Assistant Professor Jason Peters created a new technique, known as Mobile-CRISPRi, that allows scientists to screen for antibiotic function in a wide range of pathogenic bacteria.
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Building Better Bacteria for Bioenergy Production
Assistant Professor Jason Peters receives a grant from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center to re-engineer bacteria to produce biofuel.
Reconstructing Bacterial Communities
The National Science Foundation awards Assistant Professor Jason Kwan a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, funding that is granted to top young faculty in support of innovative research.
New Partnership with UW Health Strengthens Prescription Safety
The School of Pharmacy’s Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station started a new collaboration with UW Health Pharmacy Services to provide sterile product testing.
New Assistant Professor Jason Peters Wins NIH Career Transition Award
The National Institutes of Health is helping Assistant Professor Jason Peters get to work developing CRISPR-based tools to uncover genetic functions crucial to the life and reproduction of pathogenic bacteria.
Pharmaceutical Sciences and the New Age of ‘Comfort’ Foods
Pharmaceutical Sciences alumnus Kwadwo Owusu-Ofori created a food project to people manage anxiety and attention-deficit disorders.
Alumni Support Fuels Graduate Student Success
Fellowships, scholarships, and awards funded by alumni and friends advance student education in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Social and Administrative Pharmacy programs.
Former Dean Jeanette Roberts Retires from the School of Pharmacy
Jeanette Roberts—a medicinal chemist, professor, mentor, and philanthropist—is retiring in January 2019 after 15 years at the School of Pharmacy, including 11 as dean.
Pharmaceutical Sciences Student Earns NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant
Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate student Arielis Estevez will use the NIH CBI Traineeship to understand the role of protein glycosylation upregulation in most cancer types.
School Awards Four Pharmacy Innovators with 2018 Citations of Merit
Three Badger alumni and a Wisconsin pharmacy leader are honored for their contributions to the field.