Anna Apinis’ healthcare career inspires her son to endow a professorship at the School of Pharmacy By Katie Ginder-Vogel When Anna Apinis emigrated from Latvia with her family during World War II, she had to …
Research
This Beetle Got a Boost When It Partnered Up with Antifungal Bacteria
By Eric Hamilton This article originally appeared on UW–Madison’s news page. Life is tough if you’re a beetle. Things want to eat you, and you can’t much stop them. You’re very small in a big, big …
Cheap Nanoparticles Stimulate Immune Response to Cancer in the Lab
By Eric Hamilton This article originally appeared on UW–Madison’s news page. University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed nanoparticles that, in the lab, can activate immune responses to cancer cells. If they are shown to work as …
Teaching Old Antibiotics New Tricks
A new study published by Associate Professor Warren Rose reactivates two beta-lactam antibiotics against strains of MRSA in a lab simulation.
Breaking the Opioid Cycle: Part 3
The last in a three-part series exploring how School of Pharmacy faculty are curbing the opioid epidemic, including community-driven interventions, leveraging digital games, and exploring treatment with psilocybin.
Patient Care Simulations Advance Students’ Education and Development
Two AACP-funded simulations focused on telepharmacy and transitions of care train student pharmacists for the future of pharmacy practice.
R35 Grant Accelerates New Molecule Discovery
With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Assistant Professor Jason Kwan explores new methods to discover drug candidates.
Three School of Pharmacy Students Present Research at IDWeek 2019
PharmD students Anna Aycock and Graham Edwardson and Health Services Research in Pharmacy graduate student Chi-Yin Liao earn national recognition for their research.
Warren Rose Inducted as 2019 IDSA Fellow
Associate Professor Warren Rose’s atypical approach to overcoming antibiotic resistance receives more national recognition.
A Carbohydrate-Based Solution to Ovarian Cancer
Through grant from the Carbone Cancer Center, Professor Weiping Tang is starting a collaborative research project to reactivate immune cells against ovarian cancer.