International journal bestows award

Weiping Tang, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been selected as a 2010 Journal Award Recipient by the editorial board of Synlett and Synthesis, two well-known international journals devoted to synthetic organic chemistry. …

Postdoc training award to further cancer research

Kimberly Hammer, postdoctoral research associate, in the laboratory of Paul Marker, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been awarded a postdoctoral training award from the Department of Defense-Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to …

Gunn named 2010 PhRMA fellow

Erica Gunn, postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Lian Yu, pharmaceutical sciences professor, has been awarded a 2010 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutics. PhRMA represents the …

Grants support natural product drug discovery

Ben Shen, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, received grants from American Recovery Act Funds to support his ongoing program on natural product biosynthesis, engineering, and drug discovery. A Competitive Revision grant will expand Shen’s …

Schmidt to pursue law degree

Graduate student David Schmidt recently completed his MS in pharmaceutical sciences and PhD in biomedical engineering at UW-Madison. Schmitt worked under the mentorship of W. John Kao, pharmaceutical sciences and biomedical engineering professor. We congratulate …

R01 grant to advance natural product research

Weiping Tang, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has received his first R01 grant. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has also awarded him a Supplement for Collaborative Science award on ion …

Five SOP faculty awarded ICTR research funding

Lingjun Li and Sandro Mecozzi, associate professors in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, Warren Rose, assistant professor (CHS), and Eva Vivian, clinical associate professor in the Pharmacy Practice Division and Henry Young, assistant professor in the …