Pitt Pharmacy Shines Bright at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX

With one of the largest sections of student and faculty attendance, PittPharmacy APhA-ASP Students - earned FIVE awards at the conference.  The students competed for these national awards…

Pitt's Annual Health Sciences Symposium is Getting a New Name

The Pittwire recently featured Gordon J. Vanscoy (PHARM ’84, BUS ’91G), and his wife, Bethann, in a story about the renaming of the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences annual symposium in…

Pitt Pharmacy APhA-ASP Chapter Wins 2020-2021 Operation Heart Regional Award

Pitt Pharmacy’s APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) chapter has done it again! They were selected as a regional winner of Operation Heart for 2020-2021, marking the second year in a row…

Seybert Elected Vice President of ACPE

Amy Seybert, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, CHSE, was elected Vice President of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) for 2022-2023. She held the position of Treasurer of ACPE from 2021-…

Juhl Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Juhl (right), receiving the award from Dean Donald Letendre of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy

Beumer Receives Multiple Awards, Eligible for Nearly $10 Million Over Five Years from NCI Contract

Pitt Pharmacy professor Jan Beumer, PharmD, PhD, DABT, was awarded a new National Cancer Institute (NCI) contract for Preclinical Drug Development Research. Beumer is a faculty member in our…

Coons Receives ASHP Foundation Collaborative Care Grant

Pitt Pharmacy professor Jim Coons, PharmD ('01), FCCP, FACC, BCCP was recently awarded a Collaborative Care grant from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation and American…

Pitt Pharmacy Team Awarded HOPA Grant

A team made up of Pitt Pharmacy Research Scientist Katherine M.

Pitt Pharmacy Team Publishes Study in Lancet Oncology

A team of Pitt Pharmacy researchers, including graduate student and primary author Morgan Casal, PharmD (’19), and faculty members Jan Beumer, PharmD, PhD, and

Kane-Gill Awarded Two NIDDK Grants

Pitt Pharmacy professor Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, was recently awarded two grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Huryn Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Donna Huryn, PhD, and Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was chosen as the winner of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS-PHL) Lifetime…

Ma Awarded NIH Grant

Pitt Pharmacy Associate Professor Xiaochao Ma, PhD, was awarded an NIH R01 grant for his work titled, “The ABCG2 transporter in protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) disposition: From toxicity to therapy.”

Graduate Student Matthew Gray Receives Grant from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Pitt Pharmacy and University Pharmacy Collaborate with Pharmacy Partners to Combat COVID

University Pharmacy and Pitt Pharmacy served as a Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Hub for CPESN USA in April, 2021.  Patrick Pugliese, (PHARM '11), Director of Pharmacy at University Pharmacy, worked with…

PharmD Students’ Research Published in Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy

Niti Patel and Britney Stottlemyer, graduates of the 2021 class led the publication of their research project entitled, "A Pharmacovigilance Study of Adverse Drug Reactions Reported for…