Mukhopadhyay Wins Research Excellence Award

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September 10, 2020
Associate Professor Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. wins the 2020 Co-op Research Excellence Award for Best Paper. The awards are presented each year by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Co-operative Society.

Richburg Receives NIH Grant Award for Toxicant Injury Research

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August 10, 2020
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies John H. Richburg, Ph.D. received notice from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarding him a research grant for a five-year term. The NIH’s grant award for Dr. Richburg’s research totals $2,694,316.

Dry Powder Inhalation Could Be a Potent Tool in COVID-19 Antiviral Treatment

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July 28, 2020
Researchers in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, led by Robert O. (Bill) Williams III, plan to use their novel thin-film-freezing technology to deliver remdesivir through dry powder inhalation, potentially making COVID-19 antiviral treatment more potent, easier to administer, and more broadly available.

UT 3D Printing Labs Enter Patent License Agreement to Develop Digital 3D Drug Manufacturing and Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

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July 17, 2020
Assistant Professor Mo Maniruzzaman’s Pharmaceutical Engineering and 3D Printing (PharmE3D) labs have entered an agreement with UK-based CoM3D to develop digital 3D drug manufacturing and advanced drug delivery systems.

National Pharmacy Organizations Unite to Take a Stand Against Racial Injustice

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June 26, 2020
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) releases a message from national pharmacy associations to take a stand against racial injustice.

UT Pharmacy Students Excel at AMCP

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May 5, 2020
UT College of Pharmacy students Waverly Yang and Shiyu (Serene) Zhang took top prizes at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation’s eLearning Days. The web-based poster hall took place April 20-24, 2020 and showcased 125 posters that were to be presented at the AMCP 2020 Annual Meeting.

Virtual Research Day 2020

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April 30, 2020
Despite social distancing, researchers were still able to participate in the 16th Annual Louis C. Littlefield Celebrating Pharmacy Research Excellence Day. Lectures, poster presentations, and abstracts were presented remotely to virtual attendees. See which abstracts took top awards during the online event.

Maniruzzaman Lab Collaboration Works to Develop Patient-Focused Medicines More Efficiently

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April 27, 2020
To meet the need to develop methods to make drugs more soluble and usable, the Maniruzzaman Lab teamed up with Advanced Material Development (AMD) to address challenges with the reduction in quantity of new drugs coming to market.

Research Day 2020

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April 15, 2020
The 16th annual Celebrating Pharmacy Research Excellence Day (CPRED) in person event was cancelled this year. In response, an asynchronous “virtual” web-based CPRED event was developed to allow us to celebrate the outstanding research performed over the last year by our College of Pharmacy research community, despite the fact that most of us are quarantined at home.

3D-Printing Project Aims to Meet UT Community’s PPE Needs

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April 8, 2020
Mo Maniruzzaman‘s Pharmaceutical Engineering and 3D Printing (PharmE3D) Lab is 3D-printing face shields to meet PPE demands at UT health institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.