News from School of Pharmacy
December 6, 2022A Continuing Tradition of InnovationSchool of Pharmacy researchers in fiscal year 2021–22 received four patents for innovations in drug discovery and delivery.
June 7, 2022Two School of Pharmacy Faculty Honored with Coveted Vilas Professorships and AwardsProfessor Weiping Tang and Associate Professor Warren Rose receive recognition from UW–Madison for their distinguished research.
September 20, 2021A Year of DiscoveryIn the 2020–21 Fiscal Year, School of Pharmacy researchers received six patents to improve drug delivery and discovery.
March 18, 2021New Method Targets Disease-Causing Proteins for DestructionTang Lab at the School of Pharmacy develops new technique for targeted protein degradation By Eric Hamilton This article originally appeared on UW–Madison’s news page. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a way to use a cell’s own recycling machinery to destroy disease-causing proteins, a technology that could produce entirely new kinds of […]
December 8, 2020A New Way to Target Drug-Resistant Breast CancerIn collaboration with oncology professor Wei Xu, professors Lingjun Li and Weiping Tang are developing tools to tackle breast cancers that no longer respond to traditional therapies.
December 4, 2020Weiping Tang Receives NIH Grant for Coronavirus Research
Here are 3 things to know about the Tang Lab’s work toward antiviral therapeutics targeting a broad range of coronaviruses.
September 11, 2020Degraders: A New Drug Discovery ApproachProfessor Weiping Tang harnesses cells’ natural protein disposal system to destroy disease-causing proteins.
- September 7, 2020New NSF Grant Will Improve Synthesis of Bacterial Carbohydrates
The support from the National Science Foundation will help Professor Weiping Tang develop novel chemical methods to synthesize bacterial carbohydrates for studies of biology and disease.
June 11, 2020Pharmaceutical Sciences Student Awarded NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training GrantOut of 34 competitive applications across the UW–Madison campus, Chelsi Almodóvar-Rivera was one of three students selected for the newest CBI program cohort.
February 29, 2020Drug Discovery Research Gets Boost With Anna Apinis ProfessorshipAnna Apinis’ healthcare career inspires her son to endow a professorship at the School of Pharmacy By Katie Ginder-Vogel When Anna Apinis emigrated from Latvia with her family during World War II, she had to leave her pharmacy career behind. Anna had earned her Master’s degree in pharmacy in Latvia in the 1930s and owned […]
Lab News
June 4, 2024
Paulina Esguerra was selected as a recipient for the Hilldale Fellow (2024-2025)
May 10, 2023
Chris Stevens won the “Graduate Student Service Scholarship”
May 3, 2023
Chelsi Almodovar-Rivera received Witiak Travel Award
April 4, 2023
Lauren Rault received an Award from ACS Division of Organic Chemistry as an Outstanding, Senior Organic Chemistry Student
December 15, 2022
Exploring New Avenues for Targeted Protein Degradation – an interview with our group member Christopher Stevens
December 15, 2022
Issued Patent: “Synthesis of small molecule histone deacetylase 6 degraders, compounds formed thereby, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them”
June 7, 2022
Weiping received the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
May 31, 2022
Chelsi Almodovar-Rivera Awarded Travel Scholarship to Present at the 2022 National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference
May 5, 2022
Ira Tandon Won the best Poster Award at the 2022 MIKIW meeting.
May 5, 2022
Christopher Stevens Received AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
May 2, 2022
Yaxian (Sherry) Zhou was invited to present at the 18th International PEGS Boston Conferences on Engineering Antibodies
April 19, 2022
Christopher Stevens Awarded the 2nd Year Competitive Renewal for NIH Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science
March 13, 2022
A story about former graduate student Gabrielle Winston-McPherson
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July 28, 2021
Christopher Stevens Awarded NIH Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science
March 5, 2021
Our first paper in ACS Central Science is online.
We expanded the scope of our targeted protein degradation program to extracellular proteins! Read the story written by Eric Hamilton.
February 25, 2021
A targeted protein degradation platform will be established at UW–Madison to accelerate its translational research
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December 9, 2020
Ira Tandon Awarded NIH Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Training Grant
December 1, 2020
Stephanie was selected as the commencement speaker for UW College of Letters and Science
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June 11, 2020
Chelsi Almodovar-Rivera Awarded NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant
May 25, 2020
Eric Leisten received the Mary Shine Peterson Award from Biochemistry
January 2, 2020
Eric Leisten was selected as a recipient for the Hilldale Fellow (2020-2021)
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May 20, 2019
Weiping won the Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award
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April 22, 2019
Bethany awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2019-2022)
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April 5, 2018
Stephanie was awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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February 21, 2018
Stephanie Blaszczyk Chosen for NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program
May 6, 2015
Winston-McPherson named 2015 UNCF-Merck Graduate Science Research Fellow