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Thursday, March 3, 2022
Pitt Pharmacy APhA-ASP Chapter Wins 2020-2021 Operation Heart Regional Award

Pitt Pharmacy’s APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) chapter has done it again! They were selected as a regional winner of Operation Heart for 2020-2021, marking the second year in a row…

Thursday, February 2, 2022
Seybert Elected Vice President of ACPE

Amy Seybert, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, CHSE, was elected Vice President of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) for 2022-2023. She held the position of Treasurer of ACPE from 2021-…

Wednesday, November 11, 2021
Juhl Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Juhl (right), receiving the award from Dean Donald Letendre of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
Friday, November 11, 2021
Beumer Receives Multiple Awards, Eligible for Nearly $10 Million Over Five Years from NCI Contract

Pitt Pharmacy professor Jan Beumer, PharmD, PhD, DABT, was awarded a new National Cancer Institute (NCI) contract for Preclinical Drug Development Research. Beumer is a faculty member in our…

Tuesday, November 11, 2021
Coons Receives ASHP Foundation Collaborative Care Grant

Pitt Pharmacy professor Jim Coons, PharmD ('01), FCCP, FACC, BCCP was recently awarded a Collaborative Care grant from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation and American…

Tuesday, October 10, 2021
Pitt Pharmacy Team Awarded HOPA Grant

A team made up of Pitt Pharmacy Research Scientist Katherine M.

Wednesday, October 10, 2021
Pitt Pharmacy Team Publishes Study in Lancet Oncology

A team of Pitt Pharmacy researchers, including graduate student and primary author Morgan Casal, PharmD (’19), and faculty members Jan Beumer, PharmD, PhD, and

Friday, September 9, 2021
Kane-Gill Awarded Two NIDDK Grants

Pitt Pharmacy professor Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, was recently awarded two grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Friday, September 9, 2021
Huryn Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Donna Huryn, PhD, and Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was chosen as the winner of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS-PHL) Lifetime…

Tuesday, August 8, 2021
Ma Awarded NIH Grant

Pitt Pharmacy Associate Professor Xiaochao Ma, PhD, was awarded an NIH R01 grant for his work titled, “The ABCG2 transporter in protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) disposition: From toxicity to therapy.”

Friday, June 6, 2021
Pitt Pharmacy and University Pharmacy Collaborate with Pharmacy Partners to Combat COVID

University Pharmacy and Pitt Pharmacy served as a Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Hub for CPESN USA in April, 2021.  Patrick Pugliese, (PHARM '11), Director of Pharmacy at University Pharmacy, worked with…

Friday, June 6, 2021
PharmD Students’ Research Published in Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy

Niti Patel and Britney Stottlemyer, graduates of the 2021 class led the publication of their research project entitled, "A Pharmacovigilance Study of Adverse Drug Reactions Reported for…

Tuesday, June 6, 2021
Pringle Co-Authors Article Published in New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst

In 2016, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services partnered with the Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy to provide technical…