Laurel Legenza, alumna of UW-Madison School of Pharmacy and recent graduate with a MS in Health-System Pharmacy Administration degree from the University of Utah, will be the first fellow for the Comparative Health Systems Global …
Research
Impacting Health Care: Family Caregivers and Medication Management
Family caregivers play a vital role in providing care to older adults and helping them remain in their homes and communities. Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the United States provides unpaid care to an …
deVilliers paper selected “Top Pick”
Melgardt de Villiers, professor (CHS) in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, is among the authors of a paper selected Editor’s Pick for the May issue of Expert Opinion of Drug …
Kolesar appointed co-leader of UWCCC working group
Pharmacy Practice Division faculty Jill Kolesar, professor (CHS) and Director, 3P Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory, UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC), was recently appointed co-leader of the Cancer Therapy Discovery and Development (CTD2) disease oriented working group. …
Kwan receives grant to study biofilm inhibitors
Jason Kwan, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been awarded a research starter grant from the American Society of Pharmacognosy. The grant will support Kwan’s research in the investigation of novel biofilm inhibitors …
Vardeny named American Heart Association Fellow
Orly Vardeny, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, was elected as Fellow of American Heart Association (AHA) through The Council on Clinical Cardiology. Election as a Fellow of the American Heart Association provides …
Young researcher receives recognition and accolades
Pharmacology-Toxicology junior Helene Altmann ‘x16 will participate in a 12-week research internship at the prestigious European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. She is one of three UW-Madison undergraduates chosen for this honor
Look and Margolis receive 2015 Curtis A. Johnson Award
Kevin Look, assistant professor, Social and Administrative Sciences Division and Amanda Margolis, lecturer, Pharmacy Practice Division, received the 2015 Curtis A. Johnson Award for their contributions to The Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. …
Rose is invited speaker for Science on Tap series
Warren Rose, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, will address “Antibiotic Resistance: No Longer Just a Hospital Problem,” to an informal group at the Science on Tap-Minoqua series on Wednesday, May 6. The …
Zhang is Journal of Polymer Science poster prize winner
Wei Zhang, graduate student in the lab of Lian Yu, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was one of three outstanding young polymer scientists awarded the 2015 Journal of Polymer Science poster prize for the …