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 their fetuses handle amphetamines and other illicit drugs; methadone, a drug abuse treatment medication; and bupropion, an antidepressant. Read more…