Pharmaceutical Sciences News

The University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (UB SPPS) welcomed Anna Schwendeman, PhD, H.W. Vahlteich Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan as our 2024 David Chu Lecturer on April 11.

Jason Sprowl, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the foundation’s most prestigious honor for early-career faculty. He is the only non-engineering faculty member to receive this in 2024 at UB.

A special edition of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences was recently dedicated to William Jusko, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor, pharmaceutical sciences. The edition honors and recognizes his long-term contributions to the advancement of the pharmaceutical sciences, including his work in the evolution of PK-PD modeling, and his 40-year leadership of significant advances in theoretical and applied pharmacometrics. These advances have provided a foundational framework for the study and understanding of drug exposure-response relationships.

Mina Nakhla, PhD student at the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SPPS), was awarded a UB Presidential Fellowship in spring 2023.

Robert Bies, PharmD, PhD, professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been appointed associate dean for Graduate Education, effective September 1.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review has appointed Sukyung Woo, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, to serve as a member of its Drug Discovery and Molecular Pharmacology C (DMPC) Study Section.