Department News
Out Of The Lab And On The Air
Third-year Department of Pharmaceutics graduate student Kendan Jones-Issac has participated in several ambitious projects during his tenure at UW, including working on the development of a bioengineered kidney tissue chip that will improve the safety and efficacy of drug... Read more...
UWSOP Alumna Deanna Kroetz Named Jere E. Goyan Presidential Chair At UCSF
A professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Deanna graduated from UWSOP’s Department of Pharmaceutics with a PhD in ... Read more...
Pharmaceutics Graduate Fellowship Support
Graduate students are at the heart of our leading innovations and most impactful work — from modeling pharmacokinetic changes during pregnancy, to groundbreaking discoveries in drug transport, metabolism and drug-drug interactions that inform government policy and developing approaches to combat infectious disease globally. They are the inspi... Read more...
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 Leadership Award in May. Sara, who expects to graduate this fall with her PhD in Pharmaceutics, joined the Department of Pharmaceutics in 2016, and Dr. Nina Isoherranen's lab in 2017. Sara has demons... Read more...
Biomedical innovations win WE-REACH go-to-market awards
UW’s new WE-REACH center to accelerate development of the ‘most exciting’ biomedical discoveries
Xu and Kelly receive SOP Faculty Innovation Award
Pharmaceutics student, Kendan Jones-Isaac honored at the UW Health Sciences Martin Luther King Tribute
Kendan Jones-Isaac was honored with a service award at this year’s ... Read more...
Promoted UWSOP faculty tackling tough problems facing population health with novel approaches
Abhinav Nath, PhD, A... Read more...
A Commitment to the End of HIV/AIDS
“I began this work 30 years ago and have seen the diagnosis of AIDS change from a certain death sentence to a manageable chronic condition. My dream is to se... Read more...
Improving Care for Alaska Native People
The Future of Pharmacy
Celebrating 125 Years of Impact & Innovation
Our mission is to develop exceptional pharmacy leaders and researchers, discover solutions to improve population health, and serve the health and well-being of the public, locally and globally...even in space.
“We aren’t waiting for the future to happen. We are proactively accounting for what... Read more...
Nina Isoherranen named Chair of Pharmaceutics Department
“From her first days here as a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Isoherranen demonstrated the standard of excellence and inn... Read more...
Ken Thummel returns to faculty after 13 years of success as Chair
Dr. Thummel was appointed Chair of the Pharmaceutics Department in 2006. He assumed that role from the Depart... Read more...
Congratulations to our recent Pharmaceutics PhD alumni!
Ryan Cheu
Dissertation: Impact of the Vaginal Microbiome on HIV Transmission
Savannah McFeely
Dissertation: Clinical Significance and Regulatory Framework for the Evaluation of Organic Anion Tran... Read more...
Lopez receives 2019 UWSOP Pharmaceutics’ Graduate Student Leadership Award
We learned from his nominators that Antonio demonstrates le... Read more...
Pharmacological Sciences Summer Diversity Program brings undergrad students to UWSOP
UWSOP at ISSX 2019 in Portland
This meeting will also mark the last meeting with Dean Emeritus Tom Baillie presiding as President of ISSX. Join us for the UWSOP alumni and friends reception at ISSX to toast Dr. Baillie and celebrate and reconnect with friends and colleagues.
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Rodney Ho recognized with AACP Volwiler Research Achievement Award
The research prize in academic pharmacy was established in honor of the late Ernest H. Volwiler, former president and research director of Abbott Laboratories.
Each year... Read more...
Licit and illicit drugs and maternal health
Kidney on a Chip has gone to outer space..and returned to Earth!
Dawg Scripts: Why did you put kidney cells on a chip?
Associate Professor Ed Kelly: As a Toxicologist, we... Read more...
Henderson wins poster award at national AsPET Conference
5/3 UPDATE: 5/3 11:48 PM PDT launch for Kidney on a Chip project to the International Space Station!
Welp. It seemed like it was going to go and then about 15 minutes before launch, the flight was scrubbed. It's rescheduled for tonight 11:48 PM Pacific Time. Here is an update on NASA's blog.
May 2 up... Read more...
Undaunted by setbacks, Jash Unadkat and his lab team search for new therapies to fight Alzheimer’s
For scientists as creative and productive as Jash Unadkat, learning to move past the failures, to learn from them and contin... Read more...
Jash Unadkat named Outstanding Faculty Mentor
The criteria for this Award include extraordinary commitment and effect... Read more...
Claw honored for service at Martin Luther King Tribute
To be recognized for my outreach and mentorship of Native American and other his... Read more...
UW ranks 4th world wide for pharmacology and toxicology
The list provides overall rankings; rankings by six fields; and by 14 selected subjects, including Pharmacology and Toxicology. Overall the UW is No. 4 in ... Read more...
UW/KRI Kidney-on-a-chip will travel to International Space Station
In 2019, a rocket carrying a payload that includes 24 microfluidic chips about the size of credit cards will transport an extraordinary University of Washington kidney research project to the International Space Station.University of Washington School of Pharmac... Read more...
Unadkat, Shoner, and team make drug glow to watch it move in the body
Spoiler alert: It’s mostly in the liver, kidneys and bladder.
The statin – rosuvastatin (Crestor), a cholesterol-low... Read more...
In finding a different linking protein, Plotnik and Hu Lab open new possibilities for HIV therapies & treatments
Why is that important? HIV causes disease by killing the immune system’s protective T cell... Read more...
Organs-on-chips: Tiny technology helping bring safe new drugs to patients faster
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Catherine Yeung, University of Washington; Edward Kelly, University of Washington, and Jonathan Himmelfarb, University of Washington
Getting a new pharmaceutical from an idea in the chemistry lab to market takes many y... Read more...
Shum and collaborators unveil new maternal and fetal health risks associated with shellfish toxin
Wienkers is keynote speaker at June 2018 AAPS-RMDG meeting at UW
The RMDG provides a forum for interacting with scientists ... Read more...
Huang, ’17, named UWSOP Magnuson Scholar for 2018-2019
SPECIAL EVENT: A talk with NPR’S Richard Harris
Noon-1:20pm, Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Health Sciences Building, T-435
Light refreshments will be served
Panel Discussion:
Richard Harris, NPR Science Correspondent and author, Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hop... Read more...
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 Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Journal High Impact Article Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences as demonstrated by the authors in the q... Read more...
Alumna Kroetz named AAAS Fellow
Cyrus Khojasteh receives Distinguished Alumni Award
John Amory MD, MS, and grad student Faith Stevison find breakthrough treatment for male infertility
Sager, Bounthavong, Seguin, Weber, & Shen receive inaugural UWSOP Graduate Program Awards
Pharmaceutics lab team learns why HIV prevention drug is not as effective in some women
Inaugural Plein Symposium advances geriatric pharmacy
Decades ago, geriatric pharmacy pioneers Joy and Elmer Plein foresaw the need to research the effects medications have on older adults. The Inaugural Research Symposium for the Plein Center held in February 2017 provided the opportunity to learn ... Read more...
Hu and Lee combine forces to design novel HIV vaccine
HIV is a highly lethal virus that... Read more...
UW Team develops an HIV therapy dose that lasts two weeks in test model
An interdisciplinary team led by Professors Rodney JY Ho of the UW School of Pharmacy and Ann Collier of the UW School of Medicine has been working to develop a long-lasting (7-day) therapy for HIV and are already making advances into ... Read more...
Drug delivery device invented in UW Ho laboratory receives $36M
Impel NeuroPharma, Inc., a Seattle-based clinical stage biotechnology company announced a $36 million Series C round to develop a pipeline of drug-device combination products built upon its Precision Olfactory Delivery™ (POD™) nasal delivery platform.
The POD... Read more...
Navajo genetic scientist Katrina Claw bridges cultures to advance research and underrepresented scientists
“I am like a bridge. I connect Native knowledge and Western science, but I am also walked ov... Read more...
Common genetic disorder linked to increased death rate from cancer drug
By Susan Keown, Staff Writer, Fred Hutch News Service, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Research published Thursday shows that a common genetic disorder ― one that many people don’t even know they have ― is linked to a mor... Read more...
Sid Nelson’s legacy lives on in science and collaboration
But busulfan is toxic.
The work to mitigate that toxic... Read more...
UW team finds key piece to HIV drug-effectiveness puzzle
Increasingly, people at risk for HIV infection are turning to preventive drug measures to help stave off the virus. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy found that one such drug, Tenofovir, in the form of a topical vaginal gel, is metabolized, or... Read more...
UW and Teva partner to increase provider access to critical drug interaction data
The University of Washington (UW) announced today an exclusive partnership that will allow the university's unique, comprehensive and high-quality pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic Drug Inter... Read more...
UW Symposium on Past Present and Future of ADME Sciences Dedicated to Deans Sid Nelson and Tom Baillie
Award season comes to UWSOP!
Many of our School's faculty, students, post docs and alumni have been recognized in the past few months for their accomplishments.
Don Downing, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award
Institute for Innovative Pharmacy Practice (I2P2) Endowed Clinical Professor D... Read more...
The Art of Science: “Human Kidney Tubule Cells” by Jenna Voellinger
Her image, “Human Kidney Tubule Cells,” created as a graduate student in the laboratory of Edward J. Kelly, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, graces one of the classrooms in the T-Wing of the UW Health Sciences Building.
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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. These researchers share a passion for discovery and come to our school from all over the world, and from all sorts of backgrounds: from English majors to chemists and biologists.
Originally from the Ukrai... Read more...
Pharmaceutics’ Carol Collins part of drug risks in pregnancy mobile app team
Intercollegiate team will study natural product-drug interactions
Zhang named inaugural Ji-Ping Wang Endowed Fellow
UW-led team to develop innovative HIV treatment lasting at least 7 days
An interdisciplinary team led by Professors Rodney JY Ho of the UW School of Pharmacy and Ann Collier of the UW School of Medicine received $14M from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a long-lasting (7-day) therapy for HIV. The two co-Princ... Read more...
Ragueneau-Majlessi named UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellow
Ragueneau-Majlessi is the co-author of the Drug-Drug Interaction (DIDB) and Pharmacogenetic (e-PK... Read more...
Scenes from Commencement 2015
Solving Bietti’s Crystalline Dystrophy is mission of Pharmaceutics Prof Kelly
Pharmaceutics Ph.D. Student Alenka Jaklic Named Magnuson Scholar
Alenka has had the unique opportunity to join the start-up of an NIH-funded project aiming to develop a novel microphysiological system (MPS) that recapitulates key aspects of human kidney function, including drug transport ... Read more...
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 (ITHS) TL1 scholars starting Summer 2016. They will be participating in curriculum and interdisciplinary clinical and translational training in the program.
Cate will be conducting a pilot study of int... Read more...
New center to use novel method to screen chemicals’ toxicity
Klatt Receives NIDA/NIH Award to Research Cannabis Impact on HIV
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 stomach – and if a medication leaves a persistently bitter taste, many people, especially children and elderly patients, will take it inconsistently or not at all. In the online Journal of Biological Chemistry... Read more...
UW School of Pharmacy Researchers Ranked #7 in the World
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 the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX). Dean Emeritus Tom Baillie was selected for the North American Scientific Achievement Award and faculty member Dr. Nina Isoherranen, was selected for the North American New Investigator Award. Both awar... Read more...
UW Pharmacy Huskies Lead the Pack
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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 to further the growth of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics in the United States.
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Vineet Kumar: Graduate Student, Unadkat Lab, winner of the 2013/14 Simcyp Fellowship
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 on pregnant women with a $4.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.UW pharmaceutics professor Jashvant Unadkat will lead the five-year study, which will work on finding ways to predict how pregnant women and ... Read more...
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 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Antonio, I shared a list of the top 10 articles cited over the short history of our publication. These articles, shown below, reflect the diverse fields covered by The AA... Read more...
WELCOME New Students
New Students (from left to right) Faith Stevison, Gabriela Patilea, Jake Kraft, David Wagner and Savannah Kerr
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2013 Gibaldi Picnic
Congratulations to the class of 2013!
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 in Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He is receiving this honor for the high quality of his work and its impact. Full story...
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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 presentations in the Predoctoral Awards Competition at the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics conference in Dallas!
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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 started by Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho, John Hoekman, PhD, ’10, and a UW business school alumnus is showcased in a ‘Pacific Northwest’ magazine article about Seattle’s booming invention market. Impel is dev... Read more...
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 assistance in terms of generating preliminary data for a future grant submission and will help with support of graduate student research activities.
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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 Deposition and Retention on Direct Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery.”
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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 from 1978 to 1998 and was renowned for his work in pharmacokinetics. He helped make the UW School of Pharmacy one of the nation’s premier pharmacy institutions. For full article click here.
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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 is currently in her third year of studies toward her PhD and she works as a Graduate Research Assistant in Dr. Joanne Wang’s laboratory. Ms Lee demonstrates academic excellence and is highly promising in becoming a productive research ... Read more...
PGRN received grant to study underserved populations
Ken Thummel, chair and professor of pharmaceutics, and Wylie Burke, chair and professor of bioethics and humanities, and colleagues, recently learned they have received a five-year, $10 million grant from the NIH’s Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN) to create a Northwest-Alaska... Read more...
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 the poster presentation competition at the ISSX-17th North American Regional Meeting, for her work on the clinical PET study “Can P-glycoprotein at the Human Blood-Brain Barrier be Induced by Rifampin? A PET Imaging Study”. Li was a... Read more...
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 Pharmacology, who received the 2011 OCP Science Day Poster Presentation First Prize Award in October in Maryland. Her poster title was “Refinement and Validation of a PBPK Model to Predict Disposition of Drugs in Preg... Read more...
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 Training awards for the upcoming 2012-13 academic year. The ITHS TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program sponsors a year-long intensive cli... Read more...
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 and Experimental Therapeutics Annual Meeting. Lee (Adviser Joanne Wang) won the graduate student category of the poster competition in the Drug Metabolism Division. Her poster was from a study in our Obstetric-F... Read more...
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 receive the William G. Lennox—Cesare T. Lombroso Award during this week's AES 67th annual meeting and scientific conference in Washington, D.C. Levy is a pharmaceutical chemist and the developer and director ... Read more...
A Closer Look: Q&A with Jashvant Unadkat
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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 UW students this past summer.
This past spring and summer, our School's chapter of the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation welcomed another exchange student. Arto Heinonen came to the UW School of Pharmacy from the U... Read more...
Grant to Study Drug Disposition in Pregnancy
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‘Columns’ Faculty Profile: Professor Shiu-Lok Hu
Professor’s Startup Highlighted in UW Showcase
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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 Today announcement Center for Commercialization article
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Faculty Member, School Profiled in Magazine
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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 Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. The prestigious honor goes to investigators who have received their doctorate within the last 15 years. 'The Daily' 'UW Today'
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Researching Male Birth Control Pill Options
Unadkat Awarded for Scientific Contributions
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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 initiative to engineer three-dimensional chips containing living cells and tissues that imitate the structure and function of human organs. These tissue chips will be used for drug safety testing. Pharmaceutics professo... Read more...
NIH Grant Helps Turn Research Into Medical Products
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Highlighting the Promise of Personalized Medicine
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Four of our faculty members are featured on the journal’s “Top Ten Most Viewed Papers” list.
The paper is entitled “Measurement and Compartmental Modeling of the Effect of CYP3A5 Gene Variation on Systemic and Intrarenal ... Read more...
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 Research Affiliates Program on Transporters (UWRAPT). It is a cooperative effort between the School and AstraZeneca, Genentech and Merck in which scientists are collaborating on research to faci... Read more...
Shen, Unadkat Named Fellows of AAAS
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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 join the Consortium for AIDS Vaccine Discovery. He will collaborate with researchers from the Universities of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania on his four-year HIV vaccine research project. Read more.
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Ed Kelly Receives Tietze Young Scientist Award
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UW Graduate School Honors Pharmaceutics Alumnus
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UW Lecture Series Features Pharmaceutics Professor
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Pharmaceutics Student Receives University of Washington Magnuson Scholarship
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Dr. Ho Featured in ‘Puget Sound Business Journal’
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Dr. Ho Named Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow
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Grant Will Develop a Device Created at the School
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Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Rene Levy
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Major Grant Will Support Underserved Populations
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Life Sciences Discovery Fund Issues Awards
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School to Host Biosimilars Conference
Pharmaceutics Professor Featured in UW Report
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Levy Retires After Almost 40 Years
Groundbreaking Technology Goes Commercial
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Pharmaceutics Professor Receives Prestigious Biotechnology Award
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Dr. Ho Named Fellow of Preeminent Association
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Search tool that makes drugs safer is poised for growth
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Shen to head national pharmaceutical group
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Pharmaceutics Ph.D. Student Wins Grand Prize in Innovation Competition
At an awards ceremony on Thursday, May 22, the team received the Real Networks $25,000 grand prize and a $5,000 prize in the best-idea cate... Read more...
UW School of Pharmacy Ph.D. Research Programs Rank #1
Two Professors Named as Fellows, AAAS and ASCP
Dr. Rene Levy, professor of pharmaceutics and former cha... Read more...
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 of Pharmaceutical Scientists Journal's history. Their article examined how breast cancer resistance protein relates to a range of drugs and antiviral agents. Read more
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DMTPR Welcomes Seventh Industry Partner
Merck, Eli Lilly, Bristol Myers Squibb, Roche, Amgen, Abbott and Pfizer... Read more...
DMTPR Launched January 1, 2004
New Associate Dean for Research and New Initiatives Named at the School of Pharmacy
NIH Grant Awarded to the Department of Pharmaceutics for study on how pregnant women handle drugs
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Drs. Ho and Gibaldi Team Up on Landmark Therapeutics Book
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Dr. Plein and her late husband Elmer, are widely credited for creating the momentum for senior-care pharmacy in the state of Washington at a time when few pharmacists were geriatricians and had few resources to advocate for older patients. In 1973, they developed a nursing home pharmacy course at the School of Pharmacy and Foss Home, a nursing home, with the help of a graduate student. Throughout her career, she was honored with several awards and is a beloved member of the School of Pharmacy.
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Jonathan Watanabe, ‘08, ‘12, PharmD, MS, PhD, BCGP, is a board-certified geriatrics pharmacist, outcomes researcher, and associate professor at the University of California San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Watanabe was the first the UW/Allergan Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research Fellow. His research on the cost of non-optimized therapy, comprehensive medication management and drug prices has been cited in successful state legislative efforts for pharmacist provider status. Dr. Watanabe is an inaugural scholar in the National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine program.
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Bill received his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry — focusing on conformational analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance — from the University of Washington in 1965 under the supervision of the recently deceased Professor Alain Huitric. Bill went on to do his postdoctoral studies at the Chelsea School of Science and Technology in London, studying alkaloid structures with Sir Arnold Beckett.
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Herb’s time at the School of Pharmacy lead him to a life rich in love, charity and service. During his 50-year career as a pharmacy owner and clinical pharmacist, he always found a way to support his communities. From founding the Walk for Rice, a fundraising walk to support the Asian Counseling and Referral Service food bank, to donating his expertise to the Rainier Vista Clinic Pharmacy where he sourced low-cost drugs for in-need communities, Herbert was always dedicated to his community. Herbert received the Pharmacy Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008, in addition to the A.H. Robins/Wyeth Bowl of Hygeia Award and a Seattle Mayor’s Small Business Award for excellence in management, entrepreneurial spirit and customer service. He is a member of the National Community Pharmacists Association and Washington State Pharmacy Association, and a former longstanding member of the American Pharmaceutical Association and Seattle-King County Pharmaceutical Society.
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Born in Nebraska in 1892, Louis D. (L.D.) Bracken attended the UW School of Pharmacy from 1912-1913. He went on to found the L.D. Bracken Pharmacy in 1921, ultimately with locations in downtown Seattle in the Cobb Building and on First Hill. In the great tradition of compounding pharmacists, L.D. was an inventor, in addition to being an entrepreneur and health care provider. 
Henry Hank Ichiro Yamamura, ’64, died peacefully at home in September 2008 in Tucson, Ariz, at age 68. After earning his B.S. in pharmacy, he got his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the UW School of Medicine in 1969. He joined the University of Arizona in 1975 as associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology. He joined the College of Medicine in 1990 and took the position of Regent’s Professor of Pharmacology in 1997. Yamamura was internationally known for his scholarly research. He was the School of Pharmacy’s distinguished alumnus for excellence in pharmaceutical sciences in 2004.
Don attended the University of Washington nearly 72 years ago and took classes on the 3rd floor of Bagley Hall. When asked why he chose pharmacy, he said that he had been working at JCPenney’s in Ritzville, WA and really enjoyed customer service, but also had a love for chemistry. He thought that pharmacy would be a great way to do both. 
Jim L. Bracken, followed in his father’s footsteps, graduating from UWSOP in 1945 and then joining his father’s pharmacy business. When L.D. died in 1954, Jim became president of the company. L.D. and Jim were beloved leaders in the profession, serving as presidents of the Washington State Pharmacists Association and as founding members of the American College of Apothecaries.
Alice was born in Seattle in 1892. After graduating from Seattle High School, she became one of the first African-American women to study at the UW School of Pharmacy in 1910. She graduated in 1914 with a degree in pharmaceutical chemistry and a B.S. in pharmacy. After the UW, she moved to Hawaii to earn her master’s degree and teach at the University. 
Ed Wong was formerly Vice President of Pharmacy and Clinical Programs at Premera Blue Cross. He was responsible for pharmacy programs, care management, disease management and vendor contracting. While at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, he was a member of the National Council of Physician and Pharmacist Executives, served as Chair of the Pharmacist Work Group and received the Best of Blues Award. He received the 2005 Premera CEO Award for outstanding leadership.
After earning his PharmD, Brian worked for independent community pharmacies before joining the Kelley-Ross Pharmacy Group, where he helped move Kelley-Ross from a mixed-model to a closed-door, long-term care pharmacy. Brian is currently the Chief Financial Officer and manages the Union Center Pharmacy for the Kelley-Ross Pharmacy Group. Brian was presented with the 2015 National Community Pharmacists Association Prescription Drug Safety Award for his work to expand access to the overdose antidote naloxone and continues to fight the opioid overdose crisis by working to reduce the stigma surrounding opioid overdoses.
Susan is currently Senior Consultant with ASHP Consulting Services and serves as primary faculty member for the ASHP Pharmacy Leadership Academy. 
Larry C. Wienkers received his BS in Chemistry and Biology in 1986 and his MS in Chemistry in 1988 from Western Washington University. He then earned his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from University of Washington in 1993 under the direction of Dr William F. Trager. He did postdoctoral work in the department of Drug Metabolism at the Upjohn Company and subsequently joined the company as a Research Scientist 1995. 
Gayle Hudgins, Pharm. D., BCGP, is a Professor Emerita of the University of Montana Skaggs School of Pharmacy in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. She is a 1969 graduate of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy with a B.S. degree in Pharmacy and a 1976 graduate of Duquesne University with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree. She also completed a pharmacy practice residency at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. 
Growing up the son of a pharmacist in Tacoma, Richard spent his high school years working at the family store, Nelson Drug Company, before pursuing his own Pharmacy degree at the University of Washington in 1962. 
Al holds degrees from Central Washington State BS in Zoology, University of Washington BS Pharmacy, Class of 1971, and an MBA Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. 
Duane D. Miller, born 1943, grew up on a farm in Larned Kansas. He obtained his B.S. degree in Pharmacy at Kansas University in 1966, and his interest in research was stimulated by two professors at the University of Kansas, Dr. Ed Smissman and Dr. Matt Mertes. As a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow, he worked on anticancer drugs. He next moved to Seattle, Washington and was an NIH Fellow while at the University of Washington and obtained his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1969, under the mentorship of Dr. Wendel L. Nelson and did research on conformationally restricted analogs of ephedrine. He next joined The Ohio State University Faculty in 1969, where he became Professor and Chairman of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in 1982. He studied dopamine and norepinephrine analogs with Drs. Popat Patil, Norman Uretsky and Dennis Feller. He moved to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN in 1992, as the Van Vleet Endowed Professor of The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy. He was made chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2001. 
Dr. Nanci Murphy’s past roles at the University of Washington include, Collaborative Practice Specialist, Co-Director of the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice, and Associate Dean and Director of Student Leadership Programs for the School of Pharmacy. She received her PharmD degree from UW SOP in 1997. She looks forward to the next chapter of her post-retirement career contributing to an international work force group focused on interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
Timothy Fuller, ‘69, is an independent pharmacist consultant and founder of Timothy S. Fuller & Associates, Inc. Consulting. He is recognized as the Father of Pharmacist Collaborative Drug Therapy for his extensive and continued research, advocacy, and publication on the subject. In partnership with the WSPA and PATH, Tim recruited 50 pharmacies in Washington to pilot the U.S. movement for pharmacists to prescribe emergency contraceptive pills. Tim is the fourth member of the UW School of Pharmacy B.S. Class of 1969 to receive a PAA Distinguished Alumni Award.
After completing his graduate work in California, Sid Nelson returned to the School of Pharmacy to join the faculty in 1977. Progressing through the ranks, he landed his “dream job” as the Dean of the School of Pharmacy in 1995. Under his leadership, the School converted our degree offerings from a B.S. degree to an entry-level Doctor of Pharmacy degree program and added a nontraditional approach that enabled existing pharmacists to obtain the Pharm.D. degree. He also evolved the graduate programs and worked tirelessly to expand the School’s faculty. In 2008, he returned full-time to his research and teaching activities in the School’s Department of Medicinal Chemistry. Sid truly embodies the idea of a legend with his warmth, care and passion for our students and alumni.
Shirley is a Seattleite, born and raised. From a young age, she dedicated her life to advocating for women, children, human rights and healthcare. Encouragement from her mother, and her knack for science, led Shirley to Pharmacy school where she thrived. Her career helped so many people, but as the HIV/AIDS epidemic grew, it became a central part of her career. Her outreach efforts, where she went door to door to help people understand the disease, was only part of her contribution to battle the epidemic. She was a founding board member of AIDS Housing of Washington (recently renamed Building Changes) and co-chaired the $8.5 million campaign that built the group’s Bailey-Boushay House in 1992. Her legacy of advocating for women pharmacists lives on with the Herb and Shirley Bridge Endowed Professorship, designed to support women in pharmacy.
Dr. Brady was recruited to join the University of Washington by Tip Tyler, a School of Pharmacy Faculty member studying mushrooms and ergot. After completing his Ph.D. at the School of Pharmacy, Lynn joined the faculty and eventually became the first chair of the then-named Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. As a graduate student, Lynn authored or co-authored over 100 research and review articles and later in his career authored the major textbook in the field of Pharmacognosy. Lynn was very passionate about the Medicinal Herb Garden and was on the steering committee for the Friends of the Medicinal Herb Garden.
George Benson, also known as the Father of the Waterfront Street Trolley, was a WWII Navy Veteran, five-term City Council member, owner of Mission Street Pharmacy and one of the founders of the Friends of the Medicinal Herb Garden. George was nothing short of a passionate person, known throughout his life for his caring nature. He was devoted to his wife Evelyn, who was a fellow Pharmacy alumna, their business and spearheading the development of the Waterfront Streetcar.
Phil received a pharmacy degree from the University of Washington in 1964 and by 1975, was the Head of Pharmacy for Group Health. That same year he unveiled the Co-OPRx computerized prescription system that provided doctors and pharmacists instant access to patient drug histories, potential allergies and adverse reactions. The Co-CORx project sparked his interest in innovation, which became the cornerstone of his career. He went on to help Group Health expand into Bellevue and rose to a top leadership position with Group Health and Kaiser Operations in the Northwest.
Virginia graduated from the School of Pharmacy in 1943 and while in school, she was a member of the Totem Club and Chi Omega Sorority. Virginia was one of the first women pharmacists to work in a hospital setting, which was remarkable in the 1940s. During her career, she conducted research on motion sickness medication for soldiers in World War II, studied breast cancer at the University of Rochester Medical School and was the first pharmacist at the Monadnock Hospital. She spent 17 years as a relief pharmacist and traveled the world after opening her travel company.
George H. Bartell Jr. started his career in the family business stocking shelves and went on to grow Bartell Drugs into the oldest family-owned drugstore chain in the nation. After becoming the President of Bartell Drugs in 1939, George served in World War II and came back to a world changed. Among these changes were new Pharmacist licensing laws in Washington State that required George to become licensed. After joining the School of Pharmacy, he earned his Pharmacy Degree (and became licensed) in just three years. George was an avid Husky Football fan and a supporter of local organizations such as the Rainier Club, Seattle Golf and Country Club, the Scottish Rite Temple and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Hall joined the faculty of the School of Pharmacy in 1952, after spending a few years at the Eli Lilly and Co. as a Pharmaceutical Chemist. After returning to the UW, he soon set himself apart from his peers by developing innovative approaches to teaching, particularly in dispensing pharmacy. While at UW Hall developed one of the first models for an externship program, allowing senior pharmacy students to gain theoretical and practical experience in a pharmacy setting for academic credit. Being too ahead of his time, this for credit externship program did not became a formal requirement in the School of Pharmacy’s curriculum until the 1990’s, thanks in large part to Dr. Hall’s vision. Dr. Hall was also awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1980 to celebrate the impact of his career on the profession of Pharmacy.