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 …
Research
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 …
Kwon named regional editor
Glen Kwon, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was selected to be a Regional Editor for the journal Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology publishes original manuscripts, reviews, thematic issues, rapid technical notes and commentaries that provide …
Plavicki brings cool factor to science
Jessica Plavicki, an assistant scientist in the Pharmacuetical Sciences Division, was among only 11 winners of the 2015 Cool Science Image Contest. Her entry of the micrograph of vasculature in the adult zebrafish brain was …
Impacting health care: Older adults and OTC medications
Health care regimens for older adults often include the use of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medication. Among older adults at risk of a major adverse drug event, nearly half of the instances were because of …
Bugni contributes to interdisciplinary international research grant
An International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), led by Professor Jon Clardy and Harvard Medical School, and Professor Monica Tallarico Pupo, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will discover and …
Shiyanbola selected for NIH health sciences scholars program
Olayinka Shiyanbola, assistant professor, Social and Administrative Sciences Division, has been accepted to the first cohort of NIH Scholars of the Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences. The goal of the program …