Warren Rose, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, will address “Antibiotic Resistance: No Longer Just a Hospital Problem,” to an informal group at the Science on Tap-Minoqua series on Wednesday, May 6. The …
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Kwon named regional editor
Glen Kwon, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was selected to be a Regional Editor for the journal Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology publishes original manuscripts, reviews, thematic issues, rapid technical notes and commentaries that provide …
Impacting health care: Older adults and OTC medications
Health care regimens for older adults often include the use of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medication. Among older adults at risk of a major adverse drug event, nearly half of the instances were because of …
Bugni contributes to interdisciplinary international research grant
An International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), led by Professor Jon Clardy and Harvard Medical School, and Professor Monica Tallarico Pupo, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will discover and …
Shiyanbola selected for NIH health sciences scholars program
Olayinka Shiyanbola, assistant professor, Social and Administrative Sciences Division, has been accepted to the first cohort of NIH Scholars of the Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences. The goal of the program …
Impacting health care: focus on older adults
As our population ages, attention focuses on ways to improve health outcomes for older adults, and to prevent injuries and harm. For older adults, falls are common and costly. Falls are caused by many things, …
Li named Vilas Professor
Lingjun Li, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division has been appointed a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. The newly-created professorship recognizes professors whose distinguished scholarship has advanced the confines of knowledge, and whose excellence has also …
deVilliers to serve on AACP Board
Melgardt de Villiers, professor (CHS), in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was elected Secretary of the Pharmaceutics Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). AACP is structured as a democratic organization with decision-making …
Faculty provide expertise for drug card book
Pharmacy Practice Division faculty Jill Kolesar, professor (CHS) and Director, 3P Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory, UW Carbone Cancer Center, and Lee Vermeulen, clinical professor and Director, Center for Clinical Knowledge Management, UW Health, are editors of …
Jiang wins Young Chemical Biologist Award
Jiaoyang Jiang, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has received the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) 2014 Young Chemical Biologist Award for her outstanding achievement as a young investigator in chemical biology. Jiang’s research …