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Thursday, May 5, 2018
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 Pharmacists…
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
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 Advisory…
Thursday, May 5, 2018
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.
Tuesday, May 5, 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-mentor…
Thursday, May 5, 2018
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. This award is presented annually to the author(s…
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
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…
Tuesday, April 4, 2018
APhA-ASP Chapter Wins the University of Pittsburgh Outstanding Program of the Year Award
Monday, April 4, 2018
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…
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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…
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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…
Tuesday, March 3, 2018
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…
Thursday, March 3, 2018
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.
Tuesday, March 3, 2018
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.
Monday, March 3, 2018
Pruskowski Receives Palliative Care Research Grant
Jennifer A. Pruskowski, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, CPE led by Dr.
Monday, February 2, 2018
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. The award recognizes the considerable impact Empey…
