Dziuba Awarded Top Pharmacy Quality Alliance Scholar

 New Alumna Gabrielle Dziuba, PharmD '18 was awarded 1st place as the Top Scholar Award at the 2018 Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) Annual Conference hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, May…

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,…

PittPharmacy's Meyer Appointed National President of Rho Chi Society

Susan M. Meyer, PhD, associate dean for education, was installed as national president of The Rho Chi Society on March 18, 2018, at the Society's annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Meyer will…

Prokopienko Receives Kidney STARS Program Award Alexander J. Prokopienko PharmD, has received an American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney STARS Program award.

PittPharmacy Achieves Merit Awards from APhA   PittPharmacy's research from the Community Leadership, Innovation, and Practice (CLIP) Center was recognized at the 2018 Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Pharmacists…

McGivney Active with AACP Initiative and ACC Conferences Associate Dean for Community Partnerships Melissa A. Somma McGivney, PharmD, FCCP, FAPhA  has been appointed by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) to the American…

Collaboration Between Pitt Schools Receives Grant PittPhamarcy Alumna Ashley Firm, PharmD '14  from the Physician Assistant Studies Program, PittPharmacy faculty, Luke Berenbrok, PharmD '13, MS and Lorin Grieve, PharmD '14 were awarded an…

Feturi Receives First Place in 2018 Best Poster Medical Device Category

Firuz Gamal Feturi, BS and PhD candidate was awarded first place for her poster presentation in the medical device category during the McGowan Research Retreat March 2018. Feturi's abstract was…

Alumna Johnson Selected Walmart Scholars Program

Recent PharmD graduate and new alumna Heather Johnson '18 was selected for the Walmart Scholars Program.  Associate Professor Karen Pater, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, and Johnson were one of 85…

PittPharmacy Faculty Benedict and Team Honored for Outstanding Work in National Pharmacy Journal Associate Professor Neal Benedict and co-authors have been awarded the 2018 Rufus A. Lyman Award by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

Cultural Program of the Year Awarded to PittPharmacy SNPhA PittPharmacy's Student National Pharmaceutical Association, (SNPhA), won the University of Pittsburgh Blue Stars Red Carpet Cultural Program of the Year Award for their Black History Cultural…

APhA-ASP Chapter Wins the University of Pittsburgh Outstanding Program of the Year 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…

Jieni Xu Presents Anticancer Therapy Project at ACS Meeting

PittPharmacy PhD candidate Jieni Xu  gave a podium presentation on her project "Pendent HDAC inhibitor SAHA derivatized polymer as a novel prodrug micellar carrier for…