Community Pharmacy Foundation Grant Awarded to Renner

Hannah Renner, PharmD, received a grant from the Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF), a national non-profit organization that provides funding for studies directly associated with community…

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…

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…

Pitt Pharmacy Alumnus, Gordon J. Vanscoy, PharmD, MBA, CACP, Receives University’s Highest Award

Distinguished Alumni Fellow Gordon Vanscoy with Chancellor Patrick Gallagher  Gordon Vanscoy currently serves as the associate dean for business innovation and an associate professor of…

Ma Receives NIH Grant For Liver Toxicity Research

Associate Professor Xiaochao Ma, PhD received a grant from the NIH titled "Pharmacoenhancers for antiretroviral therapy: safety and future development” The objectives of this application are to…

Smithburger Honored with ACCP Fellowship and Research Award

Pamela L. Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCP was awarded the 2017 American College of Clinical Pharmacy Critical Care Practice Research Network's Research Award at the American College of…

Coons Recognized ACCP Fellow

 Pitt Pharmacy faculty member and alumnus James C.

Kane-Gill Leads Guideline Practices for Critically Ill

Associate Professor Sandra L. Kane-Gill , PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP  led a task force of patient safety experts to complete the first safe medication use clinical practice guidelines for…

PittPharmacy Leads the Way with PPA Awards

 The Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA) presented members of the Pitt Pharmacy faculty and alumni with several awards during the PPA’s 2017 Annual Conference on September 23, 2017 in…

PittPharmacy Faculty Member Ensor Receives Research Network Award

Christopher R. Ensor, PharmD, BCPS  has been awarded the 2017 American College of Clinical Pharmacy Immunology and Transplantation Practice and Research Network Service Award.  The…

Fernandez Receives NCI Grant for Pediatric Leukemia Research

The Fernandez lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy is working to prevent leukemia relapse caused by an immune response to asparginase treatment in children. The National Cancer…

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…

Shilpa Sant Recognized 2017 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

PittPharmacy Assistant Professor Shilpa Sant, PhD was named one of the eleven 2017 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE).

Skledar to Serve on American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Executive Committee

Professor Susan J.

Xie Presents at Elite Conferences

Professor Wen Xie, MD, PhD  was an invited speaker at two Gordon Research Conferences. In early July, Xie spoke at a Gordon Conference on Drug Metabolism at the Holderness School in…