Heidi Mansour smiles in her lab

Patents and Progress

Alumna Heidi Mansour (BS ‘96, PhD ’03), member of the National Academy of Inventors, aims to revolutionize lung and brain drug delivery. 

Heather Barkholtz stands outside in front of windows

Breaking Bad Chemistry

Through a National Institute of Justice grant, Assistant Professor Heather Barkholtz aims to tease out the toxicological difference between mirror-image meth isomers.

Cindy and Jim Steffen stand in a park

‘Pharmily’ Matters

All four members of the Steffen family — Jim (BS ’83) and Cindy (BS ’84) and their children Brad Steffen (BS ’12) and Dana Steffen Ramms (BS ’15) — took a different career path, all branching from a start at the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy.