Postdoctoral Category, 1st place, $250—Kimberly Toops, PhD (Lakkaraju Research Group) Dissertation Category, 1st place, $250—Navid Adnani (Bugni Research Group) Dissertation Category, 2nd place, $100—Gabrielle Winston-McPherson (Tang Research Group) Pre-Dissertation Category, 1st place, $250—Ian Miller (Kwan …
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Fall 2014 Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduates
Congratulations to the following students who successfully defended their dissertations: Hannah Cohen, under the supervision of Dr. W. John Kao: Biomaterial-Mediated Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte Degranulation and Associated Effects on the Host Response. Xiaoxun Li, under the …
deVilliers to serve on AACP Board
Melgardt de Villiers, professor (CHS), in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was elected Secretary of the Pharmaceutics Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). AACP is structured as a democratic organization with decision-making …
Jiang wins Young Chemical Biologist Award
Jiaoyang Jiang, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has received the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) 2014 Young Chemical Biologist Award for her outstanding achievement as a young investigator in chemical biology. Jiang’s research …
Kolesar joins NCI review board
Jill Kolesar, professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, and Director, 3P Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory, UW Carbone Cancer Center, was recently appointed to the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Prevention and Control CIRB. The new CIRB …
Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate students awarded
American Society for Pharmacognosy Research Poster Ian Miller — 2nd place for Poster, “Metagenomic analysis of the diverse microbial community in themarine invertebrate Bugula neritina” ASP David J. Slatkin Symposium, Chicago State University. Johns Hopkins …
Hasebe is Zaman Saroya Award recipient
Mariko Hasebe, a pharmaceutical sciences graduate student working under Professor Lian Yu was awarded the 2014 Zaman Saroya Award. Hasebe was selected due to her excellence in pharmaceutical sciences research, her past leadership efforts on …
Chen and Kumar recipients of 2014 WARF Discovery Research Challenge Award
Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate students Bingming Chen and Niyanta Kumar, who, along with Ross Cheloha, graduate student, chemistry, Gellman Group, were among only two winners of this year’s WARF Discovery Challenge Research Award for their collaborative …
Bashirullah invited participant in international science symposium
Arash Bashirullah, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, is part of the U.S. delegation attending the fourteenth Japanese-American Frontiers of Science symposium. Co-sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences and the …
Bugni is collaborator on cutting-edge antifungal research
A new research paper from the lab of Tim Bugni, assistant professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and collaborators at UW-Madison and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, has been selected as a “Hot Paper” by the editors …