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Monday, August 8, 2019
PittPharmacy Faculty Members Published and Editors

Amy Donihi, Associate Professor of Pharmacy & Therapeutics (photo left) is an author on a State of the Art Review on Diabetic Ketoacidosis and…

Thursday, August 8, 2019
PittPharmacy Continues Student Spaceflight Experiments Program

PittPharmacy's Assistant Professor Kerry Empey, PharmD, PhD, Lead I

Wednesday, July 7, 2019
Berenbrok and Mormer Recipients of Innovation in Education Award

Update: July 31, 2019: Additional Funding for CHAMP

Tuesday, July 7, 2019
Huryn Initiates Women in Science Empowerment

PittPharmacy Professor Donna M. Huryn, PhD founded and co-organized the first annual 2019 Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry Conference held on Friday,…

Thursday, July 7, 2019
McGivney Receives Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association Grant

Melissa McGivney PharmD, FCCP, FAPhA received a grant from Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association for her research titled "State Public Health Actions to…

Monday, July 7, 2019
Johnston's Research on Liver Cancer Receives NIH Grant

PittPharmacy Associate Professor Paul Johnston received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research "qHTS of Patient Derived HCC Models…

Tuesday, July 7, 2019
Kane-Gill Honored with WVU Commitment to Pharmacy Excellence Award

The 2019 Inaugural Year Commitment to Pharmacy Excellence Award was given to PittPharmacy Professor Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP by the West…

Tuesday, July 7, 2019
PittPharmacy Students in the Winners Circle Again!

University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy is one of the two recipients of the National Award of the 2019 National Consumers League (NCL) Script Your Future…

Monday, June 6, 2019
Meyer Receives Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award

Congratulations to PittPharmacy’s Susan M. Meyer, PhD, winner of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished…

Friday, June 6, 2019
Register Now! NACDSTest2Learn™ Community-based Pharmacogenomics Certificate & Train-the-Trainer (TTT) Program

PittPharmacy 's Philip Empey, PharmD, PhD, Director, Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence, Associate Director, Institute for Personalized Medicine and Assistant Professor James M. Stevenson,…

Wednesday, June 6, 2019
Coons Receives Grant from Precision Medicine Pilot Award Program

PittPharmacy Associate Professor Jim Coons, PharmD, FCCP, BCCP was awarded a grant from the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Precision Medicine for his…

Thursday, June 6, 2019
Skledar Appointed Co-Chair PQA-AAC Committee

Professor Sue Skledar, RPh, MPH, FASHP, Director of Experiential Learning and Continuing Professional Development, has been appointed to serve as co-chair for…

Tuesday, May 5, 2019
Yang Researching Novel Drug Target for Heart Development and Disease

PittPharmacy Assistant Professor Da Yang, MD, PhD will collaborate with Lei Yang, Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine in a NIH funded…

Wednesday, May 5, 2019
Kane-Gill Member of KDIGO Steering Committee

Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, participated in the steering committee, co-leading the breakout group on nephrotoxins, for the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (…

Tuesday, April 4, 2019
Allergy Medicine Repurposed for Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Vinayak Sant

Through The Stanley Medical Research Institute, Pitt Department of Psychiatry faculty member, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, MD, PhD and his team of co-…