresented backgrounds to explore pharmacy & pharmaceutical sciences pathways. Students at USC Mann, lead our efforts as SCOPE ambassadors in our three programs: High School Outreach, SCOPE Saturday Academy, and Mentorship. Find out more about these programs, and how you can get involved or support our SCOPE ambassadors and high school SCOPE scholars: LINK IN BIO
We’re now at the halfway mark of Saturday Academy! This weekend our Scholars took a deeper dive into what careers in the pharmaceutical industry look like and the different educational backgrounds that are utilized.
Now that their drug’s clinical trials are complete, they began designing their product packaging. This required understanding all the most essential elements of the medication such as the instructions for usage, dose, storage instructions, active ingredients and more! In preparation for market launch they contemplated how to price their product after a mini-lecture on American insurance and formularies 💊🏥
After our Scholar’s FDA submission for their new drug, they learned about clinical trials and social determinants of health (SDOH).
To get a full understanding of clinical trials, we traveled back to time to discuss important historical context. We reviewed the Tuskegee Study, in order to highlight the importance of ethical considerations in clinical research and examine the lasting effects it had.
The session addressed challenges in recruiting diverse populations for trials and the Scholars engaged in group work analyzing SDOH in order to design a Phase 3 clinical trial proposal aimed at increasing diversity.
This past Saturday we welcomed our third annual cohort of SCOPE Scholars to Saturday Academy! We kicked off the program by introducing their new pharmaceutical drug development project which means six new pharmaceutical companies were founded: JAMEV INC, Xcut Center, Health Haven, CureNova Pharmaceutics, Zonaceks, Daisy Stars Blue. We learned about the scientific process, how to examine laboratory data, and what disease states each group will be targeting to treat. Follow our journey on taking a new molecule from benchtop to bedside!
