May Xiong, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been selected as a participant for the 2011 Functional and Applied Genomics of Blood Disorders Program, a research career advanced training opportunity sponsored by the …
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NIH award nets new equipment for the AIC
Lingjun Li, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and Cameron Scarlett, Director of the Mass Spectometry Lab, in the school’s Analytical Instrumentation Center, were awarded an NIH S10 award for a new mass spectrometer. …
Cohen awarded prestigious Defense Department fellowship
Hannah Cohen, graduate student studying in the laboratory of May Xiong, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been selected to receive a 2011 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship from the …
Thorson named lecture series speaker
Jon Thorson, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was named the 2011 Burkett Lecture Series Speaker at DePauw University. The Burkett Lectures at DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. were established in 1986 upon the retirement of …
Owusu-Ofori continues research at UW-Madison
Kwadwo Owusu-Ofori, May 2010 PhD recipient, has accepted a postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Charles Czuprynski, professor, UW-Madison Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine. Owusu-Ofori completed his doctoral studies with Bill Mellon, …
Grant furthers work with co-crystals
The Pharmaceutical Sciences Division team of Lian Yu, professor, Melgardt de Villiers, associate professor (CHS) and Siwei Zhang, graduate student, have been awarded funding from Pfizer, Inc. to study the thermodynamics of co-crystals. These special …
Li’s research recognized with faculty fellowship
Lingjun Li, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been awarded a H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). This unrestricted 5-year research award recognizes the University’s most outstanding recently …
Mudd to join Abbott Labs
Sarah Mudd, PhD ’10, has accepted a position as senior scientist in the Oncology Imaging group with Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago, Ill. Sarah studied under Jamey Weichert, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, …
Funding to support drug delivery research
Melgardt de Villiers, associate professor (CHS), and Lian Yu, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, have been awarded funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb to support their drug delivery research. Entitled the “Effect of Excipients on the …
de Villiers to serve as associate editor of AAPS PharmSciTech
Melgardt de Villiers, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been appointed associate editor for AAPS PharmSciTech, an official journal of the American Association for Pharmaceutical Sciences. The online-only journal is committed to …