With an influx of federal aid, two School of Pharmacy professors — Jay Ford and Cody Wenthur — will empower Wisconsin pharmacies with new tools to prevent opioid deaths.

With an influx of federal aid, two School of Pharmacy professors — Jay Ford and Cody Wenthur — will empower Wisconsin pharmacies with new tools to prevent opioid deaths.
See the people, processes, and equipment behind Assistant Professor Cody Wenthur’s exploration into psychoactive substances.
Watch as Associate Professor Lucas Richert, of the Social and Administrative Sciences Division, and Professor Paul Hutson and Assistant Professor Cody Wenthur, both of the Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research Division, discuss where psychedelic research is today, what projects are underway here at UW–Madison, and how the role of pharmacists factors in.
As psychoactive substances gain therapeutic evidence, Assistant Professor Cody Wenthur aims to reverse underrepresentation of minorities in clinical studies.
Housed at the School of Pharmacy, the Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances leverages clinical and multidisciplinary expertise in emerging field of psychedelic-assisted therapy.
In response to a resurgence in research and a need for a highly trained workforce, the School of Pharmacy introduces a new MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences: Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation — the only master’s program of its kind in the U.S.
A new study led by School of Pharmacy researchers seeks to separate the psychedelic experience from the drugs’ therapeutic effects.
With NIH BRAINS award, Assistant Professor Cody Wenthur is using a vaccine approach to develop safer and more effective antidepressants from ketamine.
In the first in a three-part series exploring how School of Pharmacy researchers are curbing the opioid epidemic, faculty are building a toolkit for pharmacists to get involved with opioid use disorder treatment, and paving the way for an opioid misuse vaccine.
Three new hires and two new appointments strengthen the School’s Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences Divisions.