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  2. Two School of Pharmacy Faculty Honored with Prestigious Vilas Award

Glen Kwon

Michelle Chui and Glen Kwon

Two School of Pharmacy Faculty Honored with Prestigious Vilas Award

Posted on June 6, 2024

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

Glen Kwon in his lab

Advanced Polymeric Nanotechnology for Delivering Combination Cancer Therapies

Posted on June 6, 2021

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

Glen Kwon, Seungpyo Hong, Lingjun Li, and Sandro Mecozzi standing in a lab

School Launches New Nanotechnology Center for Drug Delivery

Posted on September 15, 2018

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.

Glen Kwon standing with Tony Tam wearing graduation robes

Nanoparticles Improve Tumor Treatment in Mice

Posted on July 25, 2018

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

Weiping Tang in his lab

New Award Will Support Faster, More Powerful Drug Lead Development

Posted on June 28, 2018

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

Naomi Do, Michael Taylor, and Kevin Lanham working in the lab

As Pharmacy Evolves, PharmD Program Offers Rich Research Experiences

Posted on June 20, 2018

As part of a top-tier research university, the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy offers PharmD students substantive research exposure across various research areas.

portrait of Glen Kwon in his lab

Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Posted on February 23, 2018

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.

School of Pharmacy PhD Student Honored by AAiPS For Second Year in a Row

Posted on December 4, 2017

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)

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