Pharmacy Compounding Foundation

Student Scholarship Opportunities

The Pharmacy Compounding Foundation provides three scholarship opportunities for current pharmacy students:

Pharmacy Compounding Foundation and Pharmacists Mutual Compounding Scholarship

Through the generosity of the Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company, the Pharmacy Compounding Foundation awards up to two (2) $2,500 scholarships to pharmacy students who have demonstrated commitment to a career in compounding pharmacy in the United States.

The Pharmacy Compounding Foundation and Pharmacists Mutual Compounding Scholarship is a scholarship program sponsored by Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company and the Pharmacy Compounding Foundation.

Applicants must meet all of the following criteria to be considered:

  1. Be currently enrolled in an accredited school or college of pharmacy in the United States. 
  2. Be a P3 or P4 student pharmacist in the 2023-24 academic year.
  3. Have worked in or completed a rotation in a compounding pharmacy.
  4. Plan to practice in:
    1. an independent or small chain compounding pharmacy in an urban or underserved geographic area,
    2. hospital pharmacy,
    3. homecare pharmacy, or
    4. in the armed forces of the United States
  5. Be in good academic standing, earning a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent grading system) in professional coursework during pharmacy school.
  6. Be in good standing with the college. Students with disciplinary action are not eligible. 
  7. Complete and submit the electronic scholarship application prior to the posted deadline. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered for the scholarship. 
  8. May not be a previous Pharmacists Mutual scholarship recipient. This includes scholarships funded by Pharmacists Mutual itself and those Pharmacists Mutual student scholarships awarded by other organizations. 

All applications must be submitted by April 30, 2024 at 11:59pm EDT.  Please contact the Pharmacy Compounding Foundation at foundation@a4pc.org with any questions.

Applicants will be notified of results by May 31, 2024. Scholarship winners will be announced to the public via pre-recorded video during APC’s Compounders on Capitol Hill in September 2024.

2023 Winners

Olivia Behnfeldt
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH

Courtney Ma
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL

2022 Winners

Ryan DeGuzman
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Va.

Kaitlin Martin
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

2021 Winners:

Jacob Sweet
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Rootstown, OH

Marianne Vandiver
Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy
Clinton, SC

2020 Winners:

Brianna Hassett
PharmD Candidate 2021Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, OK

Natalia Swiderski
PharmD Candidate 2020Farleigh Dickinson University
Florham Park, NJ

Foundation Fund-the-Future Program

The foundation’s Fund-the-Future program awards grants to pharmacy students.

March 1, 2022: We’re updating the program for 2022 and beyond — watch this space or look for an email from APC (or in the weekly Compounding Connections) for more information. 

Previous Fund-the-Future Winners

2020 and 2021: Due to Covid-19, the Pharmacy Compounding Foundation did not award any Fund-the-Future scholarships for 2020 or 2021.

2019 Compounders on Capitol Hill

Jacklyn Altman; University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, Columbia, SC
Meredith Kelderhouse; University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, Columbia, SC

2019 EduCon

Omar Fuentes; The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, Austin, TX
Elio Magero; Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY

Read what former recipients have to say about the Fund the Future scholarship experience.

Foundation Student Writing Competition

The foundation’s semi-annual Student Writing Competition to recognize outstanding original papers by student pharmacists on a particular topic affecting pharmacy compounding. Up to two winners will be selected by a review committee from the papers submitted. The winners of this writing competition will each receive a $1,000 cash prize. All student pharmacists are encouraged to compete.

The Pharmacy Compounding Foundation is no longer awarding any Student Writing Competition scholarships.

Previous Student Writing Competition Winners

Theme: “With the increase in healthcare costs and reduced rate of insurance reimbursements, how do compounding pharmacies remain competitive?”

Alexandra Gochenauer; University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Ryan Waldschmidt; Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH