Glen Kwon, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Co-D Therapeutics, a University of Wisconsin–Madison spinoff, is developing a three-drug cocktail to battle a wide range of cancers.
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Golden project selected for UW2020 Award
An innovative research proposal from Jennifer Golden, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division and Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry Center, was among a topnotch group of faculty to receive the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative Award. …
Li among campus researchers to establish new center
Together with Josh Coon and Dave Pagliarini, Lingjun Li, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, have just received a $5.6M NIH P41 center grant to establish a National Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems …
Kwon’s research spotlighted in preeminent chemistry journal
An article authored by Glen Kwon, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, along with Tony Tam, PhD graduate student, and Jieming Gao, post-doctoral researcher, both members of his lab, was published online
Tang’s prolific publication pace is recognized by top journal
Weiping Tang, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and Co-Director of Medicinal Chemistry Center, was highlighted in the July 7, 2016 edition of “Angewandte Chemie International Edition.”
Mecozzi and Taylor awarded NIH R21 grant to explore fluorous nanoemulsions
Sandro Mecozzi, associate professor, will serve as Principal Investigator and Michael Taylor, assistant professor, Co-Investigator for a NIH R21 grant to develop biomaterials used to produce nanoemulsions
Wani lecture highlights historical anticancer discoveries
Dean Steven M. Swanson hosted Mansukh C. Wani, Ph.D., Principal Scientist Emeritus, Research Triangle Institute, who presented a lecture on The Discovery of Taxol and Camptothecin.
Buchberger earns NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship
Amanda Buchberger, a third year chemistry graduate student in the laboratory of Lingjun Li, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry, has earned an NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship.
Khalifa and Wilken-Resman named NSF Predoctoral Fellows
First-year Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate students Muhammad Khalifa and Brynna Wilken-Resman have been named 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellows.
Taylor images highlight the beauty of science
Michael Taylor, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was among only a dozen winners of the 2016 Cool Science Image Contest. Taylor’s image is a micrograph of the brain vasculature of a zebrafish larva.