Alum Joe Su (PhD ’08) aims to tame the ‘Wild West’ of natural products to tackle chronic inflammation.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
2024 Citations of Merit Honor Pharmacy Luminaries
The School’s highest annual award celebrates alumni and friends for contributions to academia, community pharmacy, and pharmaceutical science.
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.
New Master’s Programs Accelerate Student Careers Through Applied Learning
Unique industry internships and special projects augment graduate student experience in the Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation and Applied Drug Development programs.
2024 Five of the Future
Meet recent UW–Madison School of Pharmacy alumni who are leading their fields forward.
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.
UW–Madison Leading New Research Collaboration Aimed at Treating Lung Scarring Diseases
University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists are poised to gain a better understanding of how to treat a progressive scarring disease of the lungs that kills an estimated 40,000 people every year in the United States.
‘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.
Two School of Pharmacy Faculty Honored with Prestigious Vilas Award
Professors Michelle Chui and Glen Kwon receive one of UW–Madison’s top faculty honors: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships.
Nano-Drugs on Bacteria Could Target Difficult-to-Treat Pancreatic Cancer
Employing bacteria to infiltrate that cancerous fortification and deliver drugs could aid treatment for pancreatic cancer, according to newly published findings from a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers.