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Eichinger Receives Vaccine Renaissance Scholarship Katherine Eichinger, a graduate student in the lab of PittPharmacy Assistant Professor Kerry Empey, PharmD, PhD was recently selected as a Vaccine Renaissance Scholarship recipient.
PittPharmacy Graduate Students Receive Grants

Katherine Eichinger, MS, PharmD (photo left) was recently selected to receive a NIH Loan Repayment (LRP) award for Pediatric Research through the National I

PharmD Student Casal Awarded STARS Grant

 Morgan Casal (Class of 2019) was awarded the Kidney STARS (Students and Residents) travel grant from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) to attend ASN Kidney Week in San Diego,…

Poloyac and McDermott Receive NIH Grant for New Drug Discovery in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

 PittPharmacy faculty members Samuel M. Poloyac, PharmD, PhD and Lee A.

Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships

PhD candidate Katherine Eichinger, MS, PharmD was recently selected as a Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Post-Doctoral Fellow through the Institute f

ACCP Student Award Winner PittPharmacy's Zhang

Hongfei Zhang, MS was selected as a Student Award Winner by the 2018 Annual Meeting Committee of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) based on her research work titled "Altered…

Tao Long Serves as ISEF Grand Award Judge

 PittPharmacy graduate student, Tao Long, was selected to serve as the grand award judge in the category of translational medical sciences of the Intel International Science and Engineering…

PittPharmacy Members Receive Poster Presentation Honors   Several PittPharmacy students recently received awards for their poster presentations. The annual University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine Research Day was held April 30 and May 1,…
Prokopienko Receives Kidney STARS Program Award Alexander J. Prokopienko PharmD, has received an American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney STARS Program award.
PittPharmacy to Lead New Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence

The University of Pittsburgh and Thermo Fisher Scientific have established a new Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence in the School of Pharmacy that aims to discover and validate medication…

Feturi Published in Frontiers in Surgery

A manuscript from PittPharmacy graduate student Firuz Feturi titiled  "Mycophenolic acid for topical immunosuppression in vascularized composite allotransplantation: optimizing formulation…

Venkataramanan Presents at International Cancer Research Meeting
Raman Venkataramanan, PhD, FACCP, FAAPS recently gave a presentation at the Sri Shankara Hospital and Research Center in Bangalore India. His presentation “Clinical Pharmacology Aids in the Care…
For the Second Year, Poloyac Chairs AACP Research and Graduate Committee.

 Samuel M. Poloyac, PharmD, PhD is serving a relatively unprecedented second year as Chair of the Research and Graduate Affairs Committee (RGAC) of the American Association of Colleges of…

Thanukrishnan Wins ACCP Award Recognition

Harisudhan Thanufrishnan, a PittPharmacy graduate student working in the lab of Professor Raman Venkataramanan, was recognized as one of the student abstract award winners at the 2017 American…

Prokopienko Receives 2017 NIH LRP Award for Kidney Disease Research

Alexander J. Prokopienko, PharmD, is the recipient of a 2017 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive…