Heidi Mansour smiles in her lab

Patents and Progress

Alumna Heidi Mansour (BS ‘96, PhD ’03), member of the National Academy of Inventors, aims to revolutionize lung and brain drug delivery. 

portraits of Professor Glen Kwon, senior scientist Bianca Tomasini-Johansson, and Pawel Zbyszynski (PhD ’19), a former member of the Kwon Lab.

New Potential Drug to Treat Fibrosis

Researchers in the School of Pharmacy’s Kwon Lab have been awarded a patent for a promising new therapy with implications for many conditions, such as kidney disease, heart failure, and even COVID-19.