Morris named SUNY Distinguished Professor

SUNY Distinguished Professor.

Published May 24, 2016 This content is archived.

Innovative research and teaching, and extraordinary community service has propelled Marilyn E. Morris, professor and vice chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, into the ranks of SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty achievement in the SUNY system.

“The SUNY distinguished faculty are truly the best of the best. Through innovative instruction, unique research opportunities and engaging applied learning opportunities, they deliver a top-quality higher education for our students that is second to none. ”
Nancy L. Zimpher, SUNY Chancellor

A UB faculty member since 1985, Morris is one of the world’s pre-eminent scholars in the areas of drug membrane transport, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. She is widely recognized for her groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of dietary flavonoids in drug interaction and drug resistance — research with enormous implications for patient care and drug therapy, particularly in the treatment of cancer.

Currently interim chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Morris also has served as associate dean of the Graduate School. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Francis Dudley Meyer Award for Breast Cancer Research from the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists’ Innovation in Biotechnology Award and the 2013 Alumni of Distinction Award from the University of Manitoba.

Morris is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, for which she is also past president. She is a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Advisory Panel for Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and was elected a member of the executive committee of the Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences for the International Pharmaceutical Federation.

She earned a doctorate in pharmaceutics from UB, a master’s degree in pharmacology from the University of Ottawa and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Manitoba.