Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers' pharmaceutical company, was the developer of OxyContin, a version of the opioid analgesic compound, oxycodone.

Each year the school has presented the Sackler Prize for a significant contribution to the fields of physics or chemistry.

[1] Tel Aviv University received public pressure to remove the Sackler name from the name of the medical school due to ongoing controversy regarding the Sackler family and their alleged role in and lawsuits pertaining to the marketing and, consequently, the overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin.

[2][3][4] In 2019, Physicians for Human Rights–Israel said it had sent a letter to the dean of the Sackler School of Medicine requesting that the family’s name be removed.

The goal of the program is to provide graduates with a comprehensive academic foundation in the science of human disease and the clinical skills needed for diagnoses and treatment.