Kwon Research Group

News

  • June 6, 2024Two School of Pharmacy Faculty Honored with Prestigious Vilas Award

    Professors Michelle Chui and Glen Kwon receive one of UW–Madison’s top faculty honors: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships.

  • September 20, 2021A Year of Discovery

    In the 2020–21 Fiscal Year, School of Pharmacy researchers received six patents to improve drug delivery and discovery.

  • June 6, 2021Advanced Polymeric Nanotechnology for Delivering Combination Cancer Therapies

    Professor Glen Kwon receives a new grant from the National Institutes of Health for research targeting triple-negative breast cancer.

  • February 1, 2021New Potential Drug to Treat Fibrosis

    Researchers in the School of Pharmacy’s Kwon Lab have been awarded a patent for a promising new therapy with implications for many conditions, such as kidney disease, heart failure, and even COVID-19.

  • September 7, 2020Academia to Industry

    Soon after graduation, Tony Tam (PhD ’18) advances drug development and formulation at Merck.

  • September 15, 2018School Launches New Nanotechnology Center for Drug Delivery

    Professors Seungpyo Hong, Sandro Mecozzi, Lingjun Li and Glen Kwon are combining their expertise to create a new research center that will improve the efficacy of new drug leads.

  • July 25, 2018Nanoparticles Improve Tumor Treatment in Mice

    Research by Professor Glen Kwon and former graduate student Tony Tam (PhD ’18) is working toward enhancing the efficacy of chemotherapy.

  • June 28, 2018New Award Will Support Faster, More Powerful Drug Lead Development

    The School’s Professor Weiping Tang is the principal investigator on the project that won funding from the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative program.

  • February 23, 2018Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

    Two professors at the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Sciences Division are up for the challenge of being both entrepreneurs and academic researchers, and they’re both targeting cancer.

  • December 4, 2017School of Pharmacy PhD Student Honored by AAiPS For Second Year in a Row

    Doctoral student Yu Tong (Tony) Tam at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy has been honored with a graduate award from the American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAiPS)

  • December 22, 2016Faculty awarded funding through Fall Research Competition

    Pharmaceutical Sciences professor Glen Kwon and assistant professors, Jason Kwan and Jiaoyang Jiang are three of seven faculty who submitted applications for the annual Fall Research Competition and selected to receive funding in this round.

  • November 21, 2016Kwon recognized by AAPS for outstanding manuscript

    Glen Kwon, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has received The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Outstanding Manuscript Award for outstanding achievement in pharmaceutical technologies

  • October 19, 2016Kwon’s startup company advances three-in-one cancer drug

    Glen Kwon, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Co-D Therapeutics, a University of Wisconsin–Madison spinoff, is developing a three-drug cocktail to battle a wide range of cancers.

  • July 11, 2016Kwon’s research spotlighted in preeminent chemistry journal

    An article authored by Glen Kwon, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, along with Tony Tam, PhD graduate student, and Jieming Gao, post-doctoral researcher, both members of his lab, was published online

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