PCEUT News
January 12, 2023
King Yabut Receives MLK Community Service Award
King Yabut, a PhD candidate in the Department of Pharmaceutics in his sixth year, has been named a recipient of…
November 8, 2022
Department of Pharmaceutics Welcomes Two New Faculty
The UW School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutics is excited to introduce and welcome two new faculty members: Dr. Samuel…
October 31, 2022
Extraordinary Support
Three exceptional UW School of Pharmacy graduate students – Keiann Simon, Alex Wiley and Adi Kumar – discuss their individual journeys at the #UWSOP and offer insight on what makes the School so special.
October 28, 2022
Congratulations, Leticia Salvador Vieira, on receiving the 3rd prize for Best Podium Presentation at the GPEN Conference
Congratulations, Leticia Salvador Vieira, on receiving the 3rd prize for Best Podium Presentation at the 13th biennial Globalization of Pharmaceutics…
June 3, 2022
Sara Shum Receives Gillette Award for Publication
Sara Shum ‘21, a PhD graduate from UWSOP’s Department of Pharmaceutics, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2021…
May 11, 2022
UWSOP Professor Wins Award of Excellence in 2022
The School of Pharmacy is proud to announce that Yvonne Lin ’02, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, will…
May 6, 2022
Pharmaceutics Student Wins Mary Gates Research Scholarship
UWSOP Department of Pharmaceutics student, Roshni Sabhaya, has been awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship to investigate the effects of…
April 13, 2022
Four UWSOP Faculty Each Receive $20k Innovation Award for 2022
The UWSOP Faculty Innovation Award provides financial support of up to $20,000 each for high-risk, innovative research projects. The reviewers…
March 17, 2022
“Kidney on a Chip” team Awarded Contract for New Study and Collaboration
UWSOP Assistant Professor and Kidney Research Institute Investigator Cathy Yeung ‘05 and her team—composed of Ed Kelly, Benjamin “Beno” Freedman,…
March 8, 2022
Ed Kelly Joins NASA Panel
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the…
Students Provide Hopeful ‘FEEDBACK’
New initiative champions equity among marginalized students. Though the University of Washington (UW) prides itself on diversity, there’s still much…
January 12, 2022
Ken Thummel Receives 2022 ASPET Bernard B. Brodie Award
UWSOP Pharmaceutics professor Ken Thummel was recently named recipient of the 2022 Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism and Disposition from…
November 12, 2021
Nina Isoherranen named the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics
UWSOP’s Department of Pharmaceutics Chair, Nina Isoherranen, has been named the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics. Isoherranen is the…
April 21, 2021
Leticia Salvador Vieira Named Magnuson Scholar Award Recipient
Congratulations to the Department of Pharmaceutics’ Leticia Salvador Vieira for being named the UW School of Pharmacy’s 2021-22 Magnuson Scholar…
January 15, 2021
Ed Kelly Receives the 2021 MLK Community Service Award
UWSOP Pharmaceutics Associate Professor Ed Kelly has been presented with the 2021 MLK Community Service Award, an annual honor celebrating individuals or groups who exemplify Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principles. A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion in sciences for his entire career, Ed has served as a mentor for entering UW freshman in the GenOM-ALVA program for the past 15 years and frequently hosts diverse students from the Stipends for Training Aspiring Researchers (STAR) summer program.
December 9, 2020
WE-REACH Executive Director Dr. Rodney JY Ho to be named NAI Fellow
The Washington Entrepreneurial Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (WE-REACH) is honored to announce that WE-REACH Executive Director and UWSOP Professor…
November 18, 2020
Out Of The Lab And On The Air
Department of Pharmaceutics student Kendan Jones-Issac has found his voice. Third-year Department of Pharmaceutics graduate student Kendan Jones-Issac has participated…
November 16, 2020
UWSOP Alumna Deanna Kroetz Named Jere E. Goyan Presidential Chair At UCSF
UWSOP alumni legend Deanna Kroetz was recently named the inaugural Jere E. Goyan Presidential Chair for the Advancement of Pharmacy at…
November 2, 2020
Pharmaceutics Graduate Fellowship Support
Graduate students are at the heart of our leading innovations and most impactful work — from modeling pharmacokinetic changes during…
July 14, 2020
Sara Shum named winner of 2020 UWSOP Pharmaceutics’ Graduate Student Leadership Award
Congratulations to Sara Shum, a #UWSOP Department of Pharmaceutics graduate student who was awarded the 2020 UWSOP Pharmaceutics’ Graduate Student…
Biomedical innovations win WE-REACH go-to-market awards
Seattle, WA (July 14, 2020)—The Washington Entrepreneurial Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (WE-REACH) is pleased to announce its first awards…
January 31, 2020
UW’s new WE-REACH center to accelerate development of the ‘most exciting’ biomedical discoveries
With well over a billion dollars in research funding annually, the University of Washington is an engine of discovery and…
January 24, 2020
Xu and Kelly receive SOP Faculty Innovation Award
Libin Xu and Ed Kelly take a novel approach to investigate toxicity of common household cleaners Libin Xu and Ed…
January 17, 2020
Pharmaceutics student, Kendan Jones-Isaac honored at the UW Health Sciences Martin Luther King Tribute
The award honors individuals or groups who exemplify Martin Luther King’s principles: a commitment to the needs of communities, particularly…
September 18, 2019
Promoted UWSOP faculty tackling tough problems facing population health with novel approaches
Recently promoted faculty are finding news ways to solve significant population health problems from Alzheimer’s and related dementias to kidney…
September 13, 2019
A Commitment to the End of HIV/AIDS
Shiu-Lok Hu’s work began decades ago in utter frustration with a powerful and unknown virus and continues today…with promising new…
Improving Care for Alaska Native People
One of the University of Washington’s significant population health projects began ten years ago with a collaboration led by Pharmaceutics…
September 10, 2019
The Future of Pharmacy
Celebrating 125 Years of Impact & Innovation Our mission is to develop exceptional pharmacy leaders and researchers, discover solutions to…
July 22, 2019
Nina Isoherranen named Chair of Pharmaceutics Department
On July 1, 2019, UW School of Pharmacy Professor and Dean Sean D. Sullivan appointed Professor Nina Isoherranen to the…
July 17, 2019
Ken Thummel returns to faculty after 13 years of success as Chair
After thirteen years leading the Department of Pharmaceutics to international success, Professor Kenneth Thummel will return to faculty full time…
July 1, 2019
Congratulations to our recent Pharmaceutics PhD alumni!
We are so proud of our Pharmaceutics PhD alumni who completed their dissertation research in academic year 2018-2019. Ryan…
June 18, 2019
Lopez receives 2019 UWSOP Pharmaceutics’ Graduate Student Leadership Award
The UW School of Pharmacy Graduate Program Awards offer special recognition of our preeminent graduate students and faculty. We are…
June 17, 2019
Pharmacological Sciences Summer Diversity Program brings undergrad students to UWSOP
In summer 2019, we welcome two undergraduate student scientists taking part in the Pharmacological Sciences Summer Diversity Program. Sierra Napoleon,…
June 7, 2019
UWSOP at ISSX 2019 in Portland
Don’t miss out on these UWSOP alumni and faculty presenting at ISSX! This meeting will also mark the last meeting…
May 6, 2019
Rodney Ho recognized with AACP Volwiler Research Achievement Award
We are so proud to learn that Professor Rodney Ho has been named the recipient of the American Association of…
Licit and illicit drugs and maternal health
Qingcheng Mao collaborates with colleagues across UWSOP to gain insight into how pregnancy affects drug disposition in expectant mothers and…
Kidney on a Chip has gone to outer space..and returned to Earth!
What did it take to send delicate kidney cells into space to be studied by astronauts wearing big, clunky gloves…
April 23, 2019
Henderson wins poster award at national AsPET Conference
Congratulations to PharmD and Pharmaceutics PhD student Lindsay Henderson who received the 2nd place graduate student poster presentation award for…
5/3 UPDATE: 5/3 11:48 PM PDT launch for Kidney on a Chip project to the International Space Station!
Updated May 3, 11:29 am Pacific: NASA has pushed back the launch to Friday, May 3 at 11:48 PM Pacific…
January 23, 2019
Undaunted by setbacks, Jash Unadkat and his lab team search for new therapies to fight Alzheimer’s
It’s called an experiment for a reason. The secret in science—what world-class researchers know—is that you don’t let the failures…
January 22, 2019
Jash Unadkat named Outstanding Faculty Mentor
Congratulations to Jash Unadkat, the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics, named Outstanding Faculty Mentor at this year’s Commencement. The…
January 16, 2019
Claw honored for service at Martin Luther King Tribute
We are thrilled that Pharmaceutics’ post doc Katrina Claw, PhD, will be honored with a service award at this year’s…
September 12, 2018
UW ranks 4th world wide for pharmacology and toxicology
The UW ranks 4th worldwide in Pharmacology and Toxicology, a subject that includes pharmacy, pharmacology, substance abuse, and toxicology, according…
September 10, 2018
UW/KRI Kidney-on-a-chip will travel to International Space Station
UW Pharmacy and UW Medicine team to study how weightlessness accelerates kidney damage In 2019, a rocket carrying a payload…
June 29, 2018
Unadkat, Shoner, and team make drug glow to watch it move in the body
UW Medicine’s radiology team last month created a novel imaging agent and, in an expansive team effort, performed a first-in-human…
June 13, 2018
In finding a different linking protein, Plotnik and Hu Lab open new possibilities for HIV therapies & treatments
Pharmaceutics graduate student David Plotnik is first author on a paper published in the Journal of Virology with his mentor…
May 30, 2018
Organs-on-chips: Tiny technology helping bring safe new drugs to patients faster
It doesn’t look like a kidney, but this ‘kidney-on-a-chip’ is a breakthrough for new drug testing. Alex Levine, CC BY-ND…
May 24, 2018
Shum and collaborators unveil new maternal and fetal health risks associated with shellfish toxin
Pharmaceutics graduate student Sara Shum recently presented and won an award for the preliminary results from a study of the…
April 27, 2018
Wienkers is keynote speaker at June 2018 AAPS-RMDG meeting at UW
Abstracts are due Friday, May 18, 2018 The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists – Rocky Mountain Discussion Group (AAPS-RMDG) Annual…
April 9, 2018
Huang, ’17, named UWSOP Magnuson Scholar for 2018-2019
Congratulations to Weize Huang who was named UWSOP’s Magnuson Scholar for 2018-2019! Weize graduated with a Pharm.D. degree from UWSOP…
December 1, 2017
SPECIAL EVENT: A talk with NPR’S Richard Harris
Panel Discussion: “From Rigor to Rigor Mortis–Good Science, Bad Science, and Patient Care” Noon-1:20pm, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Health Sciences…
November 27, 2017
Mao and Unadkat presented AAPS Journal High Impact Article Award
At the annual meeting in November, UW School of Pharmacy professors Qingcheng Mao and Jashvant Unadkat were presented the American…
Alumna Kroetz named AAAS Fellow
We are so proud of our Pharmaceutics alumna, Deanna Kroetz, PhD, ’90, who was among the 396 new fellows of the…
October 4, 2017
Cyrus Khojasteh receives Distinguished Alumni Award
CYRUS KHOJASTEH, ’98, chose to study Medicinal Chemistry at UWSOP after serendipitously attending a lecture by then Professor, now Dean…
October 1, 2017
John Amory MD, MS, and grad student Faith Stevison find breakthrough treatment for male infertility
Infertility can be a physically, emotionally, and financially painful experience for couples wanting to have biologically-related children. If a couple…
July 5, 2017
Sager, Bounthavong, Seguin, Weber, & Shen receive inaugural UWSOP Graduate Program Awards
To recognize extraordinary excellence among our graduate students and faculty, UW School of Pharmacy established three new award programs in…
June 2, 2017
Pharmaceutics lab team learns why HIV prevention drug is not as effective in some women
Klatt lab team’s findings published in Science offer solutions to increase efficacy More than 1 million women are infected with…
May 30, 2017
Inaugural Plein Symposium advances geriatric pharmacy
“Celebrating Today, Planning Tomorrow” brought together a host of disciplines to discuss healthy aging Decades ago, geriatric pharmacy pioneers Joy…
May 24, 2017
Hu and Lee combine forces to design novel HIV vaccine
Pharmaceutics Professor Shiu-Lok Hu and Kelly Lee, Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, received funding for research to create a vaccine…
March 31, 2017
UW Team develops an HIV therapy dose that lasts two weeks in test model
Collaboration between UW School of Pharmacy and UW Medicine leads to promising breakthrough to ease daily regimen An interdisciplinary team…
January 4, 2017
Drug delivery device invented in UW Ho laboratory receives $36M
Venture funding to support clinical development of the company’s lead compounds Impel NeuroPharma, Inc., a Seattle-based clinical stage biotechnology company…
November 7, 2016
Navajo genetic scientist Katrina Claw bridges cultures to advance research and underrepresented scientists
As a Navajo scientist trained in genomics, UWSOP post doctoral researcher Katrina Claw is on a two-fold mission to make…
October 31, 2016
Common genetic disorder linked to increased death rate from cancer drug
Researchers recommend ‘caution’ when using the chemotherapy busulfan in patients with Gilbert’s syndrome By Susan Keown, Staff Writer, Fred Hutch News…
October 26, 2016
Sid Nelson’s legacy lives on in science and collaboration
Busulfan is one of our oldest anticancer drugs. Today, it is often used to prepare a patient’s body for a…
August 16, 2016
UW team finds key piece to HIV drug-effectiveness puzzle
Pharmaceutics researchers detect bacteria that counteracts protective drug Increasingly, people at risk for HIV infection are turning to preventive drug…
July 1, 2016
UW and Teva partner to increase provider access to critical drug interaction data
Clinical content from UW School of Pharmacy’s Drug Interaction Database to be integrated into Teva’s DDI+ platform to help improve…
April 15, 2016
UW Symposium on Past Present and Future of ADME Sciences Dedicated to Deans Sid Nelson and Tom Baillie
“Thanks to the strong academic programs in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Washington, I…
January 21, 2016
Award season comes to UWSOP!
It’s award season–not just for film, also for the UW School of Pharmacy! Many of our School’s faculty, students, post docs and…
December 22, 2015
The Art of Science: “Human Kidney Tubule Cells” by Jenna Voellinger
In addition to being a newly-minted Ph.D., Jenna L. Voellinger is also an exhibiting artist. Her image, “Human Kidney Tubule…
December 8, 2015
Pharmaceutics welcomes six new students with a passion for discovery
UWSOP’s Department of Pharmaceutics welcomed six new students this fall, here to join a great tradition of life-changing research….
November 19, 2015
Pharmaceutics’ Carol Collins part of drug risks in pregnancy mobile app team
Carol Collins, Clinical Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics, will bring her expertise in drug safety information and the design of drug safety…
November 2, 2015
Intercollegiate team will study natural product-drug interactions
Herbal remedies are a multi-billion dollar industry. Sales of natural product supplements have nearly tripled in the past twenty years…
August 30, 2015
Zhang named inaugural Ji-Ping Wang Endowed Fellow
The inaugural Ji-Ping Wang Fellow is Faye Zhang in the Department of Pharmaceutics. Faye Zhang (pictured left) received her B.S….
July 30, 2015
UW-led team to develop innovative HIV treatment lasting at least 7 days
New regimen would make it easier for patients and potentially clear residual virus An interdisciplinary team led by Professors…
Ragueneau-Majlessi named UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellow
UW School of Pharmacy Pharmaceutics Clinical Professor Isabelle Ragueneau-Majlessi has been named a UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellow for 2015….
June 17, 2015
Scenes from Commencement 2015
Friday was a day of recognition and celebration! Over 100 graduate and PharmD students received their degrees and began a…
April 13, 2015
Solving Bietti’s Crystalline Dystrophy is mission of Pharmaceutics Prof Kelly
Department of Pharmaceutics Associate Professor Ed Kelly and graduate student Cate Lockhart (UW PharmD, ’13) are undaunted by the challenge…
April 8, 2015
Pharmaceutics Ph.D. Student Alenka Jaklic Named Magnuson Scholar
We are so proud of Pharmaceutics third year Ph.D. student, Alenka Jaklic, this year’s School of Pharmacy Magnuson Scholar! Alenka…
April 3, 2015
Three Pharmaceutics Graduate Students Selected for Prestigious ITHS TL1 Scholar Award
Congratulations go to Brian Chapron, Cate Lockhart and Savannah Kerr and who were selected as Institute of Translational Health Sciences…
March 27, 2015
New center to use novel method to screen chemicals’ toxicity
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will provide $6 million in seed funding for a Predictive Toxicology Center at the University…
February 23, 2015
Klatt Receives NIDA/NIH Award to Research Cannabis Impact on HIV
Pharmaceutics Assistant Professor, Nichole Klatt is one of five scientists selected to receive the prestigious 2015 Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS…
December 12, 2014
Why the Bad Taste? Dr. Joanne Wang’s Team Finds a Reason
TAKING A MEDICATION AS PRESCRIBED IS CRITICAL to a drug’s effectiveness. But for some people, taking medications literally turns their…
October 15, 2014
North American ISSX Meeting will award two of our faculty.
Not one, but two of our faculty were selected to receive the only awards given by The International Society for…
June 26, 2014
UW Pharmacy Huskies Lead the Pack
As a School of Pharmacy consistently in the Top 10 nationally, we’ve come to expect our students, faculty, and alumni…
June 23, 2014
Professor Thummel elected President of ASPET
The Chair of Pharmaceutics, Ken Thummel will take office July 1, 2014. The 4,800- member society was founded in 1908…
June 22, 2014
Vineet Kumar: Graduate Student, Unadkat Lab, winner of the 2013/14 Simcyp Fellowship
The response received to the first call was tremendous but only a select number of applications were forwarded to the…
June 21, 2014
UW researchers win grant to study effects of drugs during pregnancy
University of Washington faculty members from the School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine will study the effects of drugs…
Top 10 MOST Cited Articles by the AAPS Journal:
Ho-Leung Fung, Ph.D., is editor-in-chief of The AAPS Journal. At The AAPS Journal Editorial Advisory Board meeting at the 2013…
WELCOME New Students
New Students (from left to right) Faith Stevison, Gabriela Patilea, Jake Kraft, David Wagner and Savannah Kerr Link to Pharmaceutics…
June 17, 2014
2013 Gibaldi Picnic
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June 15, 2014
Congratulations to the class of 2013!
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June 10, 2014
News digest: Recyclemania results, professor speaks on career journey, Honor: Rodney Ho
Professor Ho to receive award at National Biotechnology Conference later this month. Professor Rodney Ho will receive the Research Achievement…
June 8, 2014
Congrats to pharmaceutics grad students
Congrats to pharmaceutics grad students Jessica Tay and Jenna Voellinger for winning second and third place respectively for their poster…
June 1, 2014
Nasal Drug-Delivery System Noted as a Seattle Innovation
Magazine article highlights the work of a company that markets an invention made at our School. Impel Neurophama, a company…
May 26, 2014
Dr. Ed Kelly, a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics received a Jaconetter L. Tietze Yong Scientist Award
for his project “Identification of MicroRNA Regulators of Hepatocyte Development“. The monies provided by the award will be of great…
May 25, 2014
2010 graduate, Dr. John Hoekman received the UW Graduate School’s 6th Chapter Award
2010 graduate, Dr. John Hoekman received the UW Graduate School’s 6th Chapter Awardfor his dissertation “The Impact of Enhanced Olfactory…
May 23, 2014
Dr. Shiu-Lok_Hu is awarded with Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professorship in Pharmaceutics.
The fund was created in 2008 in honor of the late School of Pharmacy Dean Milo Gibaldi. He was dean…
May 22, 2014
Nora Lee, a graduate student at the Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy is one of the recipients of this year’s Warren G. Magnuson scholarships.
The award will provide the scholar with financial support of up to $25,000 for her research needs. Ms Nora Lee…
May 20, 2014
PGRN received grant to study underserved populations
Ken Thummel, chair and professor of pharmaceutics, and Wylie Burke, chair and professor of…
May 17, 2014
Li Liu, a PhD candidate in Dr. Jashvant D. Unadkat’s labrom Dept of Pharmaceutics, was awarded 1st place
Li Liu, a PhD candidate in Dr. Jashvant D. Unadkat’s lab from Dept of Pharmaceutics, was awarded 1st place in…
April 12, 2014
Congratulations to Alice Ke, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pharmaceutics and ORISE fellow in the FDA Office of Clinical Pharmacology
Congratulations to Alice Ke, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pharmaceutics and ORISE fellow in the FDA Office of Clinical…
April 3, 2014
Pharmaceutics graduate students Diana Shuster and Jenna Voellinger received (ITHS) training awards
Pharmaceutics graduate students Diana Shuster and Jenna Voellinger received Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research…
Nora Lee and postdoc Cara Nelson won the graduate student category of the poster competition
Pharmaceutics graduate student Nora Lee and postdoc Cara Nelson did an outstanding job at the recent American Society for Pharmacology…
December 9, 2013
Professor Emeritus Gets Lifetime Achievement Award
The American Epilepsy Society (AES) has announced that Rene Levy, professor and chair emeritus of our Department of Pharmaceutics, will…
November 19, 2013
A Closer Look: Q&A with Jashvant Unadkat
In this Q&A, Professor of Pharmaceutics Unadkat discusses his new National Institute on Drug Abuse grant and its goals of…
October 21, 2013
IPSF Welcomes Another Exchange Student
Finnish pharmacy student Arto Heinonen poses in the front of this photo, which was taken during a social event with…
October 8, 2013
Grant to Study Drug Disposition in Pregnancy
A new, $4.7 million NIH grant will study how certain drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized and excreted in the body…
September 2, 2013
‘Columns’ Faculty Profile: Professor Shiu-Lok Hu
The September issue of ‘Columns,’ the UW alumni magazine, profiles faculty member Shiu-Lok Hu. He is part of an international…
July 18, 2013
Professor’s Startup Highlighted in UW Showcase
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho’s new startup, Nova TheraNostics, has developed a brighter, longer lasting and safer MRI contrast agent….
May 8, 2013
Rodney Ho Receives National Research Honor
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho received the Research Achievement in Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. UW…
April 19, 2013
Faculty Member, School Profiled in Magazine
Starting on Page 67 of this issue of ‘International Innovation,’ there are four pages discussing the work of Associate Professor…
January 29, 2013
Pharmaceutics professor wins Early Career Achievement Award
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics Isoherranen will receive the Drug Metabolism Division Early Career Achievement Award from the American Society for…
October 14, 2012
Unadkat Awarded for Scientific Contributions
Professor of Pharmaceutics Jashvant Unadkat has received the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Research Achievement Award in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and…
July 27, 2012
Studying Microchips that Imitate Human Organs
Faculty contribute to federal initiative researching how computer chips could test for drug safety UW researchers are part of an…
July 22, 2012
NIH Grant Helps Turn Research Into Medical Products
The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences recently received its second five-year, $65 million grant from the National Institutes of…
June 25, 2012
Highlighting the Promise of Personalized Medicine
Erica Woodahl, PhD, ’04, is working to improve participation in pharmacogenetic research and to build respectful relationships between researchers and…
June 9, 2012
Four of our faculty members are featured on the journal’s “Top Ten Most Viewed Papers” list.
A paper published in “Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics” by pharmaceutics alumnus Songmao “Ben” Zheng and four of our faculty members…
May 24, 2012
New Partnership Forms to Support Drug Development
Program seeks to provide better understanding of drug transporters, personalized medicine. Professor of Pharmaceutics Jashvant Unadkat has started the UW…
December 14, 2011
Shen, Unadkat Named Fellows of AAAS
Nine UW researchers are among 539 new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Danny Shen, professor…
December 7, 2011
Hu Receives Major Boost in Search for HIV Vaccine
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Shiu-Lok Hu, Gibaldi endowed professor of pharmaceutics, a $6.7 million grant to…
October 12, 2011
Ed Kelly Receives Tietze Young Scientist Award
Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics Ed Kelly has received the Jaconette L. Tietze Young Scientist Award from the UW Institute…
October 5, 2011
UW Graduate School Honors Pharmaceutics Alumnus
John Hoekman, Ph.D., Pharmaceutics, ’10, has received the UW Graduate School’s ‘6th Chapter Award’ for his dissertation. This award is…
October 4, 2011
UW Lecture Series Features Pharmaceutics Professor
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho was among the six faculty members to speak in the UW Center for Commercialization lecture…
April 6, 2011
Pharmaceutics Student Receives University of Washington Magnuson Scholarship
Nora Lee is one of six students from the health sciences schools to be named a 2011 Magnuson Scholar, one…
April 1, 2011
Dr. Ho Featured in ‘Puget Sound Business Journal’
Pharmaceutics Professor Rodney Ho was recently named an Entrepreneurial Fellow by the UW Center for Commercialization. ThePuget Sound Business Journal…
March 31, 2011
Dr. Ho Named Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho was honored as one of the UW’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers, under a new fellowship…
February 8, 2011
Grant Will Develop a Device Created at the School
Impel Neuropharma, a biotech started by John Hoekman, Ph.D., ’10, and Professor Rodney Ho, received a Life Sciences Discovery Fund…
January 26, 2011
Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Rene Levy
Professor and Chair Emeritus of Pharmaceutics Rene Levy has received the 2011 Arthur A. Ward, Jr. Achievement in Epilepsy Award…
September 7, 2010
Major Grant Will Support Underserved Populations
Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutics Ken Thummel and colleagues recently learned they have received a $10 million NIH grant to…
July 20, 2010
Life Sciences Discovery Fund Issues Awards
Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho has received an LSDF grant to develop a safer and more effective…
February 25, 2010
School to Host Biosimilars Conference
The Conference on Biosimilars will take place Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, on campus. Faculty members from the…
February 1, 2010
Pharmaceutics Professor Featured in UW Report
Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho was highlighted in the 2009 UW Foundation Report to Contributors. Read more. …
January 8, 2010
Levy Retires After Almost 40 Years
Dr. Rene Levy, professor of pharmaceutics and director of the Metabolism and Transport Drug Interaction Database (DIDB), retired at the…
June 25, 2009
Groundbreaking Technology Goes Commercial
Groundbreaking Technology Goes Commercial, (June 25, 2009), Read article about Impel Link to Pharmaceutics archived news
April 9, 2009
Pharmaceutics Professor Receives Prestigious Biotechnology Award
Pharmaceutics Professor Receives Prestigious Biotechnology Award, AACP Press Release (March 26, 2009), U Week Article(April 9, 2009) Link to…
January 8, 2009
Dr. Ho Named Fellow of Preeminent Association
Dr. Ho Named Fellow of Preeminent Association (January 8, 2009) Link to Pharmaceutics archived news
October 9, 2008
Search tool that makes drugs safer is poised for growth
Drug-Interaction Database Poised for Growth (October 9, 2008) Link to Pharmaceutics archived news
October 2, 2008
Shen to head national pharmaceutical group
Shen to Head National Pharmaceutical Group (October 2, 2008) Link to Pharmaceutics archived news
May 28, 2008
Pharmaceutics Ph.D. Student Wins Grand Prize in Innovation Competition
Pharmaceutics student John Hoekman, along with MBA students Michael Hite and Peter Olagunju, recently took first place in the UW…
December 3, 2007
UW School of Pharmacy Ph.D. Research Programs Rank #1
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences research programs are the best in the nation…
October 1, 2007
Two Professors Named as Fellows, AAAS and ASCP
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy is proud to announce that two if its professors, Drs. Rene Levy and…
January 9, 2005
Faculty Members’ Research Gets National Distinction
A 2005 study by Qingcheng Mao and Jashvant Unadkat is one of the 10 most-cited articles in the American Association…
August 2, 2004
DMTPR Welcomes Seventh Industry Partner
The Drug Metabolism, Transport and Pharmacogenomic Research (DMTPR) program, launched in January of this year, is the result of a…
March 12, 2004
DMTPR Launched January 1, 2004
In the fall of 2002, corporate advisors and board members recommended that the School address the emerging gap between industrial…
August 12, 2003
New Associate Dean for Research and New Initiatives Named at the School of Pharmacy
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy has announced the appointment of Dr. Ken Thummel to Associate Dean for Research…
July 15, 2003
NIH Grant Awarded to the Department of Pharmaceutics for study on how pregnant women handle drugs
The UW Department of Pharmaceutics won an unprecedented grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will enable UW…
July 12, 2003
Drs. Ho and Gibaldi Team Up on Landmark Therapeutics Book
For the first time, a comprehensive study of biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals has been completed by two luminaries in pharmaceutical sciences,…