Coons Receives United Therapeutics Grant PittPharmacy faculty member James C. Coons, PharmD, BCPS-AQ Cardiology was awarded a two-year investigator-sponsored grant from United Therapeutics for his proposal, Evaluation of Factors Influencing…

Coons Recognized ACCP Fellow

 Pitt Pharmacy faculty member and alumnus James C.

McCann Receives Gateway to Research Grant PharmD student Marc McCann, (Class of 2018), received a prestigious American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Gateway to Research Award to advance his ongoing vaccine research in the…

Nolin Elected Regent of American College of Clinical Pharmacology

Thomas D. Nolin, PharmD ’99, PhD ’03, was recently elected Regent of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. Nolin was one of four Regents elected in 2017 to serve five year terms. The…

Venkataramanan Presents at International Pediatric Congress PittPharmacy faculty member Raman Venkataramanan, PhD presented at the International Pediatric Transplant Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, May-June 2017.  The title of his presentation was

PittPharmacy's Shullo Co-Director of Advanced Heart Failure

Michael A. Shullo, PharmD was appointed Co-Director of Advanced Heart Failure within the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute. The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute is one of the world’s premier…

Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar 2017: Philip E. Empey

PittPharmacy Faculty Beumer Receives Prestigious NCI Contract

Jan H. Beumer, PharmD, PhD was awarded a National Cancer Institute (NCI) contract for Preclinical Drug Development Research.  The NCI contract is one of only five in the country.  The…

Stevenson Presents Pharmacogenomics Study for Annual Conference in China

PittPharmacy faculty James M. Stevenson, PharmD, MS, BCPP presented at the Chinese Society of Clinical Pharmacy Annual Conference in Xiamen, China, May 2017. His presentation, entitled Pharmacist-…

Carolyn Thorpe Appointed RSAP Associate Editor

Assistant Professor Carolyn T. Thorpe, PhD, MPH, has been appointed Associate Editor for Medication Use and Health Systems Policy for the peer-reviewed journal, Research in Social and…

Lingjue Li Attends BRAIN & BRAIN PET 2017 Conference

Lingjue Li, a graduate student in the Clinical Pharmaceutical Scientists Program, received an Early Career Investigator Travel Bursary from the BRAIN & BRAIN PET 2017 Conference held in Berlin…

Feturi Receives First Place in 2017 Best Poster Medical Device Category

Firuz Gamal Feturi, BS was awarded first place for her poster presentation in the medical device category during the McGowan Research Retreat March 2017. Firuz's abstract was titled Ultrasound…

PittPharmacy's Coley PPA Editorial Chair

Kim Coley, PharmD, FCCP, was appointed as Chair of the editorial board for the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association's Pennsylvania Pharmacist publication.

Professor Venkataramanan Recognized as AAiPS Distinguished Scientist

Raman Venkataramanan, PhD received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAiPS), at the annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, November…

PittPharmacy Student Badzik Accepted to PQA Rotation Marissa Badzik (Class of 2018) was accepted to a highly competitive Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) rotation with Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) in Washington, DC.  She will be…