Jiyuan "Jane" Yang, Ph.D., Research Professor at the Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery (CCCD) and a vital part of Jindrich Kopecek’s lab has received a 3-year DOD Breast Cancer Research Program grant totaling $1,509,750... Read More
Distinguished Professor Sung Wan Kim was a pillar of the University of Utah College of Pharmacy.... Read More
Marco Bortolato, MD PhD, is an associate professor at University of Utah Health who studies the underlying biology in impulse control through animal models and how it manifests in violent behavior.... Read More
Alice Olsen, CoP Alumna and Veterinary Pharmacist, loves her career because she can help her four-legged friends.... Read More
The University of Utah NIH funded Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has selected the collaborative... Read More
It’s the first of its kind here in Utah: Managing pain through a tablet — an electronic tablet.... Read More
John Saunders, Class of 2019 Alumnus and Pharmacotherapy Research Fellow, was awarded the... Read More
Dr. Reed Jensen, Pharmacist and Class of 1963 Alumnus, had an interesting path to pharmacy school. ... Read More
The study, 'The Effects of Increases in Patient Out-of-Pockets Costs for Insulin on Diabetes- Utilization and Outcomes in Patients with Prescription Drug Coverage'... Read More
It was about three years ago when Dan Liljenquist first started to piece together the idea of creating a first-of-its-kind drug company.... Read More
A trip to the pharmacy should be simple. Pick up your medications and be on your way, right. But what about your medication’s potential side effects or interactions with other drugs?... Read More
A pharmacy student has been named winner of Miss America 2020 after performing ... Read More
After 30 years with the Poison Control Center, Director Dr. Barbara Crouch has... Read More
Andrea VonMarkle arrived in Madison by helicopter ambulance 2 years ago, her life hanging in the balance.... Read More
A drug used to stop ongoing bleeding in severe trauma patients of all ages since the 1960s has never been clinically tested in children, according to doctors at Primary Children’s Hospital.... Read More
The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health awarded... Read More
Dr. Karen Wilcox is in the business of improving lives for individuals living with epilepsy.... Read More
The World Health Organization (WHO) today prequalified an Ebola vaccine for the first time, a critical step that will help... Read More
In 2005, the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) published the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice... Read More
Growing up, I was taught that if I can help someone, it is my responsibility to do so. I learned that example from my father, who is my hero... Read More
Melinda McDowell had used drugs since she was a teenager. But she didn't try methamphetamine until... Read More
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy APhA-ASP chapter won the OTC Medicine Safety AND Operation Immunization... Read More
Our PharmD students hosted multiple events for National Drug Takeback Day... Read More
The Salt Lake City Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Salt Lake City area... Read More
Monoclonal antibody therapy has offered treatment benefits. Nonetheless, a lack of efficacy still exists, partially because monovalent binding of antibodies to specific receptors fails to... Read More
Young Hong, Class of 2020 PharmD student, was asked to compete in the Center for Medical Innovation's Bench to Bedside competition... Read More
Karen M. Gunning, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP will serve as the 2020 BPS Chair. Dr. Gunning currently holds appointments as Associate Dean of Community Engagement... Read More
Researchers collected real-world cost and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) data in Alzheimer’s disease patients in Thailand, then investigated their associations with multiple... Read More
Our PharmD students are offering flu immunizations to University of Utah students... Read More
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The College of Pharmacy had the great honor of hosting Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan at the Rising Stars Symposium. Dr. Ramakrishnan is... Read More
Three U of U College of Pharmacy graduate students were presented with awards for... Read More
On Wednesday, September 18, 2019, new members of Phi Lambda Sigma and Rho Chi were inducted into... Read More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recognized the advent of contraception as one of the most important health technology advances in the twentieth century.... Read More
Social behaviors are essential for the survival and reproduction of social species. Many, if not most, neuropsychiatric disorders in humans...... Read More
The Class of 2023 White Coat Ceremony took place on Friday, August 30, 2019.... Read More
Four graduate students from the College of Pharmacy have been awarded the 2019-2020 Skaggs Graduate Research Fellowship.... Read More
Erin Fox, pharmacist advocate noted for efforts to address drug shortages and rising drug prices, has been awarded ASHP’s 2019 Zellmer Lecture Award.... Read More
The Department of Pharmacotherapy is pleased to announce that Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, PharmD, PhD, Daniel C. Malone, RPh, PhD, FAMCP, and Elizabeth Bald, PharmD will...... Read More
The first-ever human trial of a genital-chlamydia vaccine suggests that it is safe and effective.... Read More
Juan Diego High School students have spent their summer at the CoP working ... Read More
A new law that will change the way Utah pharmacists work began with a question that was part of a classroom assignment... Read More
University of Utah researchers Raziye Mohammadpour, Mostafa Yazdimamaghani, Darwin L. Cheney, Jolanta Jedrzkiewicz and Hamidreza Ghandehari were honored to have their article entitled 'Subchronic Toxicity... Read More
When it comes to pharmacy laws and regulations, you can have more influence than you might think. That's what Sara Whitt, a pharmacy student at College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, learned during a special legislative rotation.... Read More
Women have made undeniable strides toward workplace equality in recent years. But while they account for 56% of college students and 48% of entry-level positions, they still make up just 23% of the C-suite.... Read More
Few health-related products are as buzzed about—or as controversial—as cannabidiol, also known as CBD.... Read More
Independent black-owned pharmacies fill a void for African American patients looking for care that’s sensitive to their heritage, beliefs and values.... Read More
Class of 2021 student, Melanie Hunter, has been selected by ISPF to take part in their Student Exchange Program.... Read More
The PAL rotation was developed in 2013 for fourth-year PharmD students interested in developing knowledge and skills with respect to pharmacy legislative and regulatory issues in the state of Utah.... Read More
The University of Utah has earned a coveted position in the top 50 NIH-funded Institutions of 2019.... Read More
This year's alumni golf tournament took place on June 4, 2019 at Eaglewood Golf Course.... Read More
Students from JDCHS have joined the CoP for the summer to study pharmacy, chemistry, and science.... Read More
The MotherToBaby Utah Program, hosted by the Utah Department of Health in partnership with the U of U, celebrated 35 years of existence. ... Read More
Take a look at the CoP's 2018-2019 PharmD Yearbook here! ... Read More
The Class of 2019 graduated on May 10, 2019 at Kingsbury Hall.... Read More
The CoP Annual Senior Banquet took place on May 8, 2019.... Read More
This weekend, a group of our PharmD students and faculty members attended the Utah Pharmacy Association 2019 Annual Convention.... Read More
The University of Utah APhA Student chapter received the 2017-2018 APhA-ASP Operation Diabetes National Award at the 2019 APhA Annual meeting in Seattle.... Read More
Keith Arlotta and Phong Lu have been awarded the University of Utah's Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year.... Read More
Christine Nervig has become a P.E.O. Scholar, and has received a $15,000 award for the 2019-2020 academic year.... Read More
Katherine Redd Bowman has been awarded the 2019 Wolf Prize.... Read More
PharmD students from Dr. Laura Shane-McWhorter's Herbals Class presented their research today.... Read More
Read more about what the Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry has been up to lately.... Read More
CoP student Hillary Parkin won Best Poster by a Student Pharmacist at the 2019 AMCP Annual Meeting.... Read More
The team behind PreOv, a student startup developing fertility solutions for women, is comprised of studious, family-driven, career-oriented women. ... Read More
The PharmD Projects Poster Session took place on Friday, April 5, 2019.... Read More
Research conducted by the University of Utah College of Pharmacy was featured in KSL.... Read More
The 2019 APhA World Health 5K and Health Fair took place on Saturday, March 6, 2019.... Read More
U of U CoP graduate students Erica Vander Mause and Julian Tu received AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowships for the 2019-20 academic year.... Read More
Research conducted by the University of Utah College of Pharmacy was featured in Medical News Today.... Read More
Research conducted at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy was featured in the Salt Lake Tribune.... Read More
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry hosted their annual Hall Party today.... Read More
Distinguished Professor Jindřich Henry Kopeček was named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for 2018.... Read More
The U of U APhA-ASP Chapter won the 2017-2018 APhA-ASP Operation Diabetes National Award at this week's APhA Annual Meeting. ... Read More
Tosifa Memon is the Molecular Pharmacology Highlighted Trainee Author for the April 2019 issue.... Read More
CoP fraternity Kappa Psi Epsilon Chi hosted a book drive in Feburary of 2019.... Read More
Maliheh Free Clinic is reversing the cycle of poverty and suffering created by poor health, by providing free quality medical care to low income and uninsured Utah families ... Read More
The 11th Annual College of Pharmacy Gala and Charity Auction took place on Saturday, March 2, 2019.... Read More
Dr. Mingnan Chen and his research group received an R01 grant From The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.... Read More
This year's Pharmacy Day on Capitol Hill took place on Thursday, February 28, 2019.... Read More
CoP fraternity Kappa Psi Epsilon Chi hosted a food drive in November of 2018. ... Read More
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy was recognized as a Leading Pharmacy School of 2019.... Read More
The open house took place on February 25, 2019.... Read More
Mary Kuzel is a clinical pharmacist at University of Utah Health's Greenwood Health Center in Midvale, Utah. ... Read More
Our Annual Preceptor Meet and Greet took place on February 7, 2019.... Read More
Third-year PharmD student, Jonny Sandoval, won the 2019 APhA Patient Counseling Competition.... Read More
Dr. Barbara Crouch was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee.... Read More
“Older adults are taking an awful lot of pills these days," says a professor of medicine and pharmacy. Getting them to stop taking unnecessary ones is harder than one might think. ... Read More
The 2018 Weaver Award recipient is Ronny L. Cutshall.... Read More
Check out what our alumni have been up to this year.... Read More
The CoP welcomes another year of exploration, education, and innovation. ... Read More
Donovan Smith graduated from the College of Pharmacy in 1995.... Read More
The Pharmacy Alumni Board volunteered at the Utah Food Bank.... Read More
Dr. Linda Tyler authored an article in ASHP's "Letters from Women in Pharmacy" publication.... Read More
Dr. Harold 'Hal' Wolf was the Dean of the College of Pharmacy from 1976 to 1989. ... Read More
Distinguished Professor Dr. You Han Bae has been identified as one of 161 top talents in the field of Pharmacology and Toxicology... Read More
Distinguished Professor Dr. David Grainger Receives David Eccles School of Business' Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Leadership in Ethics Education Award.... Read More
Our annual Pharmsgiving Potluck took place on November 15, 2018. ... Read More
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Dr. Karen Wilcox and her team at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology were featured on ABC4 for their research on cannabidiol (CBD oil) and its effect on epilepsy treatment. ... Read More
The College of Pharmacy participated in the Ragnar Sunset Series 2018 trail race.... Read More
The 2018 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy took place from October 20 to October 23 in Seattle, WA.... Read More
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The first annual Vampire Cup Blood Drive took place on October 29, 2018.... Read More
Cole Sloan is a U of U College of Pharmacy graduate who has a unique career as a pharmacist in emergency medicine.... Read More
The Health Sciences Scholarship Banquet took place on October 16, 2018.... Read More
The Health Sciences Scholarship Banquet took place on October 16, 2018.... Read More
Our students traveled to Blue Mountain Hospital located in Blanding, Utah for their Rural Outreach Trip.... Read More
A research collaboration agreement between SCM Lifescience and CSTEC@Utah took place on October 10, 2018.... Read More
Recently, we visited the brand new Maliheh Free Clinic during a student-run clinic session.... Read More
Benjamin Davies is a recent graduate from the College of Pharmacy, who works as a Toxicology Fellow at the Utah Poison Control Center.... Read More
The PLS & Rho Chi Induction Ceremony took place on September 19, 2018.... Read More
Gregory Skedros graduated from the University of Utah College of Pharmacy in 1950. ... Read More
Kappa Psi Epsilon Chi hosted a food drive at Smiths... Read More
The Maliheh Free Clinic ribbon cutting ceremony took place on Wednesday, September 2018.... Read More
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy Class of 2022 White Coat Ceremony took place on Friday, September 7, 2018.... Read More
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy successfully competed in the 18th Annual Student Pharmacist Pharmacy & Therapeutics Competition at the Annual AMCP meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts on April 23-26, 2018.... Read More
Dr. Jaclyn Winter was selected as a Fellow for Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.... Read More
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Alumni and P1 bowling night took place on August 21, 2018.... Read More
Distinguished Professor You Han Bae's manuscript "Oral Delivery of Nanoparticles" embargoed before publication was accepted.... Read More
Pouya Hadipour of Ghandehari lab has been awarded the Kuramoto Award for the 2018-2019 Academic year. ... Read More
Phong Lu of Lim Lab has been awarded a Skaggs Fellowship Award for the 2018-2019 Academic year.... Read More
Chaz Washington is a University of Utah Class of 2012 Alumnus. Check out his CoP Story here!... Read More
Dr. Laura Shane-McWhorter was interviewed by Diabetes In Control publication at The 27th Annual AACE Scientific & Clinical Congress in Boston, MA. Dr. Laura Shane-McWhorter interviewed by Diabetes In Control publication... Read More
University of Utah AAPS Student Chapter Featured in AAPC Magazine.... Read More
Erica VanderMause of Lim Lab was Awarded The Ralph & Clara Rutledge Memorial Scholarship.... Read More
UIT Leadership Spotlight: Tom Cheatham, Ph.D., Director of the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC)... Read More
The 2018 Frontier Scientists Workshop took place on June 18-19.... Read More
U Health is Granted $5 Million to Fund Tools that Encourage Doctors and Patients to Make Medical Decisions Together.... Read More
This year's Alumni Golf Tournament took place on June 5, 2018.... Read More
Pharmacology and Toxicology's Reilly Lab's research was selected to be featured on the cover of Chemical Research Toxicology.... Read More
Maliheh Free Clinic receives College of Pharmacy's 2018 Gala donation. ... Read More
The College of Pharmacy hosted a dinner for our preceptors on May 22, 2018. ... Read More
The College of Pharmacy participated in the 2018 Ragnar Relay Trail Race.... Read More
Jindrich Kopecek has been awarded funding from Hunstman Cancer Institute's Experimental Therapeutics Program.... Read More
Peng Zhao was selected as the recipient of the Paul Shurtleff Hatch and Heidi Hatch Ford Scholar Award.... Read More
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy Class of 2018 graduated on May 4, 2018.... Read More
Eveline Bruenger, Honorary alumnus of the College of Pharmacy, passed away on April 23, 2018.... Read More
The Class of 2018 Senior Banquet took place on Monday, April 30.... Read More
View the 2017-2018 USPA Student Yearbook.... Read More
Congratulations to Jiyuan 'Jane' Yang, Libin Zhang, Jindřich Kopeček, and Yixin Fang for their authorship on the research paper 'A new construct of antibody-drug conjugates for treatment of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas'.... Read More
Graduate student Jessica McCombs wins the 2018 Jeffrey L. Fox Award.... Read More
College of Pharmacy hosts a successful Hall Party and research poster session.... Read More
The 2018 Run For Your Life 5k & Community/Diabetes Health Fair took place on April 14, 2018.... Read More
University of Utah College of Pharmacy student Young Hong has recently been awarded the Bench to Bedside competition Grand Prize of $50,000.... Read More
Three talented graduate students from the University of Utah College of Pharmacy have received fellowships and/or scholarships for 2018-2019. ... Read More
Zachary Barber has been granted the 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Researcher Award. Barber attended the award luncheon earlier this week alongside Dr. Darrell Davis and Dr. Hamid Ghandehari of the College of Pharmacy.... Read More
Anne Gibson, a fourth year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Program, Receives Renewal of AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.... Read More
Dr. Holly Gurgle was recognized as a 2018 Immunization Champion at the 2018 APhA meeting in Nashville, TN.... Read More
College of Pharmacy graduate student Wilson Pace helped draft passing legislation to increase Utah women's access to contraceptives. ... Read More
Dr. David Young of Pharmacotherapy was the recipient of the 2018 ‘Love To Breathe’ award.... Read More
Dr. Randall Peterson spoke at Roseman University's 4th Annual Research Symposium.... Read More
The 10th annual University of Utah College of Pharmacy was held on March 10, 2018 at the University Guest House Conference Center.... Read More
Legislators approved the supplemental appropriations request for the Utah Poison Control Center... Read More
Congratulations to You Han Bae for being appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry... Read More
Managing Chronic Pain during the Opioid Crisis: Add a Pharmacist to the Care Team... Read More
Professor Jindrich Kopecek has been named the winner of the T. & A. Higuchi Memorial Lectureship Award 2018... Read More
Utah Poison Control Center Receives National Award... Read More
APhA Students Receive Regional Awards... Read More
Dr. You Han Bae, Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry Receives 4-year NIH R01 Research Grant for Oral Gene Delivery System... Read More
Dr. Mei Koh, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, awarded new R01 grant totaling $1.7M over 5 years for research into new strategies to treat kidney cancer. ... Read More
P2 Students Present Ghana Research at GlobalU Expo... Read More
James Augustus McCloskey, Jr, died August 30, 2017... Read More
Dean Randy Peterson's work with zebrafish and opioid addictions are front page news across the country... Read More
Holly Gurgle elected as Chair-Elect for ACCP Education and Training PRN.... Read More
Daniel M. Witt, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS has been appointed as Department Chair in the Department of Pharmacotherapy, effective August 1, 2017. ... Read More
Recipients announced for the Skaggs Research Fellowship and Roy Kuramoto Award... Read More
Protein Crystals Grown in Microgravity Could Yield Antidotes for Nerve Agents ... Read More
Dr. Carol S. Lim selected as one of the top THREE "Selected Highly Authors" of Molecular Pharmaceutics... Read More
Dr. Ghandehari was awarded a NIH STTR Phase II grant in collaboration with a local company, TheraTarget, Inc. The project is "In-Situ Gelling Protein Polymer Intravascular Embolic Agent for Hepatic Carcinoma". Total costs of the grant are $1,401,869... Read More
A pilot grant from the Huntsman Cancer Institute's Upper AeroDigestive Tract Cancers Disease Oriented Research awarded Dr. Jeremiah Alt, Dr. Hamid Ghandehari, and Dr. Abigail Pulsipher... Read More
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Selected to Join National Cancer Institute’s Systems Biology Consortium... Read More
Graduate student Sun Jin Kim receives department 2017 Jeffrey L. Fox Award. ... Read More
Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Peng Zhao has been granted a 2017-2018 University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowship.... Read More
Dr. Carol Lim has received a HCI Cell Response and Regulation (CRR) grant for $30,000. ... Read More
Jindrich Kopecek Received HCI Experimental Therapeutics Program Grant... Read More
Dr. Eric Schmidt will be awarded the 2017 AACP Paul R. Dawson Award on July 17th at the AACP Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN. ... Read More
Dr. Carol Lim was awarded the 2017 College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year ... Read More
Dr. Kristen Keefe is awarded the 2017 University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award ... Read More
Dr. Margo Haygood, Medicinal Chemistry, joined by an international team of scientists, discover an elusive giant shipworm in the Philippines. ... Read More
Ph.D Candidate, Erica Larson Receives 2017 Wolf Prize at Convocation ... Read More
Dr. Dave Young was recently invited to give a grand rounds talk at the Cystic Fibrosis Center in London at the Royal Brompton Hospital.... Read More
U College of Pharmacy’s Program Awarded $19.5M Contract Renewal To Identify Compounds for Treating Therapy-Resistant Epilepsy... Read More
Dr. Laura Shane-McWhorter received the Outstanding Educator Award of Health Science Professional Students.... Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Shane-McWhorter for receiving the Outstanding Educator Award of Health Science Professional Students! She was also included in the Interprofessional Education Team Award! The College is honored to have such a dedicated and inspiring educator!... Read More
Dr. Amy Barrios, PhD has been selected as a 2016 University of Utah Presidential Scholar ... Read More
Sung Wan Kim to receive the University of Utah Distinguished Chemistry Alumni Award in 2016! As a former Ph.D. student of Henry Eyring at Utah, faculty Sung Wan Kim is recently selected to received the Chemistry Alumni Award at a ceremony in April, 2016.... Read More
The College of Pharmacy's NIH Funding ranking has moved up to #5 in 2015. This is the 41st consecutive year ranking among the top ten colleges of pharmacy.... Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Eric W. Schmidt, PhD who was awarded the 2016 University of Utah Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Research Award... Read More
Grainger's Fulbright Award will support his 4-month visiting faculty position to teach and perform research at the School of Pharmacy, Centre for Bioengineering and Nanomedicine, and Centre for Innovation at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946, the program seeks to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.... Read More
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) recently published Dr. Eric Schmidt's paper titled "Metabolic Model for Diversity-Generating Biosynthesis" and can be viewed on their website... Read More
Pharmacy and the continuum of lethal injection.... Read More
Congratulations to Prof. Karen Gunning, BCACP, FCCP, Pharm.D., BCPS, has been selected to receive the 2016 University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award.... Read More
Dr. Carol Lim was provided the official State notice that she is now Full Professor. Please join the College in congratulating her on this paramount academic achievement. ... Read More
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Congratulations to Dr. Linda Tyler, Administrative Director of Pharmacy Services in UUHC and Clinical Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Associate Dean for Pharmacy Practice in the College of Pharmacy on being appointed to serve on the editorial advisory board for the American Journal of Health-System Pharma... Read More
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Dr. Ick Chan Kwon is currently a tenured principal research scientist at the Biomedical Research Institute at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the College of Engineering at Seoul National University in 1982 and 1984, respectively.... Read More
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We are very excited to announce that Amy Barrios has been selected as a 2015 Teva Scholar! The Teva Pharmaceuticals Scholars program is administered by the ACS Office of Research Grants. The program is a philanthropic grant program ... Read More
Dr. Carol Lim was provided the official State notice that she is now Full Professor. Please join the College in congratulating her on this paramount academic achievement. ... Read More
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How might your neighborhood pharmacy be different five or ten years from now? Dr. Mike Feehan, visiting professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah talks about how one day, you may be more likely to visit your local pharmacist for routine acute care than you would your doctor.... Read More
College of Pharmacy participates in study: Blood-thinning bridge therapy may be harmful for a select group of patients. ... Read More
Kyle Turner has been published on the Primary Care Progress website. The progress note describes the Utah PCP chapter and his role as president. ... Read More
Joshua Scott Conarton has been selected for the 2015 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Researcher in the College of Pharmacy Award! He, along with his faculty mentor Hamid Ghandehari, will be honored at the Undergraduate Research Awards Luncheon on March 31, 2015 @ 12:00PM.... Read More
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Dave Grainger (Eccles Presidential Chair of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry was recently awarded two named lectures: 1) the “Dr. K.T. Dholakia” oration, “Challenges in translating antimicrobial technologies to orthopedic implants”, as part of the Bombay ... Read More
Eric Schmidt, Ph.D., professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Utah, searches marine organisms for novel compounds that could be transformed into therapeutics, such as medicines to combat pain or cancer.... Read More
Tom Cheatham had a high profile paper come out yesterday in Nature Communications... Read More
University Information Technology (UIT) is pleased to announce that after a competitive search, Professor Thomas E. Cheatham III has been named director of the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC), which provides large-scale computer and networking resources to facilitate advances in academic disciplines that require computing and network capabilities beyond those existing in individual colleges, departments, and groups.... Read More
Nathaniel Cordova, a Hispanic student in the Class of 2018 at the College of Pharmacy, began researching with Dr. Mario Alburges, Diversity Committee Chair and Research Associate Professor from the Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, three years ago. They study the role of neuropeptides in mediating the effects of drug of abuse on rat CNS, and together with a team of other researchers, they published a paper on, “Responses of the Rat Basal Ganglia Neurotensin Systems to Low Doses of Methamphetamine.” Conference coordinators awarded Nathaniel with an all-expenses paid scholarship to present the paper at this year’s SACNAS Conference (Society for the Advancement of Chicos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) in Los Angeles.... Read More
PKA helps regulate basic cellular functions, leads to disease when mutated... Read More
Two of our faculty, You Han Bae and Sung Wan Kim were recognized as the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2014 by Science Watch.... Read More
University of Utah, College of Pharmacy, L.S. Skaggs Pharmacy Institute is hosting the Community Pharmacy-Based Point-of Care Testing certificate & Train the Trainer program, NACDS’ two-day training opportunity for pharmacists.... Read More
Read the article from Interim Dean Kristen A. Keefe in the Fall 2014 Grad News. Click here to read the article... Read More
Congratulations to Geoff Miller who won best poster award at the UU Biosciences Symposium on September 23, 2014... Read More
Brandon Jennings (Associate Professor) in the Department of Pharmacotherapy was just named 2014 Pharmacist of the Year by the Utah Society of Health System Pharmacists.... Read More
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Professor You Han Bae is a Controlled Release Society College of Fellows 2014 awardee. His outstanding contributions to the field including thermosensitive polymers and hydrogels, material design for improving cellular drug delivery and to CRS with his service and leadership are many. The selection committee is very pleased to honor Professor You Han Bae with this most prestigious CRS award – induction into the CRS College of Fellows. The award will be presented at the CRS annual meeting in July.... Read More
Thomson Reuters has generated a new list of Highly Cited Researchers in the sciences and social sciences to update and complement a previously published list that was presented on the website ISIHighlyCited.com. ... Read More
I am deeply saddened to inform you that my close friend and Colleague Gary S. Yost passed away this morning. Professor Gary Yost joined the faculty of the College in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1987. Throughout his career Gary maintained an active research group and was a mentor to many generations of students, postdocs and visiting scholars. Gary was always an an avid support of the College and ardent Ute fan. The family has asked me to pass along their thanks to the College for its support of Gary over the years and lifelong friendship. He will truly be missed. Information about services will be forthcoming. Our Best Wishes Go out to Barb and all of Gary's family.... Read More
The College of Pharmacy maintains a #3 ranking in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).... Read More
The latest post to Ruth Watkins' Academic Insider blog features the six Presidential Scholars.... Read More
Please join us in congratulating Carrie McAdam-Marx, Brandon Jennings, Mukul Singhal, and Karen Gunning on the publication of the research in JMCP.... Read More
LANDOVER, MD, May 29, 2014 – The Epilepsy Foundation announced today that H. Steven White, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology and principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Anticonvulsant Drug Development Program at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Epilepsy Foundation’s Lifetime Accelerator Award, in recognition of his commitment and pioneering contributions to the field of epilepsy and seizures. Dr. White will be honored at the 4th Biennial Epilepsy Pipeline Conference 2014, being held June 5-7, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.... Read More
Dean Chris M. Ireland Receives the 2014 Paul J. Scheuer Award, the most prestigious award in the field of Marine Natural Products Research.... Read More
The University of Utah Academy of Health Science Educators membership committee has selected Dr. Don Blumenthal to be a Fellow of the Academy.... Read More