How the Lost Boys of Pharmacology Found Their Way A group of alumni from the Drug Action Core united around a common, unusual experience that inspired them to give back.… Read More
Pharmaceutical Science, Nonprofit Mission Alumnus Kyle Kleinbeck finds his calling working in the nonprofit pharmaceutical industry producing HIV prevention and contraceptive devices.… Read More
Two Faculty Honored with Prestigious Vilas Awards Vilas Investigator Awards allow Weiping Tang and Jiaoyang Jiang to expand their research labs to pursue new opportunities.… Read More
Designing Answers, One Compound at a Time Assistant Professor Jennifer Golden builds chemistry-centered collaborations to design and deploy new drug-like compounds to address pressing biological questions.… Read More
$30 Million NIH Award will Help Tackle the Toughest Pathogens Professor Tim Bugni and his colleagues receive $30 million grant from the NIH to take aim at the growing threat of multi-drug-resistant pathogens for which few — or no — treatment options exist.… Read More
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