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QIT Health Innovators Fellowship Two Time Winners

For the second year in a row PittPharmacy faculty member Janice L. Pringle, PhD mentored the winning team for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation QIT Health Innovators Fellowship. The team …

PittPharmacy Williams Selected Walmart Scholar

Recent PittPharmacy graduate Kiersten Williams PharmD '15  and faculty mentor Karen Pater, PharmD, BCPS, CDE were selected as recipients for the 2015 Walmart Scholars Program at the…

Smithburger Published in Critical Care Medicine

Research from faculty members Pamela Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS, and Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, has been accepted for publication in Critical Care Medicine.

NIH Grant Awarded to PittPharmacy Johnston

Paul A. Johnston, PhD is the primary investigator for his research High-Throughput Discovery of Chemical Probes for HIV-1 Nef Function funded by National Institutes of Health. Nef is an…

Kane-Gill Safety Editorial Board Member

Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP was invited by the Medical Director of the Patient Safety Authority, Dr.

ASPET Travel Award to PittPharmacy Grad Student Lu

Peipei Lu, a graduate student in the biochemical pharmacology program at the School of Pharmacy, was chosen to receive the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)…

2015 Walmart Scholar: PittPharmacy Student Myers

Michelle Myers (Class of 2016) and faculty mentor Olufunmilola K. Odukoya, BPharm, PhD  were selected as recipients for the 2015 Walmart Scholars Program at the American Association of…

Smithburger Presented with ICRE Research Award

Pamela L. Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS, was awarded the 2015 Institute for Clinical Research Education's Award for Outstanding Thesis in Clinical Research. Smithburger's thesis, Safe…

Vinayak Sant Awarded Grant to Investigate Iron Deficiency

Vinayak Sant, PhD received a grant by North American Hoganas to develop color masked iron powder. The objective is to evaluate feasibility of masking the black color of ultrafine iron powder using…

Wen Xie Invited Speaker ASPET Meeting

PittPharmacy faculty member Wen Xie, MD, PhD was an invited speaker at the Experimental Biology (EB)/American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Annual Meeting held in…

Shullo Invited ISHLT Chair and Presenter

PittPharmacy faculty member Michael A. Shullo, BS in Pharmacy '95, PharmD '97 is an invited chair for a research session entitled Kinetics, Coagulation, and Cardiology - Pharmacy of MCS and…

Kerry Empey Awarded NICHD Grant

PittPharmacy faculty member Kerry M. Empey, PharmD, PhD has received an R03 grant awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), NIH. The…

PittPharmacy Coley Appointed PPA Editorial Board

Kim C. Coley, BSPharm '87, PharmD, FCCP was appointed to the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association editorial board for the journal Pennsylvania Pharmacist. Coley will serve a two-year term…

McGivney to Present at APhA National Meeting

PittPharmacy faculty member Melissa A. Somma McGivney, PharmD '98, FCCP, FAPhA will present at the American Pharmacists Association Meeting in San Diego, Calif. on  March 29, 2015.