Four undergraduate students working with pharmaceutical sciences division faculty mentors have been granted a Hilldale Faculty/Undergraduate Research Award for the 2014-15 academic year. The recipients and their faculty mentors are: Tyler Lieberthal, Weiyuan John Kao, …
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Cho joins faculty of St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Hyunah Cho, Ph.D. ’13, accepted a faculty position at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy (StLCoP). Cho will be teaching PharmD courses in drug delivery systems and compounding. She hopes to continue the strong research …
UW Madison researchers aim to treat drug-resistant infections with new drugs created by bugs
Scientists Dr. David Andes, Tim Bugni, and Cameron Currie are part of a team that recently received a five-year, $16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to look for potential new drugs from …
Graduate students selected as NSF Fellows
Michelle Pizzo, in the lab of Professor Robert Thorne, and Celeste Alvarez, in the lab of Professor Glen Kwon, both in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, received a 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship …
Peterson Receives SOT Distinguished Toxicology Scholar Award
Richard E. Peterson, PhD, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division at the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy received the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Distinguished Toxicology Scholar Award at the 53rd Annual SOT Meeting and ToxExpo in …
Thorne awarded funding from WARF’s Accelerator Program
Robert Thorne, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division at the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy, received $158,611 from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Accelerator Program for his project titled “Use of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 to …
Innovative research from Li Research Group featured by ACS Editor’s Choice Program and cover illustration
The research of Professor Lingjun Li and Dr. Chenxi Jia in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division is featured on the cover of Analytical Chemistry. Following a February cover article in Analytical Chemistry, Dr. Chenxi Jia from …
Student researchers receive $3,500 in travel grants
The UW-Madison School of Pharmacy received $3,500 to fund student travel grants from Procter & Gamble for the 2013-2014 academic year. The grants support School of Pharmacy graduate and post-doctoral student toxicology researchers so they …
Oakes contributes expertise
Steve Oakes, a clinical assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division at the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy, contributed to a Wisconsin State Journal article, Pharmacists, guardians of drugs, sometimes steal them, about prescription drug theft …
ACS Journal features Li’s mass spec research
The research of Professor Lingjun Li and Dr. Chenxi Jia in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division is featured on the cover of Analytical Chemistry. The February 2014 article highlights the novel strategy developed by Li and …