Alumnus Kyle Kleinbeck finds his calling working in the nonprofit pharmaceutical industry producing HIV prevention and contraceptive devices.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
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.
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.
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.
$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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.