Meyer Receives Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award Congratulations to PittPharmacy’s Susan M. Meyer, PhD, winner of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award! The award …

Antinopoulos Elected PPA Board of Directors Brandon Antinopoulos, PharmD, current Senior Program Manager, Community Programs and Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, was elected to the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA…

Register Now! NACDSTest2Learn™ Community-based Pharmacogenomics Certificate & Train-the-Trainer (TTT) Program PittPharmacy 's Philip Empey, PharmD, PhD, Director, Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence, Associate Director, Institute for Personalized Medicine and Assistant Professor James M. Stevenson, PharmD…

Coons Receives Grant from Precision Medicine Pilot Award Program PittPharmacy Associate Professor Jim Coons, PharmD, FCCP, BCCP was awarded a grant from the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Precision Medicine for his proposal, "Whole Genome Sequencing to…

Skledar Appointed Co-Chair PQA-AAC Committee Professor Sue Skledar, RPh, MPH, FASHP, Director of Experiential Learning and Continuing Professional Development, has been appointed to serve as co-chair for the national Pharmacy Quality…

Feturi Presents at Plastic Surgery Research Council PittPharmacy graduate student Firuz Feturi presented her research work entitled “Tacrolimus-Eluting Biomaterials within Allograft Enable Vascularized Composite Allograft Survival with…

Yang Researching Novel Drug Target for Heart Development and Disease PittPharmacy Assistant Professor Da Yang, MD, PhD will collaborate with Lei Yang, Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine in a NIH funded project titled “Identification of…

PittPharmacy Graduate Students Move Forward with Summer Internships Several PittPharmacy graduate students will be spending their summer throughout the country and with various companies to expand their research skills.

AFPE Gateway to Research Awarded to Cinicola Joshua Cinicola (Class of 2022) received an American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Gateway to Research Award.  His proposal was titled "Development of an Extended Release Film…

Wytiaz Receives PPAG Young Investigator Award Rebecca Wytiaz (left) receiving PPAG Award PittPharmacy Alumna Rebecca Wytiaz '18 was recently awarded the Young Investigator Award by the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG) at the PPAG…

Kane-Gill Member of KDIGO Steering Committee Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, participated in the steering committee, co-leading the breakout group on nephrotoxins, for the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO)…

Allergy Medicine Repurposed for Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia Vinayak Sant Through The Stanley Medical Research Institute, Pitt Department of Psychiatry faculty member, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, MD, PhD and his team of co-investigators will test the usefulness…

SNPhA Blue Stars Red Carpet Winner! PittPharmacy’s Student National Pharmaceutical Association, (SNPhA), won the 2019 Cultural Program of the Year Award for their Black History Cultural Showcase. They received the honor at the…

PittPharmacy Graduate Students Awarded AFPE Fellowships Karryn Crisamore Graduate student Karryn Crisamore, PharmD, was recently selected as the recipient of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Herb and Nina Demuth Memorial…

Smithburger Leads SCCM Taskforce PittPharmacy Associate Professor Pamela L. Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCP, FCCM was appointed as Chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's "Choosing Wisely the Next 5" Campaign…