UW School of Pharmacy

Collaborating to Promote Healthy Aging

The Plein Center in Geriatric Pharmacy Research, Education and Outreach was established with the generous support of Joy and Elmer Plein and will allow us expand our role as leader in outreach and research to promote healthy aging.
Ho’s team makes remarkable HIV therapy breakthrough

UW School of Pharmacy and UW Medicine collaboration leads to an HIV therapy dose that lasts two weeks in test model. Read more about Professor Rodney Y Ho and the lab team’s promising breakthrough to ease daily regimen.
UWSOP PharmD Alumni #1 in the U.S.!

Members of our PharmD Class of 2016 were #1 in the U.S. for initial pass rates on the NAPLEX exam! This and many other reasons are why our students choose UW. Learn more.
Faculty seek to create effective HIV vaccine

Pharmaceutics Professor Shiu-Lok Hu and Kelly Lee, Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, are collaborating to create a vaccine against HIV that employs the “prime-boost” strategy pioneered by Shiu-Lok in the late 1980s.
Researchers Fight Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance affects over two million Americans and results in over 23,000 deaths per year according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Read how Brian Werth from our department of pharmacy and Libin Xu from our department of medicinal chemistry hope to change that.
Little-known disease has major economic impact

PORPP faculty members, Joseph Babigumira, Louis Garrison, Denise Boudreau, Jennie Best, and grad student, Meng Li, published a research paper about the cost impact of giant cell arteritis.
State of Washington First in Pharmacy, Again

Washington is the first U.S. state to require that pharmacists are included in health insurance provider networks. Click for resources and to learn more about the key role UW SOP played.