Jonas Salk Fellowship Recipient Chelsea Henderson: JHF Health Care Participant On September 22, 2014 the Jewish Health Care Foundation welcomed 42 multidisciplinary graduate students who will deploy systems thinking t

PittPharmacy Students Win ACCP Poster Competition Update October 15, 2014: Our students won the best poster at ACCP! Class of 2015 students Nick Farina, Kevin Ordons, Rachel Filiaggi, Marissa Csovelak and Melissa Shook are finalists…

PittPharmacy Faculty Sean Xie Awarded NIH Grant Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie, EMBA, PhD, was awarded a $5.4 million NIH center grant to establish a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Center of Excellence for Computational Chemogenomics Drug Abuse…

PittPharmacy Alumna Lichvar ACCP Travel Awardee Alicia Lichvar, PharmD '13  was awarded the 2014 American College of Clinical Pharmacy GI/Liver/Nutrition PRN Travel Award.

APhA President Osterhaus Meets Students On September 19,2014 Matthew Osterhaus, President of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) visited PittPharmacy.

Kane-Gill ACCP Platform Presentation Finalist Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP  is a co-investigator on the study "The impact of a clinical pharmacist managed acid suppression program on inappropriate therapy in general ward…

Wen Xie Invited Speaker Tamburro Liver Symposium Wen Xie, MD, PhD was an invited speaker at the Tamburro Liver Symposium held in Louisville, Kentucky, September 11-12, 2014. The Tamburro Liver Symposium, sponsored by the National Institute of…

Statewide OD Prevention Website Launched Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy has received funding from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to develop an overdose…

Pringle Study: Community Pharmacist Intervention Boosts Drug Adherence, Reduces Health Costs  According to a new study, “The Pennsylvania Project: Pharmacist Intervention Improved Medication Adherence And Reduced Health Care Costs” led by PittPharmacy faculty member Janice L. Pringle,…

Alshogran Selected ASN Kidney STARS Program PittPharmacy PhD Candidate Osama Alshogran has been selected to participate in the STARS program at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2014 Annual Meeting, November 13-16 in…

Donihi ACCP PRN Chair-Elect PittPharmacy faculty member Amy Donihi, PharmD, BCPS was elected chair-elect of the ACCP Endocrine & Metabolism Practice and Research Network for the 2014-2015 term. She will then serve as…

Pater Elected AACP Special Interest Group Leader Karen Steinmetz Pater, PharmD, BCPS, CDE was recently elected as Chair Elect for the AACP Self-Care and Non-Prescription Medicines Special Interest Group.  As chair elect this year,…

Johnston Awarded NIH Grant to Investigate Melanoma Therapies PittPharmacy faculty member Paul A. Johnston, PhD was awarded a grant funded by NIH under the UPCI's SPORE in Melanoma and Skin Cancer. The project title is Identifying Synergy between APE1 DNA…

Huryn Editor for ACS Publication PittPharmacy faculty member Donna Huryn, PhD was appointed Associated Editor for ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters publishes brief communications on experimental…

Wen Xie Awarded Grant to Study Obesity and Diabetes Treatment Wen Xie, MD, PhD was awarded a new R01 grant for The Hepatic Function of Cholesterol Sulfotrasferase 2B1b (SULT2B1b)in Energy Metabolism. The cholesterol sulfotransferase SULT2B1b is a…