Congrats to WSPA’s Award Winners

School of Pharmacy adjunct professor Andy Stergachis, fourth-year pharmacy student Tahnee Marginean and alumni Thomas Rowe, '99, and Gordon Tweit, '52, are among the winners of this years Washington State Pharmacy Association awards. Read WSPA announcement

Celebrating American Pharmacists Month

This month, pharmacy students are launching an educational campaign encouraging people to get to know their pharmacists and medicines better. Part of the goal of their efforts, said one student, is to start to change the public perception of pharmacists. Read U Week article

Sullivan to co-PI Cancer Research Project

Professor of Pharmacy Sean Sullivan is among four principal investigators named on a $4 million grant recently awarded to the UW through the federal stimulus package. Sullivan and his team from the School’s Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program will play a major role in the study, which seeks to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of cancer diagnostics. Read Business Journal article. Read press release.

School Research on KING 5

The Department of Pharmacy's Annie Lam was recently featured on the Seattle evening news to talk about research she is conducting in collaboration with the School of Nursing. The research is examining how "talking pill bottles" might improve the health, safety and health literacy of certain patients taking medications. Watch KING 5 news segment, Read previous U Week article.

Dr. Hu Part of $10 Million Research Grant

Professor of Pharmaceutics Shiu-Lok Hu is collaborating with researchers from the University of Massachusetts and New York University on a study to assess a vaccine designed to prevent HIV infection. The project was recently funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases HIV Vaccine Research and Design grant program. Read University of Massachusetts press release.

Finding A Calling While on the Links

Pharmacy student Joe Finley found his calling as a future pharmacist in an unlikely place — on the golf course. As a member of the golf team at Spokane Falls Community College, he became interested in the profession after playing golf with a number of hospital pharmacists. The second-year student, who has a northwest men’s golf championship under his belt, is profiled on the Community Colleges of Spokane Web site. Read profile of Finley here.

Alumnus Featured in Seattle Times

Pharmacy owner Jack Cordova, '50, is retiring at the end of the month, closing up shop at a generations-old mainstay of Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. Read Seattle Times cover story.

Remembering Alain Huitric

The School lost an important trailblazer and good friend when Professor Emeritus of Medicinal Chemistry Alain C. Huitric passed away last month. Here, Bill Trager, himself a professor emeritus of medicinal chemistry and former chair of that department, remembers his mentor. Read tribute

Stimulus Package Reaches School of Pharmacy

Almost 100 UW projects have recently received funding as a result of the federal stimulus act President Barack Obama signed in February. The UW's total awards are currently estimated at $38.3 million. Among the recipients of this funding is Kenneth Thummel, chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics. Read University Week Article

UW Honored at AACP Meeting

Faculty, students and alumni from the University of Washington had an impressive showing at the recent American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy annual meeting in Boston. Read more

Op-ed: Pharmacists Important to Health Care Reform

In a guest column in the Bellingham Herald, Don Downing, clinical professor of pharmacy, and Peggy Odegard, associate professor of pharmacy, write: "Pharmacists make an essential contribution to improving health outcomes and improving medication safety. It is time for the health care paradigm to shift to a model fully recognizing and integrating their broad expertise." Read Bellingham Herald column

Baillie and McCune Accept Honors

School of Pharmacy Dean Thomas Baillie was honored for lifetime achievement by the International Isotope Society and Associate Professor Jeannine McCune will serve on a National Institutes of Health scientific review panel.Read U Week article

Distinguished Alum Profiled in Colors NW

Recently honored with the 2008 UW School of Pharmacy’s Distinguished Alumnus in Pharmacy Practice award, Herb Tsuchiya’s journey to success hasn’t been easy. Born during the Great Depression - and named after the president of the time, Herbert Hoover - Tsuchiya is the seventh child of Japanese immigrants. Read his life story here.

Groundbreaking Technology Goes Commercial

Pharmaceutics Ph.D. Candidate John Hoekman and Professor Rodney Ho have signed a license to commercialize a technology they co-invented in the School of Pharmacy. Hoekman, Ho and a business partner recently created a start-up company to develop this technology -- an intranasal drug-delivery device that bypasses the blood-brain barrier to treat central nervous system diseases. Read press release (pdf), Read 2008 article about Impel

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