Ofek Bar-Ilan, pharmaceutical sciences PhD graduate student in the laboratory of Darin Furgeson, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division and Biomedical Engineering, received the Young Investigator Award from the Midwest Regional Chapter of the …
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Editorial appointments recognize research
Mel de Villiers, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been selected to serve on the Editorial Board of Current Drug Discovery Technologies. He was also recently appointed as an Associate Editor for the …
Grant furthers work of halogen-containing pharmaceutical agents
The research of Weiping Tang, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, was awarded $50,000 from the American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund for his proposal, “Catalytic Enantioselective Halogenation of Olefins.” This proposal focuses on the …
Collaboration yields innovation in cancer research
Darin Furgeson, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and colleague Dr. Chris Brace, assistant scientist at the School of Medicine and Public Health and the College of Engineering, were awarded $70,000 from the University …
The School of Pharmacy community mourns the loss of a pioneer and champion
Lenor B. Zeeh, passed away February 24, 2008. Zeeh graduated from the School of Pharmacy in 1936 and dedicated his life work to advancing the field. In recent years the school’s Pharmacy Experiment Station was …
Kwon’s words make top ten list
An article co-authored by Glen Kwon, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, is named fifth among the “ten most highly cited articles in 2007” by the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The article, “Amphiphilic Block Copolymers …
Bacteria offers a designer label
The bacteria research of Ben Shen, the Charles M. Johnson Chair in the School of Pharmacy and Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, may change the view of chemistry and chemotherapy and is highlighted in …
Carb chemistry garners sweet results
The sugar research work of Jon Thorson, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and colleagues at the School of Pharmacy continues to gain recognition in both the drug development and discovery arenas as highlighted in …
Shen group identifies new chorismate metabolic pathway
A group led by Ben Shen, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and colleagues at the School of Pharmacy were highlighted in the January 14, 2008 edition of Chemical & Engineering News in a news …
Spotlight on Jon Thorson & Zeeh Station history
The groundbreaking work of Professor Jon Thorson, PhD, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and the history of the Zeeh Pharmaceutical Station are dually highlighted in “Inherit the Weeds,” by John Allen in the Winter 2007 edition of …