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September 17, 2025Protecting the Brain from Harmful Protein Aggregates
Professor Weiping Tang and collaborators have received a UW Research Forward grant to advance multidisciplinary research on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative disorders.
December 11, 2024Three Research Forward Awards Fuel Faculty Innovation
Professors Timothy Bugni, Lingjun Li, and Weiping Tang have received UW–Madison grants to advance their innovative multidisciplinary research.
December 6, 2022A Continuing Tradition of Innovation
School 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 Awards
Professor Weiping Tang and Associate Professor Warren Rose receive recognition from UW–Madison for their distinguished research.
September 20, 2021A Year of Discovery
In 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 Destruction
Tang 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 …
December 8, 2020A New Way to Target Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer
In 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 Approach
Professor 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 Grant
Out 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 Professorship
Anna 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 …
December 4, 2019A Carbohydrate-Based Solution to Ovarian Cancer
Through grant from the Carbone Cancer Center, Professor Weiping Tang is starting a collaborative research project to reactivate immune cells against ovarian cancer.
September 13, 2019A Passion for Pharmacy Leaves an International Legacy
World War II pushed the Apinis family to leave Europe, but the careers they rebuilt in Madison continue to influence student pharmacists and researchers through scholarships and a professorship.
June 7, 2019Two Faculty Honored with Prestigious Vilas Awards
Vilas Investigator Awards allow Weiping Tang and Jiaoyang Jiang to expand their research labs to pursue new opportunities.
September 7, 2018Exploratory NIH Grant Supports Professor Weiping Tang’s Innovative Carbohydrate Synthesis Research
Professor Weiping Tang’s research, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, is looking to pioneer a new, universal method for synthesizing and accessing challenging glycosides.
June 28, 2018New Award Will Support Faster, More Powerful Drug Lead Development
The School’s Professor Weiping Tang is the principal investigator on the project that won funding from the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative program.
February 21, 2018Student Researcher Chosen for NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program
Stephanie Ann Blaszczyk, a student researcher in the School’s Tang Laboratory, was selected to receive the National Institutes of Health’s Chemistry-Biology Interface program, which will fund her research into carbohydrates for two years.
January 2, 2018Medicinal Chemistry Center Moves Drug Discovery Forward With Unparalleled Expertise
The early phase of drug discovery is seemingly straight-forward: screen molecules for biological activity, validate screening hits, design and synthesize novel drug molecules for testing in cells and animals. But while drug companies breeze through that process
December 4, 2017UW–Madison School of Pharmacy Scientists Develop New Mild Glycosylation Method of Carbohydrate Synthesis
Coming up with methods of carbohydrate synthesis is difficult work. Yet, it is critical to advancing scientists’ knowledge of carbohydrate structure and biological function. Contributing to that advance, Weiping Tang
August 14, 2017Tang’s group receives prestigious NIH U01 award
Weiping Tang, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, is the principal investigator of a new U01 grant from the National Institutes of Health that will study the development of new methods to synthesize carbohydrates.
July 27, 2017Tang receives NIH funding to advance cardiovascular research
Weiping Tang, professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, is the principal investigator of a new R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health
March 17, 2017Tang’s synthetic carbohydrate research spotlighted in JACS
An article authored by Weiping Tang, professor, in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division and Co-Director of the Medicinal Chemistry Center was published online in the March 15 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society …
July 26, 2016Golden project selected for UW2020 Award
An innovative research proposal from Jennifer Golden, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division and Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry Center, was among a topnotch group of faculty to receive the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative Award. …
July 8, 2016Tang’s prolific publication pace is recognized by top journal
Weiping Tang, associate professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, and Co-Director of Medicinal Chemistry Center, was highlighted in the July 7, 2016 edition of “Angewandte Chemie International Edition.”
May 6, 2015Winston-McPherson named 2015 UNCF-Merck Graduate Science Research Fellow
Gabrielle Winston-McPherson, SciMed GRS Fellow and Research Assistant in the lab of Weiping Tang, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, has been selected to participate in the United Negro College Fund, Inc. (UNCF) and the Merck Company Foundation …