Kyle DeKorver, a third year chemistry graduate student, was named a recipient of a 2010 American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry Predoctoral Fellowship for his research titled “Synthesis of heteroatom-rich pharmacologically useful building blocks …
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chemistry & Engineering News highlights Shen’s work
The June 14 issue of Chemical & Engineering News highlights the work of Ben Shen, professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and members of the Shen research team. The research concerns potent antitumor agents known as enediynes, …
School welcomes Thorne to faculty
Robert Thorne, joins the School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division on June 1. Thorne comes to Madison from the New York University School of Medicine, where he served on …
Gantt to speak at national conference
Richard Gantt, fourth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Jon Thorson , professor of pharmaceutical sciences, has been selected to give a presentation at the upcoming Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Nationally only three …
Five pharm. sci. grad students earn prestigious AFPE fellowships
Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD students Bruce Bagley, Grant Buchanan, Richard Gantt, Kyle Kleinbeck, and Kenneth Simmons have been awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Pharmaceutical Sciences by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) for the …
Joshi receives pilot grant for Alzheimer’s research
Gururaj Joshi, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jeff Johnson, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was awarded an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) pilot project grant from the University of Wisconsin ADRC. The …
Powell awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
C. Travis Powell, a chemistry graduate student, was selected to receive a 2010 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) to further his research on the crystallization of organic glasses under positive and negative …
Kwon, Zografi receive recognition from the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
A mini review co-authored by Glen Kwon, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was distinguished as the fifth-most highly cited article in 2009 by the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (JPharmSci). In tabulating this list, JPharmSci …
Congratulations Professor Warren Heideman!
Congratulations to Professor Warren Heideman, who has been elected Pharmacology-Toxicology Teacher of the Year for 2009-10 by the Pharm-Tox seniors.
Johnson’s research spotlighted in toxicology journal
A research paper by Delinda Johnson, a pharmaceutical sciences researcher, is highlighted in the April issue of Toxicological Sciences. The paper addresses how the pro-antioxidant transcription factor Nrf2 attenuates experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model …