Grant furthers work with co-crystals

The Pharmaceutical Sciences Division team of Lian Yu, professor, Melgardt de Villiers, associate professor (CHS) and Siwei Zhang, graduate student, have been awarded funding from Pfizer, Inc. to study the thermodynamics of co-crystals. These special …

Li’s research recognized with faculty fellowship

Lingjun Li, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been awarded a H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). This unrestricted 5-year research award recognizes the University’s most outstanding recently …

Mudd to join Abbott Labs

Sarah Mudd, PhD ’10, has accepted a position as senior scientist in the Oncology Imaging group with Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago, Ill. Sarah studied under Jamey Weichert, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, …

Funding to support drug delivery research

Melgardt de Villiers, associate professor (CHS), and Lian Yu, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, have been awarded funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb to support their drug delivery research. Entitled the “Effect of Excipients on the …

Thorne selected for international symposium

Robert Thorne, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been invited to deliver a talk and serve as chair of a scientific session at the 9th International Symposium on Cerebral Vascular Biology in Leiden, …

Xiang abstract yields travel award

Feng Xiang, graduate student from the laboratory of Lingjun Li, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, received a Travel Award, through abstract competition, to attend the Midwestern Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference (MUACC) 2010 at …

The art of science

The work of Lian Yu, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, on crystal polymorphism is the cover feature of the September 2010 issue of the Accounts of Chemical Research. Considered a top chemical journal, the …

Li selected for achievement award

Lingjun Li, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was honored recently with the 2011 Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award. Li will be recognized at a special symposium honoring her work at Pittcon in Atlanta in …