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McGivney Active with AACP Initiative and ACC Conferences Associate Dean for Community Partnerships Melissa A. Somma McGivney, PharmD, FCCP, FAPhA  has been appointed by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) to the American…
Collaboration Between Pitt Schools Receives Grant PittPhamarcy Alumna Ashley Firm, PharmD '14  from the Physician Assistant Studies Program, PittPharmacy faculty, Luke Berenbrok, PharmD '13, MS and Lorin Grieve, PharmD '14 were awarded an…
Feturi Receives First Place in 2018 Best Poster Medical Device Category Firuz Gamal Feturi, BS and PhD candidate was awarded first place for her poster presentation in the medical device category during the McGowan Research Retreat March 2018.
Alumna Johnson Selected Walmart Scholars Program Recent PharmD graduate and new alumna Heather Johnson '18 was selected for the Walmart Scholars Program.  Associate Professor Karen Pater, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, and Johnson were one of 85 faculty-…
PittPharmacy Faculty Benedict and Team Honored for Outstanding Work in National Pharmacy Journal Associate Professor Neal Benedict and co-authors have been awarded the 2018 Rufus A. Lyman Award by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Cultural Program of the Year Awarded to PittPharmacy SNPhA PittPharmacy's Student National Pharmaceutical Association, (SNPhA), won the University of Pittsburgh Blue Stars Red Carpet Cultural Program of the Year Award for their Black History Cultural…
PittPharmacy to Lead New Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence The University of Pittsburgh and Thermo Fisher Scientific have established a new Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence in the School of Pharmacy that aims to discover and validate medication response…
Feturi Published in Frontiers in Surgery A manuscript from PittPharmacy graduate student Firuz Feturi titiled  "Mycophenolic acid for topical immunosuppression in vascularized composite allotransplantation: optimizing formulation and…
Jieni Xu Presents Anticancer Therapy Project at ACS Meeting

PittPharmacy PhD candidate Jieni Xu  gave a podium presentation on her project "Pendent HDAC inhibitor SAHA derivatized polymer as a novel prodrug micellar carrier for…

Venkataramanan Presents at International Cancer Research Meeting
Raman Venkataramanan, PhD, FACCP, FAAPS recently gave a presentation at the Sri Shankara Hospital and Research Center in Bangalore India. His presentation “Clinical Pharmacology Aids in the…
Dean Patricia Kroboth Receives APhA-ASP Outstanding Dean Award Patricia D. Kroboth, PhD Dean, School of Pharmacy, Dr. Gordon J. Vanscoy Distinguished Service Professor, was selected as the 2018 APhA-ASP Outstanding Dean recipient.
PittPharmacy Faculty Huryn Serves as Panelist for ACS Women in Academia Donna Huryn, PhD recently served as a webinar panelist discussing Women in Drug Discovery and Development: How to Succeed as a Female in Academia and Industry sponsored by American Chemical Society.
Pruskowski Receives Palliative Care Research Grant Jennifer A. Pruskowski, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, CPE led by Dr.
Empey Receives University 2018 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award Assistant Professor Philip E. Empey, PharmD, PhD is the recipient of the University of Pittsburgh 2018 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.