UW–Madison School of Pharmacy’s Jennifer Golden Designs Promising New Compounds To Fight Deadly Mosquito-Transmitted Viruses The School of Pharmacy makes a breakthrough in creating new small molecules that penetrate into the brain where the equine encephalitis viruses reside and interfere with viral replication to stop EEV. The research is funded by a new, five-year $21 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).… Read More
The Legacy of George Zografi The former School of Pharmacy dean and longtime professor left an enduring impact on research, the School, and his many students.… Read More
Gene-Editing Tool Now Being Used to Develop Better Antibiotics Assistant Professor Jason Peters created a new technique, known as Mobile-CRISPRi, that allows scientists to screen for antibiotic function in a wide range of pathogenic bacteria.… Read More
Building Better Bacteria for Bioenergy Production Assistant Professor Jason Peters receives a grant from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center to re-engineer bacteria to produce biofuel.… Read More
Reconstructing Bacterial Communities The National Science Foundation awards Assistant Professor Jason Kwan a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, funding that is granted to top young faculty in support of innovative research.… Read More
New Partnership with UW Health Strengthens Prescription Safety The School of Pharmacy’s Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station started a new collaboration with UW Health Pharmacy Services to provide sterile product testing.… Read More
New Assistant Professor Jason Peters Wins NIH Career Transition Award The National Institutes of Health is helping Assistant Professor Jason Peters get to work developing CRISPR-based tools to uncover genetic functions crucial to the life and reproduction of pathogenic bacteria.… Read More
Pharmaceutical Sciences and the New Age of ‘Comfort’ Foods Pharmaceutical Sciences alumnus Kwadwo Owusu-Ofori created a food project to people manage anxiety and attention-deficit disorders. … Read More
Alumni Support Fuels Graduate Student Success Fellowships, scholarships, and awards funded by alumni and friends advance student education in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Social and Administrative Pharmacy programs.… Read More
Former Dean Jeanette Roberts Retires from the School of Pharmacy Jeanette Roberts—a medicinal chemist, professor, mentor, and philanthropist—is retiring in January 2019 after 15 years at the School of Pharmacy, including 11 as dean.… Read More